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The Celestial System (Expansion Explained)

Alright.

The original Celestial System Expansion was deleted as per the wishes of @juparian, but people have been requesting explanations for the flags and their meanings anyway, which tells me the expansion is still gaining traction despite me saying (rather quietly) that I deleted it.

So as I put this out please note that using these flags and terms aren’t approved by them, and are 100% my coinage. I’d really like if you guys used their terms and flags if you can, instead of mine, because the idea is originally theirs and I can’t say that it was the best idea in the world for me to try and expand on it. I’ll say I did ask several times if I could expand the idea, across several months, but never received a response, and promptly made and then posted the expansion anyway. That was a douche move. Not even gonna make an excuse, it was a rude thing to do.

But anyway.

If you want you can just treat my expansion like a completely different thing? I don’t know how people are taking it now, I don’t receive notes for that post at all because it’s, well, gone. At the very least please nod to juparian for coming up with the original idea and they probably don’t want you using my ‘replacement’ flags. Throwing that out there for now. But if you really do like and want to use them, that’s fine I guess. Just be respectful.

That disclaimer out of the way here’s the ORIGINAL Celestial System and its flags/definitions.

JUPARIAN - A nonbinary gender that is linked to softer celestial masculine energy.It is never hyper masculine and it’s not male-aligned nonbinary, but instead is simply linked. Someone who is juparian can feel different amounts of masculine energy at different times.

LUNETTIAN - A nonbinary gender that is linked to softer celestial feminine energy.It is never hyper feminine and it’s not female-aligned nonbinary, but instead is simply linked. Someone who is lunettian can feel different amounts of feminine energy at different times.

MERCURIAN - A nonbinary gender that is connected to a softer celestial energy. This energy can feel “gendered”, but is neither masculine or feminine. Someone who is Mercurian can also be “void” of gender itself.

SATURNIAN - A nonbinary gender that is linked to both softer celestial masculine and feminine energy. Like the others it is not masculine/feminine aligned, simply linked. And the amount of energy one feels can vary and change. (also spelled Saturnarian, I’ve seen)

NEPTUNIAN - A nonbinary gender that is linked to the void and fluctuates with softer celestial masculine energy.

VENUSIAN - A nonbinary gender that is linked to the void and fluctuates with softer celestial feminine energy.

CELESTARIAN - A gender that is a combination of juparian, lunettian, and mercurian. Someone who is celestarian can be fluid between all three/feel different amounts of each at different times.

MERLUNETTIAN - Someone who is both and/or between lunettian and mercurian.

MERJUPARIAN - Someone who is both and/or fluid between juparian and mercurian.

JUPARETTIAN - Someone who is both and/or fluid between juparian and lunettian.

Starfluid was actually coined by someone else entirely, but it was basically ‘to be fluid between the celestial genders.’ I think that’s actually just a fluid version of Stargender, which is a completely different concept altogether and has nothing to do with the Celestial System whatsoever. I don’t know why it’s on the original graphic but that graphic is wrong anyway.

Now for my additions, which once again, are not official nor approved, so be respectful if you do want to use them.

JUPARIAN - A nonbinary gender that is linked to softer celestial masculine energy. It is never hyper masculine and it’s not male-aligned nonbinary, but instead is simply linked. Someone who is juparian can feel different amounts of masculine energy at different times. Colors are based off of the planet Jupiter.

LUNETTIAN - A nonbinary gender that is linked to softer celestial feminine energy. It is never hyper feminine and it’s not female-aligned nonbinary, but instead is simply linked. Someone who is lunettian can feel different amounts of feminine energy at different times. Colors are based off of Earth’s moon.

MERCURIAN - A nonbinary gender that is connected to a softer celestial energy. This energy can feel “gendered”, but is neither masculine or feminine. The colors are based off of the planet Mercury. (This definition is wrong.)

NEPTUNIAN - Someone who is both and/or fluid between juparian and mercurian. The colors are based off of the planet Neptune. (This definition is wrong.)

VENUSIAN - Someone who is both and/or fluid between juparian and lunettian. The colors are based off of the planet Venus. (This definition is wrong.)

SATURNIAN - Someone who is both and/or between lunettian and mercurian. The colors are based off of the planet Saturn. (This definition is wrong.)

CELESTARIAN - A gender that is a combination of juparian, lunettian, and mercurian. The colors are based off of the colors stars twinkle at night.

KUIPERIAN - A gender that is fluid between multiple soft celestial energies. The colors are based off of nebulae. The name is based off of the Kuiper Belt, which has thousands of unique and different asteroids, like all the unique genders one can experience.

PLUTOIAN - A gender that is filled with the energy of the void. Someone who is Plutoian can also be “void” of gender itself, or uncertain of their celestial energy. It’s also for those who have no celestial energy, or whose celestial energy is like that of a black hole or a gap, the absence of all, but still having celestial energy. The colors are based off of the dwarf planet Pluto. This is also called Plutian. (Think of this one as agender, gendervoid, neutral, nullgender or quoigender. Plutoian+some other type of energy can count as a form of demigender.)

CERESIAN - A gender that is both plutoian and lunettian. The colors are based off of the dwarf planet Ceres. (Think of this as demi-lunettian.)

SONNIAN - A gender that is both juparian and plutoian. The colors are based off of the sun’s ‘type’ in the star spectrum. (The sun is a main sequence yellow dwarf star.) (Think of this as demi-juparian.) This is also called Sonnean.

OURANIAN - A gender that is both plutoian and mercurian. The colors are based off of the planet Uranus. (Think of this as demi-mercurian.) The name is based off of the god Ouranos, which is what Uranus’s name is also based from. (Pronounced ore-ayn-ian)

TERRAEAN - A gender that is juparian, lunettian and plutoian. The colors are based off of the planet Earth. The name is based off of Terra, which is the Latin word for Earth (also spelled Terre or Terrae). (Think of this as demi-juparettian or demi-saturnian.) (Pronounced terr-ae-un) This is also called Terrean or Terran.

MARSEAN - A gender that is juparian, mercurian and plutoian. The colors are based off of the planet Mars. (Think of this as demi-merjuparian or demi-neptunian).

ERISIAN - A gender that is lunettian, mercurian and plutoian. The colors are based off of the dwarf planet Eris. (Think of this as demi-merlunettian or demi-venusian).

ASTEROIDIAN - A gender that is lunettian, mercurian, juparian and plutoian. The colors are based off of meteors as they enter the atmosphere. (Think of this as demi-celestarian). This can also be called Asterian.

The graph now looks like this.

Here it is with gender symbols for easier recognition.

In case it was complicated or the images aren’t loading:

Juparian = masc Lunettian = fem Mercurian = neither but still gendered (nonbinary) Plutoian = agender/gendervoid/demi- Venusian = fem+nonbinary Saturnian = masc+fem Celestarian = masc+fem+nonbinary Neptunian = masc+nonbinary Sonnean = demi-masc Terraean = demi-(masc+fem) Ceresian = demi-fem Erisian = demi-(fem+nonbinary) Ouranian = demi-nonbinary Asteroidian = demi-(masc+fem+nonbinary) Kuiperian = fluid between energies

I’m gonna say it again: This design is based off of juparian’s concept, and is not approved by them. If you use this one, make it clear it isn’t theirs but mine, and show respect to juparian by using their idea first, if their terms/flags fit you.

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5 months ago