Vulcan Horoscope

Fanwork
Title:	Vulcan Horoscope
Creator:	Marian Flanders
Date(s):	1994
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Fandom:	Star Trek: TOS
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Vulcan Horoscope is a fanwork by Marian Flanders.

It was printed in KaleidoScope #2.

Reactions and Reviews

1995

Fascinating. Several new words and some lovely ' Vulcan characters for our 'dictionary.' Now wouldn't it be fun if someone who knows something about astrology would do a horoscope or an astrological reading or whatever its called for both Kirk and Spock.

An interesting look at Vulcan astrology. Vulcan astrology?? Yep. Marian neatly side-steps the immediate objection to such an illogical pursuit by informing us that, of course, this horoscope stems from Pre-Reform time.

The symbols are lovely, graceful, and so authentic looking they could have come straight off Spock's mediation robe. One could expect ancient Vulcan society to see a t'favron or lirpa or le'matya in the stars, and I liked the use of words that have long standing meaning in the Trek and K/S universe. But a constellation named for plomeek? I always imagined the stuff to taste foul to human taste buds, but Vulcans obviously regard it as comforting as chicken soup, so why not?

The only term I wasn't familiar with was "koveet." I'd be interested in knowing whether this was coined particularly for this piece or if it, too, is from early Trek lit.

Turns out my sign is the sehlat, a lumbering bear-like creature with long tusks. It figures.