Astro Beast

In a similar spirit to the Name Anagram and Dream beasts, I challenged myself to throw together a beast based on my personal astrological mix. I stuck to the Western Tropical and the eastern 8-pole systems, since they were the ones I'd been exposed to first. I loosely arranged the parts according to the sign-on-House system (an animal or thing associated with a sign determining the bits that make up the body part associated with the House it's rules, i.e leo on House 2 = leonine lower jaw & neck, Libra on House 3 = Swan-wing/feet X ornate scale-yoke forelimbs). The eastern mix is mostly in the facial features, neck and tail, and I took a little bit of license throwing in an asteroid & fixed star influence or two. I referred to both eastern & western placements for the colours.

So here she is, under an ageing sun, resting in the desert scrub plains of northern Greenland, somewhere in the far distant future.

The mix: Prawn upper head, rat whiskers (eastern), ape brow ridges & nose (eastern), horse mane, lioness lower-jaw & neck, tiger neck stripes (eastern), goat beard (eastern), Racoon mask & terrier moustache (star Procyon), blackberry branchlets (venus placement), sheep/goat horns (eastern) curved into bovine-horn shape (MC/Rahu), eagle crest, horse ears, mane & back, fish/eagle eyes, eagle/vulture chest, cow's knees, swan wing/ornate scale-yoke forelimbs (steel yoke due to venus placement), swan forefeet, eagle talons, goat flanks, snake belly-scales, fish back-fins & lateral-line, sheep haunches, parrot pasterns, ankles & feet, hunting-dog body frame (star Sirius-ascendant), Anubis resting pose (asteroid anubis-ascendant), lion/bovine/scorpion tail, tiger/leopard tail markings (eastern month sign & lunar mansion).

Fineliner pen, coloured pencils, felt-tips, correction pen & Photoshop 2. I could offer something like this and/or the other two as a personalized prize option when my next Kiriban comes arond.