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=== Celestial Diagrams ===
Listed alongside Healdic and Argumentative approaches as a kind of complex diagram.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":4" />

Can involve literally celestial elements, such as sun, moon, stars, and zodiac signs.<ref name=":4">“Basic shamanism, elementalism, and simple actions.  If you wanted to knock a door down or set someone on fire, this would do.  From here, we can branch out…”

He hit the button again.  The diagram divided into three.  The top one looked like it was built into a diagram of sun, moon, and stars, with zodiac signs littering the area around it.  The bottom left one had a circle with a hieroglyph-like bird set within it, and writing in something like latin around the rim.  The bottom right one had a wave-like motif, and a symbol in the middle that looked like the decoration on the point of a fancy crown.

“Into other, complex types.  You’ll learn these approaches after.  We call them the celestial, argumentative, and heraldic approaches, but that won’t be on the test.  You can use any you want, but one type is probably best for your purposes, and if you want to do something very specific and very big, then you may find something like the standard diagram is unnecessarily complex, compared to going out and learning another type of diagram.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/05/leaving-a-mark-4-6/ excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.6]]</ref> Sometimes involves the usage of [[Runes#Sun, Moon, and Stars|Sun, Moon, and Stars runes]] for coordinates, and may require light from the literal astronomical bodies as part of that.<ref>The sun, moon, and stars were often coordinates for diagrams and rituals.  That got into celestial practices and the more intricate timings, processes, and programming language type stuff that went into the ''really'' advanced magic circles.  The coordinates would let a diagram point to a very specific time, place, and effect, for summoning specific, dangerous things, or referencing other realities. [...] 

The orrey felt like a diagram in brass, wire, and mirrors.  A central fixture absorbed the light from above, that light was refracted down.  The goal wasn’t to give coordinates to something predetermined.  The goal was to ''set the'' coordinates.

To actually take this place that Thea was building and put it on the map.  The fact that the orrey could ‘see’ the real noontime sun, nighttime moon and stars mattered.  Later, it would let other practices use celestial runes and settings to target the world.  Thea could hitch other practices to it or build doors. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/11/23/playing-a-part-15-8/ excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.8]]</ref>

May simply refer to diagrams which employ the more complex and self-referential [[Runes]] - the [[Runes#Sun, Moon, and Stars|Sun/Moon/Stars]] coordinate system, the [[Runes#Imperative|Imperative]] and [[Runes#Referential|Referential]] astrological symbols, and possibly [[Runes#Degrees of Emphasis|Degrees of Emphasis]].