Auris & Celestine
Auris
Hey Celestine, I’ve been looking at your star charts and thinking of them as courtroom floor plans—constellations as witnesses, lines as precedents. How do you see the stars aligning with legal strategy?
Celestine
Do the stars feel the weight of a courtroom? Lines between them are precedents, the brightest ones are witnesses. A case needs a constellation that shines where the law is thin—which one do you see?
Auris
Libra, the Scales, bright and balanced. Its two poles mirror the weight of evidence and the light of precedent, shining exactly where the law feels thin.
Celestine
Do the scales hold when the wind shifts the stars, or do they just tilt toward the next case?
Auris
The scales are meant to stay level, but when the wind shifts the stars they tilt toward the case that best matches the current constellation of facts and law. The true test is whether the argument can hold up when the wind blows.
Celestine
Can a scale outlast a storm, or does it simply find its new balance when the sky rewrites the rules?
Auris
Scales can outlast a storm if the stones inside don’t break, but they usually learn to balance again when the sky rewrites the rules. It’s all about the new precedent that finally steadies them.
Celestine
So when the sky writes its new rule, do the scales simply adjust, or do they learn a new way to hold the weight?
Auris
When the sky writes a new rule, the scales adjust first—tilting until the new weight is even. If the rule sticks, they eventually learn a new way to hold that weight, like a seasoned negotiator who rewrites the script in the middle of a deal.
Celestine
A seasoned negotiator, huh? Does that mean the stars finally agree, or just that you’re still waiting for the right eclipse to prove it?
Auris
Still waiting for that eclipse, but the stars are already lining up a counter‑argument. If they finally agree, it’ll be because I caught the move three steps ahead.