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Usagi
This shrine to Tsukino Usagi appears in acknowledgment of the work of all Life towards its individual and synthetic goal. As a symbol of the divine principle of Love, Usagi acts in the world of appearance. From the heart of compassion Usagi acts out her varied roles as a personality, a soul incarnate, and a divine ray of Life, an agent of the Tao, the centre reaching between Spirit and Mother Matter. In many of us who watch, she evokes true Love, a quality of which a friend writes:
Love is not possessive. To love is to give; love is a radiation, a sending forth from the heart of a sweet essence which heals.Certainly Usagi fits this description on (almost) all occasions... well, on all crucial occasions! As the perfected master of her self (Neo-Queen Serenity, the acclaimed ruler of the world -- her environment) Usagi-sama has certainly achieved this detachment from possessive expectation. We have not seen very much of Usagi-sama in her perfected form... Naoko-sensei chooses to give us predominantly the aspiring Usagi who struggles to act on behalf of justice and love with as-yet imperfect tools in a world given up by many people as hopelessly imbalanced and unsalvageable. Usagi has hope. Usagi has deep motive to act on her hope, a motive mainly grounded not in her training but in her inherent quality of love. All of us possess this quality; not all of us are yet as successful at ex-pressing it as is the beautiful Usagi. I love Usagi because she has profound sincerity and the unusual ability to hold simultaneously both the simple, abstract reality and the immediate, specific moment. Usagi does not think about how to act; she just does as is demanded by her character.
I have given, here, my own appraisal of the myth of Sailor Moon, from the perspective of two of her closest allies: her guardian, Luna, and her lover, Endymion. While Luna primarily approaches Sailor Moon's crises with the intellect, the objective analytical mind, Mamoru/Endymion approaches them predominantly with the subjective compassion of the heart. Certainly both love Usagi unconditionally, and both appreciate her intellectually, I notice that each tends toward opposite poles of that spectrum in striving to help Sailor Moon's mission. Because I believe both are completely valid, essential, and intertwined vantages for appreciating life, I choose to give voice to both, under the pen of both Endymion and Luna. Endymion's pen tends to see Usagi's radiance in the subjective, involving realm of emotional movement. Luna's tends to perceive from the vantage of a scholar and historian Sailor Moon's significance to humanity's evolution.