The galactian alignment system was created for non-binary people to describe their gender without having to use binary terms such as 'masculine' or 'woman-aligned'. Not all non-binary people use the galactian alignment system.
The theme of space used in the galactian system is because space is genderless, but aspects of it are often personified to have gender for artistic, religious, or cultural reasons. Non-binary people have also historically been associated with space. This is not to be confused with the celestial system or xenogenders, as the galactian alignment system used the theme of space only as a naming scheme.
The Galactian Genders
- Aurorian: Fluid between alignments.
- Lunarian: Feminine aligned.
- Solarian: Masculine aligned.
- Singularian: Rejecting all ties to any alignment.
- Stellarian: Unaligned.
Combination Alignments:
- Eclipsian: Lunarian and solarian.
- Galaxian: Lunarian, solarian, and stellarian.
- Nebularian: Lunarian and stellarian.
- Novarian: Solarian and stellarian.
Demi-Alignments:
- Celestian: Partly stellarian.
- Constellian: Partly galaxian.
- Dawnian: Partly solarian.
- Duskian: Partly lunarian.
- Equinoxian: Partly nebularian.
- Solstian: Partly novarian.
- Twilightian: Partly eclipsian.
History
The terms used in the galactian alignment system were coined in August and September of 2016 on a Discord server with several Tumblr users. Around the same time Tumblr users Nonbinary-sapphic and Vergess made a post explaining the galactian system[1]. The combinations of the main three terms, stellarian, solarian, and lunarian, were soon coined after that.
The term singularian was later coined in March, 2017 by Tumblr user Stellunarian[2].
The system was later expanded by System-Lgbt on July 25, 2018[3], to include more demigender versions of the alignments. Terms added include: twilightian, equinoxian, solstian, constellian and aurorian. They also created updated flags for dawnian, duskian, and celestian.