The Last of Us Season 2 Fates: Joel, Ellie, and Abby's Endings Read Through a Revenge-Cycle Lens | BgRemovit
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The Last of Us Season 2 Fates: Joel, Ellie, and Abby's Endings Read Through a Revenge-Cycle Lens
Why did Ellie's revenge spiral end in ash? We analyze The Last of Us Season 2 endings for Joel, Ellie, and Abby using the Japanese Daisakkai calamity cycle.
The HBO Season 2 finale of The Last of Us left audiences staring at their screens in stunned, exhausted silence. The discourse surrounding the brutal climax in Seattle has been predictably dominated by Western moral frameworks: debates over who was "justified," who is the true villain, and the overarching futility of revenge. But treating this narrative as a simple chain of psychological consequences misses the cosmic machinery operating beneath the bloodstains.
Read through the lens of what Six Star Astrology actually is, the tragedy of Season 2 isn't just a series of bad choices made by traumatized survivors—it is a mathematically predictable fate. The full system Kazuko Hosoki built does not care about your moral high ground; it cares about your karmic timing. In this Eastern deterministic framework, character is destiny, and destiny operates on a strict 12-year clock.
Let's look at the data of this "MARS-TYPE CALAMITY". "Ellie's 3-Year Revenge Spiral" is a textbook manifestation of a "MARS" type—known in the system as the "FEELING HUMAN"—entering "DAISAKKAI" (the Great Calamity). When a Mars-type crosses into this window, their "Vengeance Drive 89%" overrides everything, while "Self-Preservation 11%" becomes a statistical afterthought. The descent is rigid and unavoidable: the "SHADOW PHASE" begins with her "Jackson Departure", the "HALT PHASE" manifests as "Seattle Bloodshed", and finally, the "DECLINE PHASE" leaves nothing but "Santa Barbara Ash". It is, in every sense, "A textbook descent into the Great Calamity."
Joel's Polarity Collapse: The Jupiter-Type's Karmic Debt
Fans treat the golf club scene as a shocking plot twist. Astrologically, it was an overdue invoice. Joel is a classic Jupiter-type: fiercely protective, stubbornly rooted in chosen family, and a notorious late bloomer who only found his true purpose in his fifties. Jupiterians are associated with wood, roots, slow growth, and an absolute refusal to let go once they have finally planted themselves.
But the universe demands balance. Map his "JUPITER-TYPE POLARITY COLLAPSE" and the math becomes terrifyingly clear. "2033: Outbreak (Seed Phase)" birthed his survivalist persona, stripping away his old life and forcing a brutal reset. Exactly twenty years later, "2053: Salt Lake Hospital (Shadow)" was the massive karmic debt he incurred by playing god and slaughtering the Fireflies. By the time he reached "2058: Jackson Cabin (Polarity Collapse)", his chart had simply run out of road.
"Joel's karmic debt timeline mapped to the 12-year cycle" reveals that his so-called "Stability" years in Jackson were nothing more than a borrowed grace period. A polarity collapse occurs when accumulated negative karma in a shadow phase suddenly manifests physically. He didn't die because he trusted the wrong strangers on patrol; he died because a Jupiter-type cannot outrun a 20-year karmic deficit.
Ellie's Descent: The Mars-Type in Daisakkai
Mars-types do not process grief; they weaponize it. As "Feeling Humans," they are chaotic, artistic, deeply loyal, but entirely driven by emotional logic. When a Mars-type is in their 'Bloom' phase, they are fiercely loving—think of Ellie's tender moments in Jackson with Dina. But when a 19-year-old Mars-type crosses into the Daisakkai / Great Calamity Period, that exact same emotional depth turns into a suffocating, blinding obsession.
Her three days in the Pacific Northwest map perfectly to the three stages of ruin. On "Seattle Day 1", the "Shadow Phase begins." She is still capable of banter, still somewhat tethered to reality, but the darkness is setting in. By "Seattle Day 2", the "Halt Phase isolates the host." This is where the trauma fragments her psyche, cutting her off emotionally from Dina and physically from Tommy. Finally, on "Seattle Day 3", the "Decline Phase consumes everything."
She doesn't just lose her friends; she actively immolates her own soul to keep the fire burning. The Daisakkai doesn't force you to make bad decisions—it simply removes the internal friction that would normally stop you from destroying yourself.
Abby's Saturnian Pivot: The Seed Phase
Here is the bitter pill most viewers refuse to swallow: while Ellie is plummeting, Abby is ascending. Abby operates as a pure Saturnian. In Hosoki's framework, "Saturnian Idealism demands strict justice"—an eye for an eye, measured, exact, and devoid of chaotic passion. For Abby, "The Salt Lake revenge fulfilled her karmic debt." The execution in the lodge wasn't the start of her story; it was the grim conclusion of her own prior calamity cycle.
When we catch up with her in the WLF stadium, she isn't falling apart; she is waking up. "Seattle Day 1 marks the Seed Phase" for her chart. The Seed Phase is notoriously painful because it requires shedding the past to plant new roots. By abandoning her military faction to save a Seraphite child, she resets her cosmic clock.
"Protecting Lev begins a new 12-year cycle." While Ellie is dragging herself deeper into the underworld, Abby is climbing toward the light of the Firefly radio tower. The 12-year cycle dictates that one person's winter is always another's spring.
Collateral Orbits: Venus and Uranus Dragged Down
The true horror of a Great Calamity is its blast radius. You cannot stand next to a collapsing star without catching fire. These were "COLLATERAL ORBITS", with "Venus and Uranus Dragged Down" by a Mars-type's immense gravity. If you look at compatibility by star type, the tragic friction in Ellie's strike team was obvious before they even left Wyoming.
Look at the victims: "Dina: Venusian Peace Seeker", desperate to build a home, cultivate life, and find harmony. Beside her stood "Jesse: Uranian Realist", loyal to the practical needs of the tribe, a man who acts on logic rather than grand emotional vendettas.
Their charts were entirely incompatible with a vengeance quest. A Venusian cannot thrive in a warzone, and a Uranian cannot rationalize a suicide mission. The inevitable result? The "Jackson Community Fractured", leaving Venus bleeding and Uranus dead on a theater floor. They were the collateral damage of a Mars-type refusing to sit still during her Halt phase.
Escaping the Cycle
We like to think we are entirely in control of our actions, that if placed in the post-apocalypse, we wouldn't make the same apocalyptic mistakes Ellie did. But cycles of fortune and calamity are indifferent to our intentions. When your Halt phase arrives, it will strip away your illusions just as violently.
You don't need a cordyceps outbreak to experience a polarity collapse. You just need bad timing and a refusal to read the room of your own life. If you want to know what phase of the cycle you are currently navigating—and whether you're building a home or walking into a theater you won't walk out of—find your own Six Star destiny chart before your own shadow phase begins. The cycle continues whether you believe in it or not; the only advantage is knowing what time it is.
