Achernar ✴ (0.50 Magnitude) ✴ Alpha Eridani ✴ Eridanus Constellation ✴ Arabic: “the end of the river” ✴ Jupiter
This star gives success in civil service and in matters of religion. It portends happiness and success. It gives one a philosophical nature. It promises public honors, advancement, and a high moral nature.
Aculeus ✴ (5.3 Magnitude) ✴ M6 Scorpii ✴ Scorpius Constellation ✴ Latin: “sharp-pointed stinger” ✴ Mars/Moon
It negatively impacts eyesight and can cause blindness or corrupt the eyesight if one of the luminaries is afflicted and at the same time conjunct or even opposite this star. It also can give a person great vitality, energy, and leadership ability.
Acumen ✴ (3.2 Magnitude) ✴ M7 Scorpii ✴ Latin: “Sharpness” ✴ Scorpius Constellation ✴ Mars/Moon
A companion star of Aculeus and bearing the same nature. It corrupts the eyesight when the luminaries are in conjunction with it. It can also grant leadership ability, unpopularity with the public, and illness in general.
Acrux ✴ (1.33 Magnitude) ✴ Alpha Crucis ✴ Crux Constellation ✴ Name is an Americanized version of “Alpha Crucis” ✴ Jupiter
It gives an inclination to the occult and magic. It is often prominent in the charts
of astrologers. It gives an insatiable desire to learn and to expand one’s horizons through travel and religion. It provides a humanitarian instinct and a desire for social justice. It can also provide the wrong religious beliefs.
Adhafera ✴ (3.6 Magnitude) ✴ Zeta Leonis ✴ Leo Constellation ✴ Arabic: “The Braid” ✴ Saturn/Mercury
It has also been called Al Serpha, meaning “the Funeral Pyre.” It is associated with suicide, poison, corrosive acids, liquid explosives, lying, stealing, and crime. If rising, it can bestow military advancement and wealth.
Agena (Hadar) ✴ (0.60 Magnitude) ✴ Beta Centauri ✴ Centaurus Constellation ✴ Latin: “Knee” ✴ Venus/Jupiter
It bestows friendship, advancement in life, a high moral standard, health, and honors. When rising, it can be a promise of happiness and success.
Alcyone ✴ (2.90 Magnitude) ✴ Eta Tauri ✴ Taurus Constellation ✴ Moon/Mars ✴ Behenian
The brightest star within the Pleiades. She creates the desire for love, but does not bode well in romantic relationships. This star can indicate many disappointments. It can create blindness, accidents to the face, and fevers. Though this star is more positive than her sisters, in general, the Pleiades is a malefic cluster of stars.
Aldebaran ✴ (0.85 Magnitude) ✴ Alpha Tauri ✴ Taurus Constellation ✴ Arabic: “The Follower” ✴ Mars ✴ Royal & Behenian
One of the four Royal Stars or Watchers of the Heavens, along with Regulus, Antares, and Fomalhaut. It was once the Watcher of the East, and marked the Vernal Equinox. It gives honor, intelligence, eloquence, steadfastness, integrity, popularity, courage, ferocity, rebelliousness against the government, and public prestige. While it can create wealth, it may not give long-lasting financial security. There could also be the danger of violence and sickness. If conjunct the asc or the Sun in a nativity, it gives extraordinary energy with which the native will be able to attain leadership positions in society.
Algol ✴ (2.12 Magnitude) ✴ Beta Persei ✴ Perseus Constellation ✴ Arabic: “Head of the Ogre” ✴ Saturn/Jupiter ✴ Behenian
The head of Medusa, the Gorgon who was slayed by Perseus. The Chinese consider it to represent “Piled Up Corpses.” It brings misfortune, violence, decapitation, hanging, electrocution and mob violence, and gives a person a violent nature. It is often of a disastrous influence. It represents brutality, especially when with Mars or Saturn. It can bestow extreme mental or physical power. However, it is also associated with mass vandalism, riots, fanaticism, tragedies, and ruthlessness. It can bring about forced changes.
Algorab ✴ (2.95 Magnitude) ✴ Delta Corvi ✴ Corvus Constellation ✴ Arabic: “The Crow” ✴ Mars/Saturn ✴ Behenian
It gives a destructive nature, evil, repulsiveness, and lying. It has a natural association with scavenging. In natal astrology, it bestows a charming nature. The native can have success in business or things having to do with government matters. It can also create hindrances, delays, and losses.
Alhena ✴ (1.90 Magnitude) ✴ Gamma Geminorum ✴ Gemini Constellation ✴ Arabic: “The Brand (on the neck of a camel)” ✴ Mercury/Venus
It creates a lovable person with a refined sense of art. It can bestow artistic talent, wealth, and public prestige. It also can give someone a sharp mind and a love of comfort. It represents injuries and afflictions to the body. It can specifically represent an injury to the Achilles tendon.
Alkaid ✴ (1.86 Magnitude) ✴ Magnitude ✴ Eta Ursae Majoris ✴ Ursa Major Constellation ✴ Arabic: “The Leader” ✴ Jupiter
It bestows creativity, success in business and government affairs, and a fondness for power in general. It can make one victorious over one’s enemies and grant good fortune. If emphasized in an otherwise afflicted chart, it can create disasters, illnesses, and fanaticism. One of its names is “Benetnash”, which means “hired mourners.” It is also a star of bereavement and mourning the loss of human life. It is associated with death.
Alphard ✴ (1.98 Magnitude) ✴ Alpha Hydrae ✴ Hydra Constellation ✴ Arabic: “The Solitary One in the Snake” ✴ Saturn/ Venus
Bestows wisdom, and artistic appreciation for both music and visual art. It can give a deep understanding of human nature. It creates a passion for life and a lack of self-control. This can lead to immorality and wasteful living. It can indicate death by drowning, poison, or asphyxiation. If rising, it can create much trouble with regard to estates and physical property.
Alphecca ✴ (2.3 Magnitude) ✴ Alpha Coronae Borealis ✴ Corona Borealis Constellation ✴ Arabic: “the bright star of the broken ring of stars” ✴ Venus/Mercury ✴ Behenian
It is associated with honor, dignity, poetry, and highly refined artistic ability. It gives a liking for literature, science, and success in trade and commerce. It bestows occult prowess and the ability to heal the sick. It can also grant leadership ability. It can bring scandals, underhand dealings, betrayal, loneliness, and dishonor. It can be good for attaining the wealth of the dead in the form of legacies and inheritances.
Alpheratz ✴ (2.06 Magnitude) ✴ Alpha Andromedae ✴ Andromeda Constellation ✴ Arabic: “The navel of the Mare” ✴ Jupiter/Venus
Grants independence, a love of freedom, riches, honor, and a sharp mind. It can be a good omen in matters of love. It bestows cheerfulness, optimism, hopefulness, adaptability, and a love of life, ease, and comfort. It can make one outspoken, self-destructive, and lazy.
Altair ✴ (0.77 Magnitude) ✴ Alpha Aquilae ✴ Aquila constellation ✴ Arabic: “The Flying Eagle” ✴ Mars/Jupiter
It gives boldness, confidence, courage, and an ambitious nature. It produces great wealth that may not last. One can attain a position of authority and command under its influence. It can also lead a person to violent acts.
Antares ✴ (0.96 Magnitude) ✴ Alpha Scorpii ✴ Scorpius Constellation ✴ Greek: “anti-Ares (Rival of Mars)” ✴ Mars/Jupiter
One of the Royal Stars. It is the Watcher of the West who once marked the Autumnal Equinox. It causes destruction, evil, and life-threatening danger. It can make a person rash, stubborn, headstrong, and destructive. It also bestows a sharp mind, courage, and strategic ability. It is associated with war and prominence in war, and can be found in the charts of military personnel. It can make a person a daredevil if it is conjunct the mc, the asc, the Sun, or Jupiter. It is unfortunate to the eyes if it is conjunct the asc, Sun, or Moon.
Arcturus ✴ (0.04 Magnitude) ✴ Alpha Boötis ✴ Bootes Constellation ✴ Greek: “Guardian of the Bear” ✴ Jupiter/Mars
It is associated with riches, honors, and high recognition in society. It grants self-determination, which may also lead one to being headstrong, belligerent, and quarrelsome. It grants good fortune and the achievement of justice through one’s personal power. It can bring prosperity through travel. However, it can also lead to anxiety as a result of one’s self-undoing. There is very little different in longitude, but a large difference in latitude between Arcturus and Spica.
Asellus Borealis (Gamma Cancri )✴ (4.66 Magnitude) & Asellus Australis (Delta Cancri) ✴ (3.94 Magnitude) ✴ Cancer Constellation ✴ Latin: “The Northern & Southern Donkey Colt” ✴ Mars/Sun
The Aselli are the two asses that Bacchus and Vulcan rode on in the war between the gods and the titans. They can provide a sense of social care and responsibility. They can bestow charity and goodwill towards others. They may also be risk-takers and may put their own lives in danger. If rising, they can be dangerous for the eyes, bring injuries from beasts, or create quarrels and slander. If culminating, they may bring disgrace or ruin.
Bellatrix ✴ (1.64 Magnitude) ✴ Gamma Orionis ✴ Orion Constellation ✴ Latin: “Female Warrior” ✴ Mars/Mercury
The star bestows military advancement, but it can also bring dishonor. It can create wealth, recognition, and the possibility of ruin. Positively, it bestows quick decision-making, the realization of plans, courage, and a fighting spirit. It bestows strategic thinking, organizational skills, and discrimination. In natal astrology, if prominent in the chart of a woman, it can make her talkative and give her a high-pitched, hard, and sharp voice. It culminating, it can represent quarrels, hatred, deception, and forgery.
Betelgeuse ✴ (0.50 Magnitude) ✴ Alpha Orionis ✴ Orion Constellation ✴ Arabic: “Shoulder of the Giant” ✴ Mars/Mercury
It bestows military ability, success and wealth. If culminating, it can bring ingenuity and fortune through the military. It gives one mastery in the arts and sciences. If it is angular, luck, success, and everlasting fame are promised. In natal or mundane astrology, if it is on the asc and conjunct Mars, there could be the danger of death by lightning, fire, explosion, firearms, or something similar. In natal astrology, it can make a person rash, combative, and energetic.
Bungula ✴ (0.01 Magnitude) ✴ Alpha Centauri ✴ Latin: “Hoof” ✴ Venus/Jupiter
It is one of the nearest fixed stars to Earth and is also known as Rigel Kent (“the right foot of the Centaur”) or Toliman (“the Ostriches”). It gives friends, a refined taste, and positions of honor. It can spoil romantic relationships, particularly relationships with women. It can cause a happy relationship to be afflicted by extraordinary circumstances and ordeals.
Canopus ✴ (-0.72 Magnitude) ✴ Alpha Carinae ✴ Argo Constellation ✴ From the Greek mythological navigator, Canopus ✴ Saturn/Jupiter
It grants a deeply religious nature and a conservative outlook on life. It gives a person a wide and comprehensive knowledge and advancement in travel, higher education, and religious positions. It can transform evil into good. If culminating, it can give great success, fame, wealth, public recognition, and help from people in positions of worldly or religious power. It is also associated with domestic or family problems.
Capella ✴ (0.08 Magnitude) ✴ Alpha Aurigae ✴ Auriga Constellation ✴ Latin: “the Small Female Goat” ✴ Mars/Mercury
It gives honor, health, public prestige, and powerful friends. In natal astrology, it can make a person inquisitive, fond of learning, and interested in new trends. The native can be energetic, ambitious, stubborn, and trustworthy. They may also be interested in research. In natal astrology, the star can make its natives odd people in general.
Castor ✴ (1.58 Magnitude) ✴ Alpha Geminorum ✴ Gemini Constellation ✴ Twin of Pollux in ancient Greek mythology ✴ Mercury
It represents Castor, the mortal one of the twins. He was famous for his skill in taming and tending to horses. It is sometimes called “Apollo” and is symbolically named “A Ruler Yet to Come.” It gives a keen intellect, and grants great success in matters of publishing and the law. It grants success in foreign travel. It also bestows fame and honor. In natal astrology, the native may have a fondness for horses. However, there can also be the possibility of a loss of fortune and disgrace. If rising, it can produce eye problems, injuries to the face, wounding, and imprisonment.
Deneb ✴ (1.25 Magnitude) ✴ Zeta Aquilae ✴ Aquila Constellation ✴ Arabic: “Tail” ✴ Mars/Jupiter
It gives the ability to command, and grants success in war.
Deneb Kaitos or Difda ✴ (2.04 Magnitude) ✴ Beta Ceti ✴ Cetus Constellation ✴ Arabic: “The [Southern] Tail of the Sea Monster” ✴ Saturn
It causes self-destruction by forceful behavior. It bestows sickness, disgrace, and misfortune. It can bring about self-undoing through reckless behavior. It creates inhibitions and restraints – physically and psychologically. In natal astrology, it can make the native selfish, cruel, harsh, and vindictive. The native may also suffer from depression.
Denebola ✴ (2.14 Magnitude) ✴ Beta Leonis ✴ Leo Constellation ✴ Arabic: “Tail of the Lion” ✴ Saturn/Venus
It bestows swift judgment, a daring mind, and regrets. It can cause a person to face public disgrace and misfortune due to the elements of nature. It can turn one’s happiness into anger. In natal astrology, it can cause one to be self-controlled, generous, and always busy with the affairs of others. If rising, it can grant riches and good fortune. However, it can also bring anxiety, trouble, and sickness. In mundane astrology, this star corresponds with major catastrophes. If conjunct the asc and Mercury, it can create a quarrelsome nature and a love for legal action or cases.
Deneb Algedi ✴ (2.87 Magnitude) ✴ Delta Capricorni ✴ Capricornus Constellation ✴ Arabic: “The Tail of the Goat” ✴ Saturn/Jupiter ✴ Behenian
This star has a very contradictory nature. It brings benevolence as well as destruction, sorrow alongside happiness, and both life and death. If culminating, it can create great public recognition and authority. It can bestow assistance from powerful people. This star can make people a legal counselor or advisor. It makes them trustworthy. It also gives integrity and justice.
El Nath ✴ (1.65 Magnitude) ✴ Beta Tauri ✴ Taurus Constellation ✴ Arabic: “the butting” ✴ Mars/Mercury
It bestows fortune, eminence, and neutrality. It gives an ambitious nature, but can also make the native stubborn. It bestows fortune and good luck in general.
Fomalhaut ✴ (1.16 Magnitude) ✴ Alpha Piscis Austrinus ✴ Piscis Austrinus Constellation ✴ Arabic: “The Mouth of the [Southern] Fish” ✴ Venus/ Mercury
One of the Royal Stars that once marked the Winter Solstice. It is a very fortunate and powerful star. However, it can cause evil at a very high level. It has the ability to transform raw material into a purely spiritual form of expression. It can also bestow immortality to the name of the native. When rising, it can bring fame and a name that will be remembered forever. It is associated with magic, alchemy, and occult mastery. It can grant fame through occult matters. However, if this fame is exploited, it can lead to misfortune.
Hamal ✴ (2.00 Magnitude) ✴ Alpha Arietis ✴ Aries Constellation ✴ Arabic: “Head of the Ram” ✴ Mars/Saturn
Symbolically called Death Wound. According to Vivian Robson, it is often and incorrectly called El Nath. This star bestows a sense of urgency and the desire to excel. It gives one the ability to become successful. Negatively, it can cause violence and inhumane acts. It can also bring about problems in the marital or family life. It can give a person a poor moral standard. It can also lead to premeditated crimes.
Lesath ✴ (4.01 Magnitude) ✴ Upsilon Scorpii ✴ Scorpius Constellation ✴ Arabic: “The Sting” ✴ Mercury/Mars
It gives danger, desperation, and immorality. It can also be connected with acid poison. Traditionally, when this star was conjunct the asc or the mc, it pointed to danger from wild animals. However, today it indicates any accident, catastrophe, or operation. It can also impart good judgment, exaggeration, and new discoveries.
Markab ✴ (2.49 Magnitude) ✴ Alpha Pegasi ✴ Pegasus Constellation ✴ Arabic: “The Saddle of the Horse” ✴ Mars/Mercury
It bestows honors and riches. If conjunct a benefic, it gives mental clarity and alertness. It can also further one’s spiritual practice. If conjunct a malefic, it will bring danger of wounding, fires, explosions, or illness. If culminating, it could bring disgrace, ruin, and often a violent death. In an otherwise negative nativity, it can prevent the ambitions of the native from being realized.
Mimosa ✴ (1.20 Magnitude) ✴ Beta Crucis ✴ Crux Constellation ✴ Latin: “Mimic or Actor” ✴ Jupiter
When rising, it is supposed to increase one’s intuition and give one a deep grasp of human nature. It can lead one to the study of the occult and grant one success in investigating the hidden side of life. It gives one an inventive mind and can also make the native deeply religious. It grants one mystical interests.
Menkar ✴ (2.53 Magnitude) ✴ Alpha Ceti ✴ Cetus Constellation ✴ Arabic: “Nostril” ✴ Saturn
It causes disease, disgrace, ruin, and loss of fortune. Traditionally, it was thought to cause injuries from beasts. It is a star associated with sickness. It brings anxiety, misery, and the possibility of deceit. If rising, it can bring legacies and inheritances that come with many troubles. If culminating, it can create public disgrace and ruin. It corresponds with worries and tests of endurance. It can harden an individual.
Pleiades, “The Seven Weeping Sisters”
The stars in the Pleiades are Alcyone, Maia, Electra, Merope, Taygete, Celano, Sterope, Atlas, and Pleione. All the stars in the Pleiades are within one degree of each other. The Pleiades form a cluster, with Alcyone as their principal star. The longitude of Alcyone can be used for the whole group. This star group is not good for eyesight, and can create blindness. It can also lead to disgraceful action. In general, this tends to be a very challenging part of heaven, and can correspond with fear, death, anxiety, and misery surrounding whatever is being asked about. The individual magnitudes of the fixed stars in the Pleiades cluster are:
Procyon ✴ (0.34 Magnitude) ✴ Alpha Canis Minoris ✴ Canis Minoria Constellation ✴ Greek: “Before the Dog” ✴ Mercury/Mars
This is a challenging star. It can create violence, malevolence, a rise to fame which ends in disaster, and general misfortune. The native may be timid, unlucky, and weak-natured. They may also be easily angered and careless. If rising, it can make one crafty, creative, and quarrelsome. It can also make one hasty, jealous, and adamant about promoting one’s own agenda. It grants drive and a sharp mind.
Polaris ✴ (2.02 Magnitude) ✴ Ursa Minor Constellation ✴ Latin: “Near the Pole” ✴ Saturn/Venus
Positively, this star can serve as a guide and an indicator within the life of a person.If it is conjunct a planet or angle, the native will have a good sense of discretion and direction. The individual will be able to trust their instincts. In an unfortunate chart, it can manifest misfortune. It gives sickness, loss of fortune, and trouble. In natal astrology, it causes the native to continuously strive to get ahead in life, making them shameless and subject to many tragedies. Recognition comes late in life to these people.
Pollux ✴ (1.15 Magnitude) ✴ Beta Geminorum ✴ Gemini Constellation ✴ Twin of Castor in Greek mythology ✴ Mars
The immortal twin of Castor. Pollux was famous in boxing. This star is sometimes called “Hercules” or “A Heartless Judge.” It bestows subtlety, craftiness, bravery, and audacity. It can make the native crude, cruel, and rash. It can also bestow a love of boxing. If rising, it can be bad for the eyesight and create injuries to the face, as well as bringing sickness and imprisonment. It can also give honors that quickly fade away. If culminating, it can promote advancement in life along with the danger of disgrace and ruin.
Regulus ✴ (1.35 Magnitude) ✴ Alpha Leonis ✴ Leo Constellation ✴ Latin: “Little King” ✴ Mars/Jupiter
One of the Royal Stars. The Watcher of the North, which once marked the SummerSolstice. It is primarily known for its ability to give success, high ideals, strength of spirit, and magnanimity. It creates generosity, ambition, and a fondness of power. It gives one leadership ability and independence. It can bestow royal properties. If rising, it will grant courage, confidence, and frankness. If culminating, Regulus will raise the native to high positions in life that far surpass the environment in which the native was raised. Negatively, it bestows military honor of short duration, the potential of violence, destructiveness, and imprisonment. It can also bring about scandals and a rise to greatness that eventually becomes eclipsed by challenges and failure.
Rigel ✴ (0.12 Magnitude) ✴ Beta Orionis ✴ Orion Constellation ✴ Arabic: “[Left] Foot” ✴ Jupiter/Saturn
It bestows, mechanical ability, ingenuity, public recognition, happiness, and riches. If rising, it creates great and lasting glory. It will also bring a quick rise in life due to a strong willpower, love of action, and luck in business ventures. If culminating, it gives success in the military or in a religious position. It creates magnanimity and much fortune that is acquired through labor. It can also bring anger and vexation to the native. There can be a constant battle to maintain the success that one has gained. However, this can increase the vitality and vigor of the native.
Sirius ✴ (-1.47 Magnitude) ✴ Alpha Canis Majoris ✴ Canis Major Constellation ✴ Greek: “Sparkling, Scorching” ✴ Jupiter/Mars
It is the brightest star in the northern hemisphere. It bestows devotion, public recognition, faithfulness, enthusiasm, passion, and the possibility of resentment. In natal astrology, it can make the native into a custodian, a curator, or the guardian of something. It creates fame and wealth. Traditionally, it was thought to bring the danger of dog bites. If it is rising or in a conjunction with Mars, it can be dangerous and can indicate a ruthless level of ambition. This can put the native in life-threatening situations. The native has success in business endeavors, receives favor from superiors, and find fame attending their death. The native will continue to be honored beyond the grave.
Spica ✴ (0.98 Magnitude) ✴ Alpha Virginis ✴ Virgo Constellation ✴ Latin: “[Virgo’s] Ear of Grain” ✴ Venus/Mars
It grants success, public recognition, and wealth. The native can have a very refinedunderstanding of art and science. This star can bestow a charming disposition. When rising or culminating, it brings good fortune, happiness, and advancement in life beyond the native’s hopes or dreams. Negatively, it can bring injustice, unfruitfulness, dishonesty, and unfair behavior.
Scheat ✴ (2.42 Magnitude) ✴ Beta Pegasi ✴ Pegasus Constellation ✴ Arabic: “The Upper Arm” ✴ Saturn
This is considered to be a very unfortunate star. In natal astrology, it bestows unfortunate conditions, stubbornness, and a combative nature. The native will gain and lose friends, and may have a controversial nature. Scheat can bring about extreme misfortune, murder, suicide, or death by drowning. If it is conjunct a malefic, the native could die in a catastrophic way such as a flood, shipwreck, or some other accident.
Vega ✴ (0.03 Magnitude) ✴ Alpha Lyrae ✴ Lyra Constellation ✴ Arabic: “Falling” ✴ Venus/Mercury
It bestows benevolence, idealism, hopefulness, and refinement. In natal astrology, it can make a native grave, sober, outwardly pretentious, and with an overwhelmingly expressive sexual nature.
Vindemiatrix ✴ (2.83 Magnitude) ✴ Epsilon Virginis ✴ Virgo Constellation ✴ Latin: “The Grape-Harvestress” ✴ Saturn/Mercury
It gives deception, disgrace, and stealing, and can cause the native to become a widow. It can bestow an impulsive and rash nature. It can also create scandals, poverty, and depression. If situated in an otherwise promising chart, it can give leadership ability. If rising or culminating, it can give mental concentration. The native can excel in areas of architecture and business.
Zosma ✴ (2.56 Magnitude) ✴ Delta Leonis ✴ Leo Constellation ✴ Greek: “Girdle” ✴ Saturn/Venus
It bestows benefits from circumstances that would normally be disgraceful. It can also create immorality, meanness, depression, and unhappiness. It can make someone afraid of poisons. It brings an unreasonable, shameless nature. In natal astrology, the native will desire to have power over others. If conjunct a malefic, it can indicate the danger of being poisoned.
Zuben Elschemali ✴ (2.61 Magnitude) ✴ Beta Librae ✴ Libra Constellation ✴ Arabic: “The Northern Claw” ✴ Jupiter
It grants good fortune, high ambitions, benevolence, public recognition, wealth, and permanent happiness. If rising or culminating, it can bring great advancement in life. It can also bestow psychic gifts.
Zuben Elgenubi ✴ (2.75 Magnitude) ✴ Alpha Librae ✴ Libra Constellation ✴ Arabic: “The Southern Claw” ✴ Saturn/Mars
It causes obstruction, an unforgiving character, violence, disease, crime, disgrace, and the danger of being poisoned. It can make one criminally inclined.
