THE FIXED STARS - Astroweb

With Uranus: Mental disturbance, much activity, occult or unpractical interests, repeatedly suffers through the same
mistakes, disharmony with relatives and neighbors, successful in the occupation of making peculiar machinery but
little financial gain; unfavorable for domestic matters, many minor accidents. (Robson).
With Neptune: Keen intellect, extremist, little forethought or balance, many quarrels, ability for mercantile pursuits,
associated with companies connected with patents or electrical instruments, bad for marriage or partnership, many
unexpected events, fairly good for gain, many narrow escapes but eventual violent death. (Robson).
Fixed star: ARNEB.
English translation: Hare. A star in the body of Lepus, the Hare.
Constellation: Alpha Lepus
Longitude 1900: 19GEM59 Longitude 2000: 21GEM23.
Declination 1900: -17.54'. Declination 2000: -17.49'.
Right ascension: 05h32m. Latitude: -41.03'.
Spectral class: F0. Magnitude: 2.7.
Suggested orb: 0' 48" Planetary nature: Saturn-Mercury
Influence of the constellation: It gives a quick wit, timidity, circumspection, fecundity and defiance. (Robson).
Rising: To those born under this constellation nature all but gives wings and flight through the air - such will be the
vigour of limbs which reflect the swiftness of the winds. One man will come off winner in the footrace before even
receiving the signal to start; another by his quick movement can evade the hard boxing-glove and now lightly avoid,
now land a blow; another can with a deft kick keep in the air a flying ball, exchanging hands for feet and employing in
play the body's support, and execute with nimble arms a volley of rapid strokes; yet another can shower his limbs with
a host of balls and create hands to spring up all over his body with the result that, without dropping any of the number,
he plays against himself and causes the balls to fly about his person as though in answer to his command. Such a
man devotes wakeful nights to his concerns, for his energy banishes sleepiness (according to Aelian, the hare sleeps
with its eyes open) whilst he spends happy workfree hours in games of divers kinds. (Manilus, book 5 of Astronomica,
1st century AD).
Fixed star: CAPELLA. Albajoth. Amalthea.
Constellation: Alpha Auriga
Longitude 1900: 20GEM28 Longitude 2000: 21GEM51
Declination 1900: +45.54'. Declination 2000: +46.00'.
Right ascension: 05h16m. Latitude: +22.51'.
Spectral class: GG. Magnitude: 0.08.
Suggested orb: 1' 14" Planetary nature: Mar-Mer
History of the star: Alpha Auriga, Capella is the Lucida of the constellation Auriga and the 6th largest star in the sky.
Capella means "small goat" or the Little She-goat. A previous name of this star was Amalthea, which was the goat
that suckled the baby Zeus. There are many ancient stories relating to the star, as every culture in antiquity found a
place for this bright companion to Taurus, its closest neighbor. "Capella's course admiring landsmen trace, but sailors
hate her inauspicious face".
This star known for its stormy character throughout classical days and called the 'rainy Goat-star'.
Amalthea came from the name of the Cretan goat, the nurse of Jupiter and mother of the Haedi (the two stars
depicted as kid goats - Zeta and Eta Auriga), which she put aside to accommodate her foster-child, and for which
Manilius wrote: The Nursing Goat's repaid with Heaven. The nurse was the nymph Amalthea, who, with her sister
Melissa, fed the infant god with goat's milk and honey on Mount Ida and this star is appropriately positioned in the
Milky Way. Others said that the star represented the Goat's horn broken off in play by the infant Jove (Jupiter) and
transferred to the heavens as Cornu-copia, the Horn of Plenty.
Capella's place on the Egyptian Denderah zodiac is occupied by a mummied cat in the outstretched hand of a male
figure crowned with feathers; while, always an important star in the temple worship of the great Egyptian god Ptah, the
Opener (of the year), it is supposed to have borne the name of that divinity and probably was observed at its setting
1700 BCE from his temple, the noted edifice at Karnak near Thebes, the No Amon of the books of the prophets
Jeremiah and Nahum. A sanctuary of Ptah at Memphis also was oriented to it about 5200 BCE. There's believed to be
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