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Fixed Stars
Jun. 7th, 2023 12:35 pmOn the MC or on the Ascendant this star with its Saturn-Mercury nature is said to help mental concentration and to promote the type of native who engages for architects and businessmen. Tied up with Mars, it results in increased power of thought, tending sometimes to sarcasm and polemics. With Mars also, a danger of injuries is indicated. Badly placed, and especially so if in conjunction with Saturn or Neptune, this star is said to cause a tendency to depressive moods, skepticism a distrustful nature. Tied up with Mercury, this star, if otherwise badly place, will lead to nervous irritability. [ALAN YOUNG - MARS sq SUN/ME]
In older astrology, this star ranks with Algol in having an unmitigated reputation for evil, and some even have noted the arc or aspect between the two is the much-feared 135º, the sesqui-quadrate or sesquisquare. But the underlying reason for their similar reputed lies in the connection of both names with the theme of ‘the Spirit’. The one is the name from which comes our word Alcohol, the other is the star whose rising signifies the time for harvesting the grapes, our main old source of the same.
As always, much depends on how one sees events themselves as good or bad. Yes, it does frequently mark the death of someone’s partner in life, whence its appellation ‘The Widowmaker’, which of course prompts us to say: ‘It is bound to, since someone dies at every minute or so of every day’. But still, the fact remains it figures strongly and regularly in deaths which are in some way dramatic, newsworthy or are resented in much more than the usual degree by those left behind (assassinations, common criminal murders, executions, airline disasters etc.). At least one unsafe airplane of World War II, known widely as ‘The Widow Maker’ made its first flight on the day that Vindemiatrixculminated, while another which had the same phenomenon at its birth, but was successful, was officially named the ‘Black Widow’!
In older astrology, this star ranks with Algol in having an unmitigated reputation for evil, and some even have noted the arc or aspect between the two is the much-feared 135º, the sesqui-quadrate or sesquisquare. But the underlying reason for their similar reputed lies in the connection of both names with the theme of ‘the Spirit’. The one is the name from which comes our word Alcohol, the other is the star whose rising signifies the time for harvesting the grapes, our main old source of the same.
As always, much depends on how one sees events themselves as good or bad. Yes, it does frequently mark the death of someone’s partner in life, whence its appellation ‘The Widowmaker’, which of course prompts us to say: ‘It is bound to, since someone dies at every minute or so of every day’. But still, the fact remains it figures strongly and regularly in deaths which are in some way dramatic, newsworthy or are resented in much more than the usual degree by those left behind (assassinations, common criminal murders, executions, airline disasters etc.). At least one unsafe airplane of World War II, known widely as ‘The Widow Maker’ made its first flight on the day that Vindemiatrixculminated, while another which had the same phenomenon at its birth, but was successful, was officially named the ‘Black Widow’!