The fixed star Sirius is a powerful and significant star in astrology, traditionally associated with success, ambition, and power. Located in the constellation Canis Major, Sirius is known as the ‘Dog Star’ and is one of the brightest stars in the night sky.
In astrology, Sirius is associated with the sign of Cancer, and is said to bring success and prosperity to those who have a prominent placement or connection to this star in their birth chart. It is thought to indicate great strength of character, a strong will, and a drive for success and recognition.
Sirius is also associated with psychic and intuitive abilities, and it is believed that those with a strong connection to this star may possess enhanced intuitive and psychic abilities, enabling them to tap into deeper levels of knowledge and understanding.
In ancient times, Sirius was also known as the ‘Nile Star,’ as its rising coincided with the annual flooding of the Nile River in Egypt, which was considered a vital source of life and fertility. As such, Sirius is also associated with abundance, fertility, and growth.
In addition, Sirius has been associated with success and power in the world of business and finance, and is said to bring good fortune to those who work in these fields. It is also thought to enhance one’s reputation and status, bringing greater recognition and respect from others.
Overall, the influence of Sirius in astrology is considered to be a potent and powerful force, indicating great potential for success, achievement, and growth for those who have a strong connection to this star in their birth chart. However, it is important to note that like all celestial bodies, the influence of Sirius must be balanced with other planetary placements and aspects in the birth chart in order to gain a complete understanding of an individual’s character and destiny.
Sirius, Alpha Canis Majoris, the brilliant star named the Dog (in ore splendissimus vocata Canis), from Seir, to shine, or Heat wave: according to Ptolemy, Sirius is of the nature of Mars and Jupiter, according to Leowicz, of the nature of Mercury and Mars. According to Welling, it is of the nature of Jupiter, Mars and Venus, and it gives a violent and impetuous character inclined to fury. When it is on the MC, or very-well aspected, it may bring about fame and riches, but in general, the individual is violent, proud, quick to threaten, and irascible.
Fixed star Sirius is of the nature of Jupiter and Mars (high ambition, pride, love of power, grandeur of view.) It gives honor, renown, wealth, ardor, faithfulness, devotion, passion and resentment, and makes its natives custodians, curators and guardians. It also gives danger of dog bites, and two examples of this effect will be found under Procyon.
Sirius is one of the 15 Behenian Fixed Stars. Its image is a hound or a little virgin. It gives honor, the goodwill and favor of men and the airy spirits, and the power to pacify nobles and others. Rules beryl, savine, mugwort, dragonwort and the tongue of a snake. [1]
Well connected, it promises fame, honors and riches. According to tradition, Sirius will give a famous death with honors beyond the grave, if positioned in the 8th house. In good aspect with Mars and Jupiter and close to the MC, promise is given of gaining extensive wealth, a lucky hand in commercial enterprise or matters of government. This star so placed is most excellent for military, lawyers and civil servants. Sirius in conjunction with the Sun and well placed in the chart will be found to be the case with numerous important and famous personalities. Possibly, the rise in station is made possible by protection from people of influence. [2]
Sirius marks immense creative talents in any field at all with ‘only’ the warning that there may be more inner power than can be safely managed. Harshly aspected it can show a psychotic person truly a menace to himself and the community, but in better condition we have here the star of the truly Great figures in every field of human endeavor. [3]
Sirius (our English “Sir” is derived from this word) was, by the ancients, always associated with great heat. And the hottest part of the year we still call “the dog days,” though, through the variation as observed in different latitudes, and the precession of the equinoxes, its rising has long ceased to have any relation to those days. Virgil says that Sirius “With pestilential heat infects the sky.”
Homer spoke of it as a star “Whose burning breath, Taints the red air with fevers, plagues, and death.” It is not, however, of its heat that its name speaks, but of the fact that it is the brightest of all the stars, as He of whom it witnesses is the “Prince of princes,” “the Prince of the Kings of the earth.”
Though this “Dog-Star” came to have an ill-omened association, it was not so in more ancient times. In the ancient Akkadian it is called Kasista, which means the Leader and Prince of the heavenly host. While (as Mr. Robert Brown, Jr, points out) “the Sacred Books of Persia contain many praises for the star Tistrya or Tistar (Sirius), ‘the chieftain of the East.’” (Euphratean Stellar Researches). [4]
Sirius rules the nipple of the right breast in the human body. [5]
Constellation Canis Major
Ptolemy states that the stars of this constellation, with the exception of Sirius, are like Venus. It is said to give good qualities, charity and a faithful heart, but violent and dangerous passions. There is some danger from, or fear of, darkness and the night, and liability to dog bites, though the latter characteristic is probably associated more particularly with Sirius. Canis Major is connected by the Kabalists with the Hebrew letter Tzaddi and the 18th Tarot Trump, “The Moon”. [1]
Favorable for hunting, besieging towns, and the revenge of princes, destroys harvests and fruits, and hinders the operation of the physician.
With Moon: Plough, sow, but do not travel.
22nd Chinese Xiù – 井 (Jǐng) Well
This is the head of the Phoenix. Associated with beauty, water, navigation at sea, hygiene, cleaning, repairs, and refurbishments. Because of the association of cleanliness with Godliness (virtue), this mansion also presides over law and order, moral uprightness and cleansing of moral wrongs.
The luck in this mansion is said to vary because of the conflict of the elements involved. Labor is rewarded, while idleness is sanctioned. It is good for taking exams, tending to herbivorous animals and all types of industriousness. It is very good for gardening and widows. Bad for funerals because of the risk of epidemics and sudden death, though, and all projects in progress should be worked on instead of being put aside.
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