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Real astronomy and dated history, with sources. Documented traditions and folklore. Modern lunar astrology · symbolic, not predictive.

Planets and points · Traditional technique · Advanced

Fixed stars

Also called royal stars, Regulus, Spica, Algol

Bright stars that some astrologers read when a planet or angle falls on the same ecliptic degree.

Ptolemy described the stars' supposed natures by comparing them with planets. Traditional astrologers still note conjunctions with stars such as Regulus, Spica and Algol, using their ecliptic longitudes, which shift by about 1° every 72 years with precession. This site's chart does not include them; its star pages discuss the tradition.

  • Kind: Astronomy, History
  • Tradition: Traditional Western astrology
  • In this site’s birth chart: not used

Related: Precession of the equinoxes, Planet (astrological sense)

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