Algol
Algol
A famously intense fixed star in Perseus, linked to raw passion and losing one's head, both literally and figuratively. It is one of the most talked-about stars in astrology., the most intense and difficult of the A star in the background sky beyond the planets, holding its place in the constellations. Astrology reads contacts to certain bright stars as carrying their own distinct fortunes., is the blinking demon-star, the severed head of the Gorgon Medusa, of the nature of Saturn and Jupiter. It marks concentrated, raw power and the danger of losing one's head, literally or figuratively, to rage, passion, or catastrophe. Long tied to violence and misfortune, in a chart it shows where intensity must be consciously mastered: faced and owned, Algol's power can be fierce and transformative; denied, it can turn destructive or self-destructive.
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Sources
- Robson, The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology (1923)Gives the traditional nature and meaning of the fixed star Algol.
- Brady, Brady's Book of Fixed Stars (1998)Reads Algol in its constellational and predictive context.
- Ebertin, Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation (1971)Supplies the modern cosmobiological interpretation of Algol.