Alkaid
Descendant Conjunct Alkaid
On the Descendant the fixed star Alkaid, the Bear's tail and a mourning star that can face crisis and death, turns its gravity toward your partnerships. You may attract or be attracted through grief, hardship, or fateful turns, and a key relationship can be marked by loss it must withstand. Alkaid colors but does not dictate, so read its sober, crisis-touched nature with the rest of the chart before you read every bond as a burden.
- fixed star
- alkaid
- descendant
- conjunction
Sources
- Robson, The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology (1923)Casts Alkaid as the Bear's tail, a mourning star facing crisis and death, here read at the setting and nadir angles.
- Brady, Brady's Book of Fixed Stars (1998)Reads Alkaid by the Bear's myth and heliacal phase, applied to partnership and to the private foundation.
- Ebertin, Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation (1971)Gives the modern reading of Alkaid's sober, crisis-touched influence, turned toward what you attract and your roots.