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Canopus

Midheaven Conjunct Canopus

With your natal The highest point of the chart, also called the MC, marking the top of the sky at your birth. It speaks to career, reputation, and your public direction. When two planets sit at the same point in the zodiac, blending their meanings into one. The most powerful and direct of the aspects. Canopus, the star's character marks your vocation and public role: the navigator's long voyage and a change for the better. A 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. tints whatever planet it sits on, lending its old reputation to that part of you. Read it together with Canopus's full nature and the rest of the chart; one star colors but does not dictate, and a hard star rewards conscious, disciplined handling.

Sources

  • Robson, The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology (1923)Gives the traditional nature and influence of Canopus.
  • Brady, Brady's Book of Fixed Stars (1998)Reads Canopus through its myth and its meaning by conjunction.
  • Ebertin, Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation (1971)Gives the practical, observed effect of Canopus on a conjunct planet.