Castor
Descendant Conjunct Castor
With your natal The point directly opposite the Ascendant, on the western horizon. It describes partnership, others, and what you seek in relationship. When two planets sit at the same point in the zodiac, blending their meanings into one. The most powerful and direct of the aspects. 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. Castor, the mortal twin, the star's keen mind and gift for words colors what you attract and how you relate one to one. You tend to draw articulate, clever partners and to do your best relating through conversation, ideas, and exchange, though Castor's mortal cast brings ups and downs to those bonds. Open dealings with others can be brilliant one season and fragile the next. Read it with Castor's full nature and the rest of the chart, since a single star colors but does not dictate.
- fixed star
- castor
- descendant
- conjunction
Sources
- Robson, The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology (1923)Gives the nature and influence of Castor as it falls on the relationship and foundation angles of a chart.
- Brady, Brady's Book of Fixed Stars (1998)Reads Castor by its twin myth and heliacal phase as it bears on partnership and the private base.
- Ebertin, Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation (1971)Gives the modern reading of Castor on the lower and western angles of the chart.

