Lesath
Descendant Conjunct Lesath
With your 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. Lesath, the star's nature, the scorpion's sting and a desperate cutting edge, falls on partnership and what you draw close. Your bonds can run intense and penetrating, capable of swift action under pressure, yet the same angle can sting or push others to extremes. 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. colors this setting point without ruling it, so read Lesath beside the rest of your chart and any planet it touches.
- fixed star
- lesath
- descendant
- conjunction
Sources
- Robson, The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology (1923)Gives Lesath's traditional nature of the scorpion's sting with its desperate, dangerous edge, read here on the relational and domestic angles.
- Brady, Brady's Book of Fixed Stars (1998)Reads Lesath through the stinger myth of Scorpius and its meaning by conjunction, applied to partnership and the roots of the chart.
- Ebertin, Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation (1971)Gives the practical, observed effect of Lesath on a conjunct point, here the Descendant and Imum Coeli.