Menkar
Mars Conjunct Menkar
With your natal Mars conjunct the fixed star Menkar, the star's nature marks your drive and action: the Whale's jaw, inherited burdens and rising to a larger cause. The Mars magnifies and makes central whatever a star signifies, so this is a real mark on this part of you. Read it together with Menkar's full nature and the rest of the chart; a single star colors but does not dictate.
- fixed star
- menkar
- mars
- conjunction
Sources
- Robson, The Fixed Stars and Constellations in AstrologyGives the nature and influence of Menkar.
- Brady, Brady's Book of Fixed StarsReads Menkar by its myth and heliacal phase.
- Ebertin, Fixed Stars and Their InterpretationGives the modern reading of Menkar conjunct a planet.