Mira
Mira
Mira, the Wonderful variable star in Cetus, brightens and fades on a long cycle, and so it marks the rhythm of appearing and disappearing, visibility and retreat, creative renewal through phases. It rewards those who honor their own cycles of showing up and pulling back.
- fixed star
- star
- mira
Sources
- Robson, The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology (1923)Gives the traditional nature and meaning of the fixed star Mira.
- Brady, Brady's Book of Fixed Stars (1998)Reads Mira in its constellational and predictive context.
- Ebertin, Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation (1971)Supplies the modern cosmobiological interpretation of Mira.