Praesepe
Praesepe
Praesepe, the Beehive cluster near 7 degrees of Leo, is a nebulous swarm of faint stars. Robson gives it a malefic cast tied to blindness, crowds, fevers, and recklessness, but also to industry and the activity of many small things working unseen. Brady reads it as the hive mind, the swarm, immersion in the collective. Worked with consciousness it is industrious and connected; unconscious it can scatter into the mass and lose the eyes' clear focus.
- fixed-star
- praesepe
- malefic
Sources
- Robson, The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology (1923)Gives the traditional nature and influence of Praesepe.
- Brady, Brady's Book of Fixed Stars (1998)Reads Praesepe through its myth and its meaning by conjunction.
- Ebertin, Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation (1971)Gives the practical, observed effect of Praesepe on a conjunct planet.