Unukalhai
Descendant Conjunct Unukalhai
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. Unukalhai, the star's serpent nature, its crisis that is poison or medicine by the same edge, falls on partnership and what you meet in the other. Those you draw close may carry healing and harm in one charge, and your closest ties can turn at the moment of testing. 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 angle without ruling it, so read Unukalhai beside the rest of your chart and any planet it touches.
- fixed star
- unukalhai
- descendant
- conjunction
Sources
- Robson, The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology (1923)Gives Unukalhai's traditional serpentine nature of crisis, poison, and the chance of cure, read here on the relational and domestic angles.
- Brady, Brady's Book of Fixed Stars (1998)Reads Unukalhai through the serpent myth of Serpens 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 Unukalhai on a conjunct point, here the Descendant and Imum Coeli.