Vindemiatrix
Descendant Conjunct Vindemiatrix
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. Vindemiatrix, the star's mix of concentrated focus and a tendency to folly falls on how you meet others and what you draw into close ties. Partners may bring keen application and steadiness, while the same angle can court misjudgment in love or separation when least expected. 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 Vindemiatrix with the rest of your chart and any planet it touches.
- fixed star
- vindemiatrix
- descendant
- conjunction
Sources
- Robson, The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology (1923)Gives Vindemiatrix's traditional nature of focus shadowed by folly and the old widow-maker caution, read here on the relational and domestic angles.
- Brady, Brady's Book of Fixed Stars (1998)Reads Vindemiatrix through its grape-gatherer myth 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 Vindemiatrix on a conjunct point, here the Descendant and Imum Coeli.