Zosma
Descendant Conjunct Zosma
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. Zosma, the star's victim-savior theme, its fear softened by benefit through others, falls on partnership and the people you draw near. You may meet the wounded and the helping by turns, finding real gain through the other even where vulnerability shadows the bond. 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 Zosma beside the rest of your chart and any planet it touches.
- fixed star
- zosma
- descendant
- conjunction
Sources
- Robson, The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology (1923)Gives Zosma's traditional nature of fear and vulnerability eased by benefit through others, read here on the relational and domestic angles.
- Brady, Brady's Book of Fixed Stars (1998)Reads Zosma through the victim-savior myth of the lion's back 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 Zosma on a conjunct point, here the Descendant and Imum Coeli.