| ALGORAB Ksora | |
| Delta Corvus | |
| 12LIB04. | 13LIB27. |
| -15.58'. | -16.31'. |
| 12h29m. | -12.11'. |
| A0. | 3.1. |
History of the star: A double star, 3.1 and 8.5 magnitude, pale yellow and purple. It is on the right wing, and at the upper left corner of the square of the Crow, Corvus. The Arabic name for Algorab is Al-Ghurab, "The raven".
It was a star in the 11th Hindu nakshatra, Hasta, the Hand, with Savitar, the Sun, as its presiding divinity; this star, delta, marking the junction with Citra (Spica), the next lunar station.
[Star
Names, Their
Lore and Meaning, Richard Hinchley Allen, 1889].
Influences of the 11th Hindu Mansion: favorable for sales, art, sculpture, learning, marital love, wearing of ornaments, medicine, and purchase of carriages when containing the Moon. Those born on the lunar day will be thieves, dealers in large animals, painters, merchants, handsome and religious. (Robson*).
The astrological influences of the constellation: According to Ptolemy, Corvus is like Mars and Saturn. It is said to give craftiness, greediness, ingenuity, patience, revengefulness, passion, selfishness, lying, aggressiveness and material instincts, and sometimes causes its natives to become agitators. (Robson*).
"Corvinus, winner of spoils and a name,
aided in combat by a bird which hides beneath a bird's exterior the
godhead of Phoebus
" [Astronomica
The general astrological influences of the star: It gives destructiveness, malevolence, fiendishness, repulsiveness and lying, and is connected with scavenging. (Robson*).
A Mars-Saturn star that can show up the
more troublesome side of Libra, a variation on the truth when an excuse looks to
be safer. (The Living Stars
Delays and restraint are indicated to
come about by fiascoes, losses, wrong handling of matters and enmity in
general. Accidents or injuries, difficult to avoid. (Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation
References
*(Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology