History of the star: There are two betas; beta¹, and beta², 2.5 and 6, each very closely double, orange yellow and sky blue, marking the head of the Goat, Capricornus, the components about 3 minutes distant from each other.

Dabih Major and Dabih Minor are the names of this so-called double, but telescopically multiple, star, taken from the title of the Arabic 20th manzil of which, with alpha (Gieda Prima), it formed part.

Dabih is from Arabic Sa'd adh-dhabih (1), "The lucky star of the slaughterer", manifestly referring to the sacrifice celebrated by the Arabs at the helical rising of Capricorn. And of similar signification was the Euphratean Shak-shadi and the Coptic Eupeutos, or Opeutus, for the same lunar asterism of those peoples. This name indicates that the star served to signal the beginning of a winter ritual. The importance of Capricornus is focused on this star. The Sun would have been in the constellation at the winter solstice three to four thousand years ago.

In China it was in some way intimately connected in religious worship with the rearing of the silkworm in that country.

[Star Names, Their Lore and Meaning, Richard Hinchley Allen, 1889]. 

Dabih was the title of the Arabic 20th manzil (Moon Mansion) of which, with alpha (Gieda Prima), it formed part.

Influences of the 20th manzil: Helps the escape of servants and captives and the curing of diseases. (Robson*).

The astrological influences of the constellation: The Goat is associated with the Hebrew letter Yod and the 10th Tarot Trump, The Wheel of Fortune". (Robson*).

The astrological influences of the constellation given by Manilius:

In her shrine Vesta tends your fires, Capricorn : and from her you derive your skills and callings. For whatever needs fire to function and demands a renewal of flame for its work must be counted as of your domain. To pry for hidden metals, to smelt out riches deposited in the veins of the earth, to fold sure-handed the malleable mass—these skills will come from you, as will aught which is fashioned of silver or gold. That hot furnaces melt iron and bronze, and ovens give to the wheat its final form, will come as gifts from you. You also give a fondness for clothes and wares which dispel the cold, since your lot falls for all 241 time in winter's season, wherein you shorten the nights you have brought to their greatest length and give birth to a new year by enlarging the daylight hours. Hence comes a restless quality in their lives and a mind which is often changed and floats this way and that; the first half of the sign is the slave of Venus, and that with guilt involved, but a more virtuous old age is promised by the conjoined fish below. [Astronomica, Manilius, 1st century AD, book 4, p.241.]

Venusian and Saturnian in nature; indicating a tendency to melancholy. (Larousse Encyclopedia of Astrology).

With Sun: Reserved, suspicious and mistrustful, loss through friends, responsible public position of trust and authority. (Robson*).

With Moon: Successful in business but retires under a cloud, favorable for wealth, influential position but scarcely realizes ambitions, trouble through opposite sex, deserved criticism and censure. (Robson*).

With Mercury: Reserved, suspicious, envious, self-centred, prominent position in public affairs or companies, favorable for gain, bad for domestic affairs, peculiar home conditions. (Robson*).

With Venus: Secret love affairs, sorrow and disappointment, easily led astray, enmity of women. (Robson*).

With Mars: Great ambition, energy, high position but danger of reversal, domestic disharmony. (Robson*).

With Jupiter: Hypocrisy, dishonesty, high legal or ecclesiastical preferment but danger of reversal, domestic disharmony. (Robson*).

With Saturn: Melancholy, studious, recluse, restless and nervous, writer, accumulates miserly fashion, often lives alone but danger of separation and divorce, rapt in some great sorrow, long life. (Robson*).

With Uranus: Strange and peculiar experiences, many ups and downs, much suffering, loses friends through deception, disappointed ambitions, losses of a Mercurial nature, unfavorable for domestic affairs, terror of death, dies after a lingering illness. (Robson*).

With Neptune: Active mind, shrewd and selfish in business, pessimistic, critical, many enemies, occupied with secret undertakings, serious accidents in middle age, disappointing love affairs, unfavorable for early marriage but favorable for one in middle age, prominence in public affairs, sudden death. (Robson*).

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Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology