| DENEB ALGEDI | |
| Delta Capricornus | |
| 22AQU08. | 23AQU33. |
| -16.35'. | -16.08'. |
| 21h46m. | -02.36'. |
| A5. | 3.0. |
History of the star: A star in the Sea Goat's tail, Capricornus. Symbolically called the "Judicial Point of the Goat". Deneb Algedi is the transcription by Ulug Beg's translator of Al Dhanab al Jady (1), the "Tail of the goat"; changed to Scheddi in some lists, — a name also found for gamma (Nashira). Ideler said that these stars (Deneb Algedi and Nashira) were Al Muhibbain, "the Two Friends", an Arabic allegorical title for any two closely associated objects; but Beigel differed with him as to this, and wrote it Al Muhanaim, "the Two Bending Stars", in the flexure of the tail [and adding "for moral beings are foreign to the nomad sky", which could refer to the lusty goat embodied in the god Pan who preyed sexually on nymphs and boys indifferently. Pan was god of All Things, indicative of the procreative charging all things - PDS p.734. The "higher" attributes of Capricorn are personified in Vesta, to whom the sacred Vestal Virgins are consecrated].
With gamma (Nashira) it was Al Sa'd al Nashirah, the "Fortunate One", or the "Bringer of Good Tidings".
It marked the 28th ecliptic constellation of Babylonia, Arkat sha hi-na Shahu, the "Eastern One in the Tail" of the Goat.
[Star
Names, Their Lore and Meaning, Richard
Hinchley Allen, 1889].
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.]
The general astrological influences of the star: According to Ptolemy it is of the nature of Saturn and Jupiter; and, to Alvidas, of Uranus and Mercury in Aquarius in opposition to Saturn in Leo. It is said to cause beneficence and destructiveness, sorrow and happiness, and life and death. (Robson*).
Martian and Jupiterian in nature; indicating authority. (Larousse Encyclopedia of Astrology).
If culminating: Great glory, fame, wealth, dignity and authority by the help of an old clergyman or influential person. (Robson*).
With Sun: Loss through false friends, high position but final disgrace and ruin, loss of money or property, sickness, worry through children. (Robson*).
With Moon: Great difficulties in everything, success after patient plodding but final loss of position. (Robson*).
With Mercury: Melancholy, quiet, solitary, unkempt or ragged, student of nature, science or philosophy, engaged in trapping animals or reptiles, snakes or poisonous beetles which do not harm the native. (Robson*).
With Venus: Some secret desire that is never gratified, domestic or family difficulties. (Robson).
With Mars: Danger from enemies, accidents, honor and preferment but many quarrels and final disgrace, violent death. (Robson*).
With Jupiter: Disappointment in secret wishes, false friends, loss through the law, Church and relatives. (Robson*).
With Saturn: Great power over animals and poisonous reptiles, indifferent to study, knowledge of many secrets of nature, feared, unpleasant appearance and life, bad for gain and marriage, death of or separation from parents in youth, secluded end of life. (Robson*).
With Uranus: Many sorrows, engaged in reform, unbalanced mind, may seek someone's life as a mission, unfavorable for gain and marriage, strange and peculiar or violent death. (Robson*).
With Neptune: Easily influenced, psychic ability, superstitious, reserved, economical, some gain through speculation, many enemies, bad early environment leaving lasting impression, morose and melancholy at end of life, accidents, death in a fit or by assassination. (Robson*).
References
*(Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology