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Comprised of two prominent stars: Sadmalduk, the Bringer of Storms. Also known as the Lucky one of the King. This position holds a connection to relationship, order and heirarchy. The deeper connotations are connected to the occult, and well described with the Planetary influence, by Vivian Robson. Under the stars of Aquarii, lucky is mentioned numerous times, all of which bestow either luck or chaos and is connected to the Arabic root word, S’AD meaning luck, lucky. These stars represented as the and luck within this celestial body should be thought of as fortune, fortunate, and not ‘luck of the draw’. Therein presents the first level of polarity within these stars, a polarity which reveals its purpose within the creative process, and its symbolism. Let’s venture into the flowing waters of change and transformation, the roaring tides of high seas and low trenches. Uncover the stars and the power that inspired so many cultures to connect life and luck and transformation to it’s dominion. 4,000 BC this star rose during the winter solstice,
Stars of Aquarius
Aquarius depicted as a young man pouring water from a jar or amphora, symbolized as Ganyemeade the Greek myths. Although according to Ovid, in his Fasti, says the liquid is a mixture of water and nectar, the drink of the gods. The water jar is marked by a Y-shaped asterism of four stars centred on 4th-magnitude Zeta Aquarii, and the stream ends in the mouth of the Southern Fish, Piscis Austrinus. Who is this young man commemorated as Aquarius?
The constellation’s name in Greek was Ὑδροχόος, i.e. Hydrochoös. In the Almagest, Ptolemy described the stars Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Aquarii as lying in the right shoulder, left shoulder, and the right forearm of the figure respectively, and of the nature of Saturn and Mercury. The head of Aquarius is marked by the relatively lowly 25 Aquarii, of 5th magnitude.
Several stars in Aquarius have names beginning with ‘Sad’. The Arabic word sa'd is usually said to mean ‘luck’ or ‘lucky’, but has also been translated as good fortune, auspicious, an omen, or blessedness. There were ten Arabic asterisms bearing the name sa'd, stretching from Pegasus southwards through Aquarius and into Capricornus. All but one of these asterisms consisted of two stars, the exception being the water-jar asterism of four stars (Gamma, Zeta, Eta, and Pi Aquarii) which the Arabs knew as sa’d al-akhbiya. In a major study of Arabic star lore, Danielle Adams of the University of Arizona has translated this name as ‘the auspice of woollen tents’, the Y-shaped arrangement of stars perhaps being reminiscent of a tent. Gamma Aquarii, the brightest star in this asterism at magnitude 3.8, is known as Sadachbia, from the Arabic name sa’d al-akhbiya.
Alpha Aquarii, magnitude 2.9, is called Sadalmelik, from sa’d al-malik, ‘the auspice of the king’. Beta Aquarii, also magnitude 2.9, is Sadalsuud, from sa’d al-su’ud, ‘the auspice of auspices’ (although the German expert on star names, Paul Kunitzsch, translates this as ‘luckiest of the lucky’). The exact significance of these names has long been lost even by the Arabs, according to Kunitzsch.
Aquarii can be thought of as governing the sea, containing the other constellations: Pisces-southern fish, Cetus- whale, Delphinus-dolphin, Eridanus- river, and Hydra-water serpent.
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Psyche shifts the mind through the all. The duty to serve, the self becomes selfless, and this shift changes the ego through water, the pitcher must be broken. Water, the tide, that which nurtures and connects. The water represents the cosmic waters, as seen across many creation myths from Babylon, Egypt (heliacal setting during the rise of Sirius), the pitcher and exaltation of Ganymede, Vishnu’s water of pure essence. Ganymede, the myth indicates the exaltation, the cycle of creation to and through divine. The ‘boy’ in beauty, and purity is symnbolized as ‘ideal’ clean, and untainted by life, or previous carnations. A new world, a new evolution, a new generation- the child. There is a specific under pinning of rulership over carnal desires, or worldly chasing. <<