Fixed Star Lab
Before house systems and minor aspects, astrologers watched the bright stars. A luminary or angle exactly conjunct Regulus, Algol, or Spica was read as a marked chart. This lab applies that strict old test: nine stars, six points, two degrees of orb, nothing else.
Load a chart to test the nine classical stars against your Sun, Moon, and chart angles, the only contacts the tradition treats as significant.
The nine stars
Intensity, raw power, the demon eye. Activates fierce instincts when conjunct a luminary or angle.
Royal star of the east, the watcher. Integrity rewarded, honor through right action.
Teacher, technical mastery, lasting legacy. Engineering of the practical and durable.
The brightest star, sacred mission. Calling that arrives larger than the personal self.
Royal star of the north, the heart of the Lion. Leadership achieved by holding moral ground.
Gift, talent, protection. The star that signals natural ability rewarded.
Royal star of the west, the rival of Mars. Obsession that builds or destroys; intensity demanding restraint.
Artistic refinement, the harp star. Creative pursuits that bring magnetism and influence.
Royal star of the south, the mystic. Vision and spiritual aspiration with the risk of self-undoing.
How to use the Fixed Star Lab
›The tradition
Classical astrology read a small set of bright stars as potent when exactly conjunct a luminary or an angle: nothing else, no orbs beyond a degree or two, no other aspects. This lab follows that strict tradition: it tests the nine most-used stars against your Sun, Moon, Ascendant, Midheaven, Descendant, and IC within 2 degrees.
›Reading a contact
A star contact is a flavor laid over the point it touches, often described as a mythic assignment: Regulus on the Midheaven historically marked public elevation with a warning against revenge, Algol on a luminary marks intensity that must be channeled. Take the meanings as compressed folklore with a long observational pedigree, not as doom or destiny.
›Precision matters
Star positions here are epoch J2000 and drift about 50 arcseconds a year by precession, under a degree per human lifetime, well inside the 2 degree orb. Angle contacts depend on your birth time being right to within a few minutes.