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About this star: A star in the left hand of the Water Bearer Aquarius. The Arabic name for Albali is Al-Bali', "The swallower". It was the brightest one of the Arabic 21st manzil, Al Sa'd al Bula', "the Good Fortune of the Swallower", which included the stars mu, and nu. Kazwini said that this strange title came from the fact that the two outside stars were more open than alpha and beta of Capricorn, so that they seemed to swallow, or absorb, the light of the other! [Influences of the 21st mansion: Causes liberty of captives and heals the sick.] The same three were the Euphratean lunar asterism, the "Goat-fish", and the Coptic Upeuritos, "the Discoverer". Bayer mentioned for it Mantellum and Mantile, marking the Napkin or Towel held in the youth's hand (Ganymedes, the Cupbearer of the gods on Mount Olympus); but in some early drawings this was shown as a "Bunch of Grain Stalks". (Allen). Close to the helio planetary South Node of Neptune; 10AQU40 in 1900 - 11AQU46 in 2000, which might also give a Neptunian influence. |
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Influence of the constellation: The beauty of Ganymedes and his flight through the air link it to the ideas of personnel charm and aviation with which it is certainly connected. The Water Bearer is associated with the Hebrew letter Nun and the 14th Tarot Trump "Temperance". (Robson). |
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