About this star:

A double star, 3.1 and 8.5 magnitude, pale yellow and purple. It is on the right wing, and at the upper left corner of the square of the Crow, Corvus.

The Arabic name for Algorab is Al-Ghurab, "The raven".

It was a star in the 11th Hindu nakshatra, Hasta, the Hand, with Savitar, the Sun, as its presiding divinity; this star, delta, marking the junction with Citra (Spica), the next lunar station. [Influences of the 11th Hindu Mansion: favorable for sales, art, sculpture, learning, marital love, wearing of ornaments, medicine, and purchase of carriages when containing the Moon. Those born on the lunar day will be thieves, dealers in large animals, painters, merchants, handsome and religious (Robson)]. (Allen).

Influence of the constellation:

According to Ptolemy, Corvus is like Mars and Saturn. It is said to give craftiness, greediness, ingenuity, patience, revengefulness, passion, selfishness, lying, aggressiveness and material instincts, and sometimes causes its natives to become agitators. (Robson).

General Influence of the star:

It gives destructiveness, malevolence, fiendishness, repulsiveness and lying, and is connected with scavenging. (Robson).

A Mars-Saturn star that can show up the more troublesome side of Libra, a variation on the truth when an excuse looks to be safer. (Dr Eric Morse).

Delays and restraint are indicated to come about by fiascoes, losses, wrong handling of matters and enmity in general. Accidents or injuries, difficult to avoid. (Ebertin).