About the star :

A double and probably binary, 3.9 and 5.5, pale green and blue, in the Knot of the Cord that binds the two Fishes of Pisces.

Alrisha is also called Okda from the Arabic Al-'Uqdah, "The knot".

Variations on Alrisha are Al Rescha, Al Rischa, Al Risha', or Ar-Risha'. This word originally may have come from the Babylonian Riksu, "Cord".

Classic Greek names were Sundesmos and Desmos. They were rendered by Cicero and others as Nodus, Nodus coelestis, and Nodus Piscium; by Pliny as Commissura Piscium; and in the 1515 Almagest as Nodus duorum filorum.

The Arabians translated these as 'Ukd al H'aitam, Okda and Kaitain.

The uniting cords, branching from alpha through omicron, pi, eta, and rho to the tail of the northernmost Fish, and through xi, nu, mu, f,  zeta, epsilon, and delta to omega that marks the tail of the one to the south, the one Ptolemy's called... "thread," Cicero called them Vincla, the "Bonds"; and the scholiast on Germanicus, Alligamentum linteum or luteum, divided by Hevelius into Linum boreum "North Line" and Linum austrinum "South Line". (Some of these terms also were applied to the star delta as marking one of the cords).

The Arabians knew these cords as Al H'ait al Kattaniyy, "the Flaxen Thread"; and Al Asma'i, about the year 800, mentioned them in his celebrated romance Antarah as a distinct constellation; but Pliny had done the same long before him. (Allen).

This star that binds the Fishes together has a unifying influence.

Influence of the constellaion :

The Fishes are associated with the Hebrew letter Pe and the 17th Tarot Trump "The Stars". (Robson). 

Remember, only the parallel and conjunction are important and the orb must be no more than 1 (one) degree.