About the star : This star, plus Alnilam and Alnitak form the Belt of Orion the Hunter. Mintaka is a double and slightly variable, 2.5 and 6.8, brilliant white and pale violet. Mintaka at the west end is the first star of the belt stars seen to rise. Astrologers considered it of importance as portending good fortune. (Allen).

The Belt of Orion : Epsilon Alnilam, zeta Alnitak, and delta Mintaka form the Belt of Orion. One of the most recognizable features of the night sky is the three stars that form the "belt" across the middle of Orion. Mintaka, the westernmost star in the belt, comes from the Arabic word for "belt". Alnilam, the center star in the belt, means "a belt of pearls". Alnitak, the eastern-most star, means the girdle. 

To the Arabs they were known as, "Accurate Scale-beam".

The Chinese similarly knew them as a Weighing-beam, with the stars of the sword as a weight at one end.

The ancient Jews sometimes called these stars "Nimrod", a biblical figure who was bound to the heavens for disobeying God, whence perhaps came the "Bands", or "Bonds", of Orion.

It is often "the Magi", the "Three Kings", the "Three Marys", or simply the "Three Stars". 

The celestial equator now passes through the Belt, but was 12° (latitude) below it 4000 years ago. (Allen).

Influence of the constellation : It is said to give a strong and dignified nature, self-confidence, inconstancy, arrogance, violence, impiety, and prosperity in trade and particularly in voyages or abroad, but danger of treachery and poison. 

It was thought by the Romans to be very harmful to cattle and productive of storms.

By the Kabalists it is associated with the Hebrew letter Aleph and the 1st card of the Tarot major arcana, The Juggler (or The Magician). (Robson).

General influence of the star Mintaka : According to Ptolemy it is of the nature of Saturn and Mercury; and, to Alvidas, of Mercury, Saturn and Jupiter. It gives good fortune. (Robson).

General influence of the Cingula Orionis (Orion's Belt) : The joint influence is to give strength, energy, industry, organizing abilities, notoriety, good fortune, lasting happiness, a sharp mind and a good memory. (Robson).

Good fortune as regards the growing of grain crops. "Passionately devoted to hunting, but not noble hunting with falcon or bow". Excellent fishermen. Treacherous, irreligious. All kinds of dangers. A shrew, in a female chart, rising and aspected by both Mars and a benefic. (Noonan).

Cingula Orionis with a malefic and the Moon at the same time with Markab (23 Pisces), death at human hands. (Robson).

Rising: Orion will fashion alert minds and agile bodies, souls prompt to respond to duty's call, and hearts which press on with unflagging energy in spite of every trial. A son of Orion's will be worth a multitude and will seem to dwell in every quarter of the city; flying from door to door with the one word of morning greeting, he will enjoy the friendship of all. (Manilus Astronomica 1st century AD).

Cingula Orionis rising: Legacies, love or dissipation, gravity and austerity. (Robson).

Mintaka with Sun:  Discreet, cautious, somewhat changeable. (Robson).

Cingula Orionis with Sun: Notoriety, good fortune, lasting happiness. (Robson).

Mintaka with the Moon: Active, sharp, alert in business, public position, many enemies more successful in business. (Robson)

Cingula Orionis with Moon: Blindness of at least one eye, new and influential friends, valuable gifts, love of respectable women. If a malefic be with Markab, drowning. If the moon is with Saturn also, drowning and assassination. (Robson).

With Mercury:  Studious, fond of seclusion, deliberate and fixed mind, little sympathy or disagreements with relatives, bad for gain. (Robson).

With Venus:  Public position, enmity of women, love disappointments. (Robson).

With Mars:  Energetic, quick mind, good speaker arid debater, quarrelsome, strong passions. (Robson).

With Jupiter:  High position in law or church, studious and philosophical mind, gain through inheritance. (Robson).

With Uranus:  Selfish, studious, eccentric, difficult to get on with, losses through lawsuits and business, successful in middle age but poverty at end of life, favorable for domestic matters, death from consumption. (Robson).

With Neptune:  Thoughtful, studious, keeps discoveries to himself, sarcastic writer, generous but not wealthy, marries, death unattended in old age. (Robson).