Fixed Star Name : NODUS II
the Arabic At-Tinnin, "The great serpent".
Location Name : delta Draco
Apparent Magnitude : 3.2
Spectral Class : G8
Right Ascension : 19h 12m
Latitude : +82.53'
Declination (1900) : +67.29'
Declination (2000) : +67.39'
 
Longitudinal Position (in 1900) : 15 Aries 51
Longitudinal Position (in 2000) : 17 Aries 10
Its Planetary Nature : Saturn - Mars

About the star :

A deep yellow star marking the second of the four Knots, or convolutions, in the figure of the Dragon Draco.

 

Nodus secundus or Nodus 11 is the Arabic At-Tinnin, "The great serpent".

 

It was also called Altaisy, Altais, Al Tais, "the Goat", as the prominent one of the quadrangle, delta, pi, rho, and epsilon, which bore this title at a late period in Arabic indigenous astronomy.

 

Delta also may have been one of Firuzabadi's two undetermined stars Al Tayyasan, the Two Goatherds. (Allen).

 

 

Influence of the constellation :

"According to Ptolemy the bright stars are like Saturn and Mars. Draco gives an artistic and emotional but somber nature, a penetrating and analytical mind, much travel and many friends, but danger of robbery and accidental poisoning. It gives craft, ingenuity, and valor. The Ancients said that when a comet was here, poison was scattered over the world.

 

By the Kabalists it is associated with the Hebrew letter Mem and the 13th Tarot Trump, Death". (Robson).

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

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