About this star:

A pale yellow star in the spear-shaft of Bootes the Herdsman or Ox-Driver.

Princeps means "Prince" in Latin.

In China it was part of Tseih Kong, "the Seven Princes".

Beta (Nekkar), gamma (Seginus), this star delta (Princeps), and mu (Alkalurops), constituted the trapezium Al Dhi'bah, "the Female Wolves", or perhaps "Hyaenas", an early asterism of the Arabs before they adopted the Greek constellations; these animals, with others similar shown by stars in Draco and near it, lying in wait for the occupants of the ancient Fold around the pole. (Allen).

Bootes is the cultivator or Ploughman who drives the Bears, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor around the Pole Star, Polaris. The bears, tied to the Polar Axis, are pulling a plough behind them, tilling the heavenly fields "in order that the rotations of the heavens should never cease".

Manilius 1st century AD writes "they will be kings under kings and ministers of state, and be charged with the guardianship of the people, custodianship of great houses and treasures, who confine their business to the care of another's home so that the wealth of monarchs and temple finances will be in their keeping".

Any type of occupation that requires planning is influenced by Bootes. These people are the driving force behind government and large corporations. They are the planners and designers, the movers and shakers, who "make the world go round". Bootes symbolizes the elder, the sage, the wise old man who is interested in principles and underlying causes, theories, ideologies, and how the past effects the future. (Conservative) politicians, economists, draftsmen, architects, designers of all kinds.

This constellation is associated with the Hermit in the Tarot cards.

Oswald Wirth in The Tarot of the Magicians portrays this character:

Depicted wearing a cloak with a hood that covers him from head to feet; except for his face and hands he is completely undercover. Held up in his right hand is a lighted lantern, a walking stick in his left, with a serpent on the ground nearby. With his cane he taps and sounds out the earth as he advances slowly. Rather than kill the serpent he casts a spell on it so that it twirls around his stick suggesting that he works along with the lower energies. The lantern penetrates and searches out and reveals the inner quality of things.

The hermit is the master who works on the drawing board, where he casts the exact plan of the intended construction. Before taking form everything pre-exists as an abstract concept, as an intention, he represents the mysterious artisan, the drawn-up plan, the scaffold without which no vital construction could be made, the prototype putting the stamp of the species on the individual, the astral body of the occultist. He is the master capable of directing the work of others and of discerning what is in the embryo in the sphere of human development.

The Tarot of Bologna replaces the Hermit by a winged Patriarch who walks with difficulty, bent over two crutches, from his belt hangs a purse which contains the heritage of the past. He reminds one of Saturn, god of Time seen as the eternal continuation always on the move to conquer the future which he imperceptibly unfolds from the past. (The Tarot of the Magicians 1927 by Oswald Wirth).

The winged Patriarch mentioned above who walks with difficulty, bent over two crutches can manifest through Bootes in the aging disease progeria, and all types of conditions that require the use of canes, crutches, or wheelchairs.

Influence of the constellation:

"It is said to give prosperity from work, strong desires, a tendency to excess, a fondness for rural pursuits, together with some liking for occultism. The Kabalists associate it with the Hebrew letter Teth and the 9th Tarot Trump, The Hermit". (Robson).

Influence of the star:

A keen studious and profound mind with the ability for research. (Robson).

Rising:

Good fortune but troubles, discontent and fear occasioned by own temerity rather than circumstances. (Robson).