About this star:

A star on the right hand of the Serpent Bearer Ophiuchus the hand that is holding the tail of the serpent Serpens.

Influence of the constellation:

It is said to give a passionate, blindly good-hearted, wasteful and easily seduced nature, together with little happiness, unseen dangers, enmity, strife and slander. Pliny said that it occasioned much mortality by poisoning. This constellation has also been called Aesculapius and held to rule medicines. By the Kabalists it is associated with the Hebrew letter Oin and the 16th Tarot Trump "The Lightning Struck Tower". (Robson).

Influence of the star:

It gives an immoral, mean and slovenly nature. (Robson).

Associated with depravity. (Larousse Encyclopedia of Astrology).

Rising: When Ophiuchus, encircled by the serpent's great coils, rises he renders the forms of snakes innocuous to those born under him. They will receive snakes into the folds of their flowing robes, and will exchange kisses with these poisonous monsters and suffer no harm. (Manilus, book 5 of Astronomica, 1st century AD).

Moon: Lustful, wanton, infamous, scandalous, addicted to sorcery and poisoning. (Robson).