In real practice, the few astrologers who use them consider some sixty fixed stars only, and most of the time, only 22 fixed stars of first magnitude (the biggest ones) are taken into account. Nowadays, nearly 150 fixed stars and their meanings are listed. For instance, André Boudineau, Edouard Symours, André Volguine, René Dumont, Paul Chacornac, William Lilly, or Vivian Robson, contributed in shedding light in this area of astrology which was not much used and not well-known yet.
Modern astrologers were also interested in the subject and went further in-depth.
In 130 B.C., the Greek astronomer Hipparcus of Nicea, and later, in 140 A.D., Ptolemy in his astronomy treaty entitled Almagest, described a great number of fixed stars with their meanings. The Ancients had rapidly understood that the most important stars, those they could observe, had an influence when they were in tight conjunction - less than 2° of orb, and even better, less than 30' of orb - with planets or angles of the natal chart. What is the exact meaning of "fixed" in fixed stars, since in the universe, everything is in a state of constant move? Actually, it is a wrong wording which is caused by the fact that by the traditional parameters used in astrology, the movements of planets, asteroids, the Sun and the Moon, as well as the division into astrological houses, the stars, which are not part of the solar system, seem almost motionless.Īctually, the fixed stars' position move by a few dozens of seconds of arc per year, 50.2 seconds to be more precise, which means one degree every 72 years, approximately.
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