Etamin at 27°58′ Sagittarius has an orb of 2°10′

The Sun joins Etamin on December 20

Fixed star Etamin, Gamma Draconis, is a 2.2 magnitude orange star located in the right eye of the Dragon, Draco Constellation. The traditional name Etamin comes from the Arabic word التنين (At-Tinnin) which means The Great Serpent. Etamin was previously called Rastaban, now used for Beta Draconis, Alwaid. Both names derive from Arabic words for serpent or dragon.

Despite its gamma designation, Etamin is actually the brightest star in Draco, with its 2.2 magnitude outshining the 2.8 magnitude Alwaid. It is close to the the zenith point directly overhead of London, so has earned it the name Zenith Star.

Etamin was worshiped from at least 3500 B.C in Egypt.  Its was visible through the central passages of the temples of Hathor at Denderah and of Mut at Thebes. At Thebes in Greece, the City of the Dragon, a temple was aligned to this star Etamin around 1130 B.C.

Etamin Star Astrology

Fixed star Etamin, the “right eye of the Dragon”, gamma Draco has a Saturn-Jupiter nature (dignified, pious, conservative, acquisitive, retentive) with Martian influence. According to tradition, the Saturnian predominance will give a liking for solitude. Good mental concentration. [3]

In the narrow longitudinal space between Aculeus and Acumen is the star Etamin, γ Draconis, chief star and one of the eyes of Draco the Dragon Constellation, and it may well be that it was this one which caused the other two to be so much associated with eyesight. But Etamin seems not to have been noticed by Ptolemy.

Etamin, γ Draconis os another Arabic form of  The Dragon’s Head. The planetary simile is Mars-Moon. Since both this star and its namesake Rastaban (Alwaid) are commonly regarded as the two Eyes in the Head, there may be something here of the old notion that one’s right eye sees good, the left eye evil. Mars-Moon is never popular as a combination in astrology, for it often does show the inclination to look on the black side of things. We are here looking perhaps at the source of that morbid tendency in us, with the strength of Hercules to slay it for us. In those who do overcome their own states of anxiety, revealed by Mars-Moon, there is always the power to heal others also. [4]

It is interesting to know that the Boeotian Thebes, the City of the Dragon, from the story of its founder, Cadmus, shared with its Egyptian namesake the worship of this star in a temple dedicated, so far as its orientation shows, about 1130 B.C.: a cult doubtless drawn from the parent city in Egypt, and adopted elsewhere in Greece, as also in Italy in the little temple to Isis in Pompeii. Here, however, the city authorities interfered with this star-worship in one of their numerous raids on the astrologers, and bricked up the opening whence the star was observed. [5]

Constellation Draco

Draco gives an artistic and emotional but somber nature, a penetrating and analytical mind, much travel and many friends but danger of robbery and of accidental poisoning. It was said by the Ancients that when a comet was here poison was scattered over the world. Draco is like Saturn and Mars (bold, cruel, heartless, adulterous, criminal, liar, loss of estates, poverty, few friends. if of 1st magnitude, rises by usury or unfair means. If culminating, bad name, rise by trade followed by disgrace and ruin.) [1]

The early astrologers called Draco “The Poisonous Dragon”. The constellation is especially hurtful to mineral resources, and presages the pollution of rivers and the air. The Moon’s Nodes are named after this constellation. The Dragon’s Head (North Node) and the Dragon’s Tail (South Node) refer to the Moon’s undulating course symbolized by the twisting of the Dragon about the North Pole. [4]

19th Arabic Manzil – Al Shaulah

Helps in besieging cities, taking towns, driving men from their places, destruction of seamen and captives.

With Moon: Buy cattle, hunt but do not marry.

6th Chinese Xiù – 尾 (Wěi) Tail

Fortunate for building and negotiating marriages (which resulted in rich descendants), inheritances and education. This Chinese lunar mansion denotes the finding of hidden treasure and promotion to high office. Succession, the heir-apparent and the women’s apartments where he is brought up. That which separates wood from water. Victory and success are around the corner.

Etamin Star Conjunctions

Ascendant conjunct Etamin: Prince William of Cambridge 0°13′, Sylvester Stallone 1°18′, Warren Buffett 1°29′

Midheaven conjunct Etamin: Honor and preferment (Saturn-Jupiter)

Descendant conjunct Etamin: Timothy McVeigh 0°35′, LeBron James 1°17′, Theodore Roosevelt 1°22′, RuPaul 1°50′

Part of Fortune conjunct Etamin: Yoko Ono 0°16′, James Dean 2°04′

Sun conjunct Etamin: Uri Geller 0°19′, Steven Spielberg 0°45′, Billie Eilish 1°01′ (and South Node), Pope Francis I 1°09′, Brad Pitt 1°34′, Sarah Paulson 1°45′, Emmanuel Macron 1°46′

Moon conjunct Etamin: Henri Matisse 0°48′, Nigel Farage 0°58′, Adele 1°35′

Mercury conjunct Etamin: Emperor Nero 0°08′, Kirk Douglas 0°57′, Francisco Franco 2°03′

Venus conjunct Etamin: Tony Abbott 0°40′

Mars conjunct Etamin: Vladimir Putin 0°47′, Rihanna 0°55′, Agatha Christie 1°29′

Jupiter conjunct Etamin: Allison DuBois 0°01′, Elizabeth I 1°21′, Ben Shapiro 1°28′ (and Neptune), Vincent van Gogh 1°39′

Saturn conjunct Etamin: This fixed star is said to tally with dishonor, downfall and loss of prestige if conjunction Saturn on the Midheaven or Horizon (Ascendant or Descendant). If this Saturn, however, is well placed otherwise, this star is said to be helpful for mental concentration and gives a liking for philosophical and esoteric studies. [3]

Conor McGregor 0°14′ (and Uranus), Anne Frank 0°42′, Martin Luther King 1°36′

Uranus conjunct Etamin: Jeane Dixon 0°16′, Conor McGregor 0°17′ (and Saturn), Martin Luther 1°58′, Queen Victoria 2°05′, Novak Djokovic 2°06′, Zoë Kravitz 2°08′ 

Neptune conjunct Etamin: Karl Marx 0°41′, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex 0°54′, Amy Winehouse 1°15′, Katy Perry 1°28′, Khloé Kardashian 2°05′, Ben Shapiro 2°09′ (and Jupiter)

South Node conjunct Etamin: Billie Eilish 0°54′ (and Sun), Liza Minnelli 1°11′, Sara Aldrete 1°28′, Kamala Harris 1°41′ 

References

1. Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology, Vivian E. Robson, 1923, p.43, 194.
2. Fixed Stars and Judicial Astrology, George Noonan, 1990, p.10.
3. Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation, Elsbeth Ebertin, 1971, p.70.
4. The Living Stars, Dr. Eric Morse, 1988, p.87, 159.
5. Draco, the Dragon, Star Names Their Lore and Meaning, Richard Hinckley Allen, 1963.

• All fixed star positions are for the year 2000. Add one degree per 72 years to correct for precession.

Last Updated on January 17, 2023 by Jamie