Kerb, or Salm, at 01°03′ Aries has an orb of 1°10′
Constellation Pegasus [Stellarium]
Tau Pegasi is a 5th magnitude single star in the constellation Pegasus. Magnitude variable 4.58, spectral type A5 Vp.
The star bore the traditional names Salm, Kerb (or El Khereb) and Markab (often spelled Markeb), a name shared with Alpha Pegasi, k Puppis and Kappa Velorum. In 2016, Tau Pegasi was officially named Salm, Alpha Pegasi was named Markab, and Kappa Velorum was named Markeb. A Salm is a leather bucket.
| 2000* | 2050 | Name | Orb |
| 23♓29 | 24♓11 | Markab | 2°10′ |
| 29♓23 | 00♈04 | Scheat | 2°10′ |
| 01♈02 | 01♈45 | Kerb | 1°10′ |
| 02♈35 | 03♈17 | Deneb Kaitos | 2°10′ |
| 09♈09 | 09♈51 | Algenib | 2°00′ |
Kerb Astrology
Fixed star Kerb has the spectral class A5, indicating the planetary nature of Venus.
Fixed star Kerb portends an indirect danger, as from a jilted lover. [1]
SPECTRAL CLASS A: Great honors, artistic appreciation, unexpected gains, good fortune, riches, good judgment, sociableness, creativeness, idealism, and impulsiveness. Challenging aspects cause wantonness, indiscretion, scandals, foolhardiness, destructiveness, cleverness, many anxious moments and self-seeking nature. A variable star adds a tendency to be argumentative, inconstant and unreliable. [2]
Constellation Pegasus
According to Ptolemy the bright stars are like Mars and Mercury. The constellation gives ambition, vanity, intuition, enthusiasm, caprice and bad judgment. It prevails against the diseases of horses and preserves horse riders in battle. [1]
The constellation portends events concerning ships and the ocean and also changes in the weather. In medieval times it was said to indicate vain individuals with a great deal of ambition but very poor judgment. [1]
Pegasus, like birds, angels, and most celestial winged creatures, is an allegory for the superior spiritual power that the hero first sought out to aid him in his task, and the Owl represents the wisdom side of that same power. [4]
In mundane astrology, Pegasus is associated with drowning, accidents, catastrophes, earthquakes, tsunamis, storms, floods, shipwrecks, mining accidents, airplane accidents, falling accidents, shooting down from high, horses, jockeys, transportation, communications, space travel, exploration, pioneering, science, invention and heroism.
Tau Pegasi, Salm, Kerb [theskylive.com]
Kerb Conjunctions
Ascendant conjunct Kerb: Good fortune, happiness, gifts, fortunate for love and marriage, gain by legacies and inheritance. (Venus nature) [3]
Pegasus the winged Horse will appear and gallop aloft in the heavens. It will bring forth people endowed with swiftness of movement and limbs alert to perform every task. One man will cause his horse to wheel round in caracoles, and proudly mounted on its back he will wage war from on high; horseman and soldier in one. Another will possess the ability to rob the racecourse of its true length such is his speed that he will seem to dissemble the movement of his feet and make the ground vanish before him. Who more swiftly could fly back from the ends of the earth as a messenger or with light foot to the earth’s ends make his way? He will also heal a horse’s wounds with the sap of common plants, and will know the herbs which bring aid to an animal’s limbs and those which grow for the use of man. [5]
Equus arises in the 21st degree of Pisces. Those who are born with this constellation rising will be in charge of racers, charioteers, drivers, horsemen, dispatch-riders, scouts, and sometimes physicians, but those who compaound remedies from herbs for men and cattle. [6]
Midheaven conjunct Kerb: Honor and success, dealings with and help through women, success in occupations of a Venus nature. [3]
Descendant conjunct Kerb: But if this constellation is found on the DSC with the malefic stars, they will be badly injured, either by a kick from a hoof, or from being thrown down [from a horse] or it will make them to die from an overturned carriage, and shattered with a miserable injury to the body. [6]
Ira Einhorn 0°56′, Shirley MacLaine 0°58′.
Sun conjunct Kerb: Ayrton Senna 0°07′.Â
Moon conjunct Kerb: Simone de Beauvoir 0°12′ (and Mars).Â
Mars conjunct Kerb: Simone de Beauvoir 1°11′ (and Moon).Â
References
- Fixed Stars and Judicial Astrology, George Noonan, 1990, p.30.
- The Power of the Fixed Stars, Joseph E. Rigor, 1979, p.245-246.
- Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology, Vivian E. Robson, 1923, p.56, 100, 231.
- The Living Stars, Dr. Eric Morse, 1988, p.127.
- Astronomica, Marcus Manilius, (1st century AD), p.350-353.
- Mathesis, Julius Firmicus Maternus, 336 AD, xvii.3.
- Star positions are for the year 2000. Add one degree per 72 years to correct for precession.