Adhara
Epsilon Canis Majoris · Canis Major
Position (2026)
♋ 21°08' Cancer
Magnitude
1.50
Planetary Nature
Venus (robson)
Robson: Venus. Epsilon Canis Majoris.
Spectral Type
B2II
Appearance
A blue-white giant near the hindquarters of the Greater Dog, one of the brightest ultraviolet sources in the sky
Name Origin
Language
Arabic
Original Form
Al 'Adhārā
Meaning
The Virgins
Epsilon Canis Majoris. From the Arabic Al 'Adhārā, the Virgins. Part of a group of stars that formed a figure with this name in pre-Islamic Arabian star lore. Despite this plural name, it now refers to the single star. The second brightest star in Canis Major after Sirius.
Known As
Adhara in Astrology
Adhara, the second brightest star in Canis Major, carries Venus energy that bestows loyalty, devotion, and the capacity for enduring faithfulness. It grants a quality of committed service and the willingness to stand by those you love through all circumstances. You earn trust through demonstrated fidelity and possess a warm, devoted nature.
Mythology & History
Adhara takes its name from the Arabic al-Adhara, meaning 'the maidens' or 'the virgins,' referring to a group of stars in Canis Major that Arabian astronomers poetically described as maidens attending upon the brilliant Sirius. Adhara is the second-brightest star in Canis Major and one of the brightest sources of ultraviolet light in the sky. Despite its relative obscurity in Western astrological tradition, its Venus nature bestows a gentle, attractive quality unusual for a star in such a martial constellation.
Canis Major Context
Adhara sits near the hindquarters of Canis Major, the Great Dog that accompanies Orion across the winter sky. While Sirius at the dog's nose dominates attention, Adhara at the rear represents the loyal, steady presence that supports from behind the scenes. The constellation's mythology of faithful pursuit and relentless tracking gives Adhara a quality of devoted service combined with its inherent Venus charm.
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Natal Conjunctions
Find your conjunctions →Adhara Conjunct Sun
Adhara conjunct the Sun produces a personality of quiet brilliance and devoted loyalty. You shine not through self-promotion but through the quality of your committed service and the depth of your faithfulness. Identity is built around what you choose to serve with lasting dedication.
Adhara Conjunct Moon
Adhara conjunct the Moon creates an emotionally faithful nature with deep instincts for loyal attachment. Your feelings are steady and enduring rather than dramatic, and emotional security comes through bonds that have been tested by time and proven reliable.
Adhara Conjunct Mercury
Adhara conjunct Mercury gives a mind oriented toward supportive, loyal communication. You speak in service of others' understanding rather than for personal display, and intellectual work is most satisfying when it reliably serves a purpose beyond itself.
Adhara Conjunct Venus
Adhara conjunct Venus deepens the capacity for devoted, enduring love and beauty expressed through faithful service. You are attracted to partners whose constancy matches your own, and creative work carries a quality of gentle, sustained devotion rather than flashy brilliance.
Adhara Conjunct Mars
Adhara conjunct Mars channels physical energy into steadfast, loyal action on behalf of those you serve. You fight not for glory but for duty, and your courage expresses as the quiet willingness to maintain your post when others would have abandoned it.
Adhara Conjunct Jupiter
Adhara conjunct Jupiter expands loyal devotion into generous service on a broader scale. You bring faithfulness to causes and institutions beyond the personal, and your generosity has a reliable, sustained quality that builds trust across entire communities.
Adhara Conjunct Saturn
Adhara conjunct Saturn deepens loyal service into a lifetime vocation of disciplined, structured devotion. You accept duty as the foundation of meaningful work and build authority through years of demonstrated reliability. Constancy becomes its own form of strength.
Adhara Conjunct Uranus
Adhara conjunct Uranus brings unexpected dimensions to loyal service, finding unconventional ways to express faithfulness. You innovate within established commitments rather than abandoning them, and your loyalty evolves without weakening.
Adhara Conjunct Neptune
Adhara conjunct Neptune refines devoted service into spiritual or artistic devotion of exceptional sensitivity. You serve with an almost selfless quality, intuiting what is needed and offering it without demand for recognition. The risk is losing yourself entirely in service.
Adhara Conjunct Pluto
Adhara conjunct Pluto intensifies loyal devotion into a transformative force. Your faithfulness carries such depth that it permanently alters the dynamics of any relationship or institution you serve, and the quality of your commitment transforms both you and what you serve.
Adhara Conjunct North Node
Adhara conjunct the North Node orients destiny toward developing the capacity for devoted, faithful service. Your life path requires learning to serve with constancy and to find meaning through sustained, loyal commitment.
Adhara Conjunct Ascendant
Adhara on the Ascendant gives a quiet, steady presence that communicates reliability and gentle strength. Others sense immediately that you are someone who can be counted on, and your bearing projects a quality of calm, devoted competence.
Adhara Conjunct Midheaven
Adhara on the Midheaven builds a career through devoted, reliable service and the quiet brilliance of sustained professional commitment. Recognition comes not through self-promotion but through the accumulated evidence of years of faithful, excellent work.
Paran Interpretations
Parans describe what happens when Adhara and a planet simultaneously occupy the four angles (rising, culminating, setting, nadir) at a given location.
Adhara in Paran with Sun
Rising
Adhara rising with the Sun marks someone who enters life with natural loyalty and an instinct for devoted, faithful service.
Culminating
Adhara culminating with the Sun places devoted service and quiet professional brilliance at the peak of public recognition.
Setting
Adhara setting with the Sun suggests a legacy of faithful commitment and reliable service recognized in the reflective later years.
At the Nadir
Adhara at the nadir with the Sun reveals a deeply private loyalty and devotional constancy that form the hidden engine of all achievement.
Adhara in Paran with Moon
Rising
Adhara rising with the Moon instills early emotional faithfulness and deep, steady instincts for loyal attachment.
Culminating
Adhara culminating with the Moon brings devoted emotional loyalty to its most visible and publicly recognized expression.
Setting
Adhara setting with the Moon indicates emotional bonds of remarkable constancy that deepen into unbreakable loyalty with age.
At the Nadir
Adhara at the nadir with the Moon conceals a profoundly faithful emotional nature that operates as the quiet center of all relationships.
Adhara in Paran with Mercury
Rising
Adhara rising with Mercury bestows early reliability in communication and a talent for speech that serves rather than displays.
Culminating
Adhara culminating with Mercury elevates supportive, reliable communication to the highest standard of professional service.
Setting
Adhara setting with Mercury suggests communication skills that grow more faithfully supportive and practically useful with age.
At the Nadir
Adhara at the nadir with Mercury reveals a hidden commitment to truthful, supportive thinking that quietly shapes all expression.
Adhara in Paran with Venus
Rising
Adhara rising with Venus shapes early love and beauty with steady, devoted faithfulness and gentle warmth.
Culminating
Adhara culminating with Venus brings recognition for love and art expressed with quiet devotion and enduring constancy.
Setting
Adhara setting with Venus suggests love that grows more faithful, gentle, and deeply sustaining through the passage of years.
At the Nadir
Adhara at the nadir with Venus conceals a private devotion of extraordinary constancy that quietly enriches all creative and romantic life.
Adhara in Paran with Mars
Rising
Adhara rising with Mars channels early physical energy into steadfast service and the loyal defense of duty.
Culminating
Adhara culminating with Mars places devoted, courageous service at the apex of professional life and public recognition.
Setting
Adhara setting with Mars indicates the courage to serve that matures from youthful energy into seasoned, reliable commitment.
At the Nadir
Adhara at the nadir with Mars conceals quiet reserves of loyal fighting energy that emerge steadily when duty calls.
Adhara in Paran with Jupiter
Rising
Adhara rising with Jupiter expands early devotion into generous, broad-based service and faithful institutional commitment.
Culminating
Adhara culminating with Jupiter brings peak achievement through generous, reliable service on an expansive scale.
Setting
Adhara setting with Jupiter indicates growing generosity and expanding faithful service in the later, reflective years.
At the Nadir
Adhara at the nadir with Jupiter reveals a vast inner well of generous loyalty that quietly sustains all outward service.
Adhara in Paran with Saturn
Rising
Adhara rising with Saturn demands early acceptance of duty and the disciplined cultivation of faithful, reliable habits.
Culminating
Adhara culminating with Saturn achieves the deepest professional authority through decades of unwavering, devoted service.
Setting
Adhara setting with Saturn builds an enduring legacy of constancy and duty recognized as the highest form of professional strength.
At the Nadir
Adhara at the nadir with Saturn establishes an inner commitment to duty so deep that it operates as the invisible foundation of character.
Adhara in Paran with Ascendant
Rising
Adhara rising with the Ascendant stamps the personality with quiet reliability, gentle strength, and visible loyalty.
Culminating
Adhara culminating with the Ascendant projects devoted, faithful presence onto the broadest possible stage.
Setting
Adhara setting with the Ascendant draws others who sense your quiet constancy and trust it instinctively.
At the Nadir
Adhara at the nadir with the Ascendant grounds personal identity in a deeply private commitment to faithful, devoted service.
Adhara in Paran with Midheaven
Rising
Adhara rising with the Midheaven launches a career oriented toward devoted service and reliable professional commitment.
Culminating
Adhara culminating with the Midheaven represents peak career achievement through quiet, sustained professional devotion.
Setting
Adhara setting with the Midheaven indicates a career legacy of faithful service and steady excellence honored long after.
At the Nadir
Adhara at the nadir with the Midheaven builds career success on hidden foundations of duty, loyalty, and patient commitment.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does the name Adhara mean?
The name Adhara comes from Arabic: Al 'Adhārā, meaning "The Virgins." Epsilon Canis Majoris. The star is known by 2 different cultural names across world traditions.
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