Algenib
Gamma Pegasi · Pegasus
Position (2026)
♈ 9°32' Aries
Magnitude
2.83
Planetary Nature
Mars / Mercury (robson)
Spectral Type
B2IV
Appearance
A blue-white pulsating variable at the tip of the wing of Pegasus
Name Origin
Language
Arabic
Original Form
Al Janb
Meaning
The Flank, the Side
Gamma Pegasi. From the Arabic Al Janb, the Flank or Side, referring to the horse's body. One of the four stars of the Great Square of Pegasus. The name Algenib has historically been applied to several different stars (including Alpha Persei), causing some confusion in older catalogs.
Known As
Algenib in Astrology
Algenib, in the wing of Pegasus, combines Mars-Mercury energy to produce sharp, assertive mental faculties and the courage to speak boldly. It bestows intellectual combativeness and a talent for persuasion through forceful argument. You think quickly under pressure and communicate with decisive authority.
Mythology & History
Algenib takes its name from the Arabic al-Janb, meaning 'the side' or 'the flank,' describing its position in the wing of Pegasus. The winged horse Pegasus sprang from the blood of Medusa when Perseus beheaded her, born simultaneously with the warrior Chrysaor. Pegasus was later tamed by Bellerophon with a golden bridle given by Athena, and together they defeated the Chimera. But when Bellerophon tried to ride Pegasus to Mount Olympus, Zeus sent a gadfly that stung the horse, throwing the presumptuous rider back to earth while Pegasus continued upward to become a constellation.
Pegasus Context
Algenib marks the southeastern corner of the Great Square of Pegasus, one of the most prominent asterisms in the autumn sky. The Great Square represents the body of the winged horse, and Algenib sits where the wing meets the flank. Its Mars-Mercury nature gives it the quality of swift, forceful intellectual energy, appropriate for a constellation associated with the power of flight, inspiration, and the dangerous consequences of overreaching. Pegasus' mythology warns against hubris while celebrating the divine gift of imagination.
Learn more about Pegasus and its stars.
Natal Conjunctions
Find your conjunctions →Algenib Conjunct Moon
Algenib conjunct the Moon creates emotional instincts of sharp, mentally driven responsiveness. Your feelings accelerate toward ambitious expression, and emotional security comes through the clarity of intellectually processed feeling.
Algenib Conjunct Mercury
Algenib conjunct Mercury gives a mind of exceptional sharpness and ambitious, forcefully communicated intelligence. You think quickly under pressure and communicate with decisive authority, though the speed of your thinking can outpace its thoroughness.
Algenib Conjunct Venus
Algenib conjunct Venus brings sharp intellectual ambition to love and creative expression. You pursue beauty and attraction with mentally driven assertiveness and create with a quality of ambitious, sharply articulated aesthetic vision.
Algenib Conjunct Mars
Algenib conjunct Mars amplifies sharp mental assertiveness into aggressively ambitious intellectual action. You fight through the force and speed of your thinking, and competition is won through superior mental aggression and quick tactical adaptation.
Algenib Conjunct Jupiter
Algenib conjunct Jupiter expands ambitious mental sharpness into broad, forcefully communicated philosophical vision. You pursue large intellectual goals with assertive confidence and the combined force of mental speed and philosophical scope.
Algenib Conjunct Saturn
Algenib conjunct Saturn disciplines ambitious mental sharpness into sustained, carefully measured intellectual force. You learn that the most effective bold communication requires preparation, and your assertive intellect matures into formidable, tested authority.
Algenib Conjunct Uranus
Algenib conjunct Uranus electrifies ambitious mental sharpness with sudden, brilliant breakthroughs. You arrive at insights with startling speed and communicate them with a force that catches others completely unprepared.
Algenib Conjunct Neptune
Algenib conjunct Neptune infuses assertive mental sharpness with intuitive intellectual reach. You grasp ambitious ideas through inspiration as much as analysis, and your bold communication carries a quality of inspired, almost visionary assertion.
Algenib Conjunct Pluto
Algenib conjunct Pluto transforms ambitious mental sharpness into a profoundly penetrating, transformative intellectual force. Your assertive communication reaches depths that permanently alter how others understand what you have addressed.
Algenib Conjunct North Node
Algenib conjunct the North Node orients destiny toward developing the sharp, ambitious mental force and bold communicative courage to reach intellectual heights that reward daring.
Algenib Conjunct Ascendant
Algenib on the Ascendant gives a sharp, mentally assertive presence that communicates ambitious intellectual energy. Others sense your quick, forceful thinking and the bold quality of your communicative drive.
Algenib Conjunct Midheaven
Algenib on the Midheaven builds a career through sharp, ambitiously forceful professional communication. Recognition comes through the speed, boldness, and assertive quality of your intellectual contributions.
Paran Interpretations
Parans describe what happens when Algenib and a planet simultaneously occupy the four angles (rising, culminating, setting, nadir) at a given location.
Algenib in Paran with Sun
Rising
Algenib rising with the Sun marks someone who enters life with sharp mental assertiveness and ambitious intellectual drive.
Culminating
Algenib culminating with the Sun places bold, sharply driven intellectual achievement at the peak of public recognition.
Setting
Algenib setting with the Sun suggests a legacy of ambitiously sharp communication and bold intellectual contributions.
At the Nadir
Algenib at the nadir with the Sun reveals deeply private reserves of ambitious mental sharpness that power all outward assertiveness.
Algenib in Paran with Moon
Rising
Algenib rising with the Moon instills early emotional mental quickness and assertively driven feeling.
Culminating
Algenib culminating with the Moon brings sharply driven emotional expression to its most publicly forceful form.
Setting
Algenib setting with the Moon indicates emotional mental sharpness that matures from speed into assertive depth.
At the Nadir
Algenib at the nadir with the Moon conceals sharp emotional mental drive that operates beneath assertive surfaces.
Algenib in Paran with Mercury
Rising
Algenib rising with Mercury bestows exceptional early mental speed and talent for ambitiously bold communication.
Culminating
Algenib culminating with Mercury elevates sharply assertive, ambitiously driven thinking to the highest professional level.
Setting
Algenib setting with Mercury suggests a mind that channels ambitious sharpness into increasingly precise bold expression.
At the Nadir
Algenib at the nadir with Mercury reveals hidden reserves of ambitious mental assertiveness beneath forceful communication.
Algenib in Paran with Venus
Rising
Algenib rising with Venus shapes early love with mentally driven ambition and sharply assertive creative beauty.
Culminating
Algenib culminating with Venus brings recognition for art and love expressed with ambitious, sharply driven force.
Setting
Algenib setting with Venus suggests creative expression that channels ambitious mental drive into increasingly bold beauty.
At the Nadir
Algenib at the nadir with Venus conceals ambitious creative drive and sharp aesthetic assertiveness beneath a composed exterior.
Algenib in Paran with Mars
Rising
Algenib rising with Mars channels early energy into sharply ambitious, mentally assertive competitive action.
Culminating
Algenib culminating with Mars places ambitiously sharp fighting intelligence at the apex of competitive achievement.
Setting
Algenib setting with Mars indicates mentally sharp fighting ability that grows more ambitiously effective with experience.
At the Nadir
Algenib at the nadir with Mars conceals reserves of sharply ambitious fighting drive deployed with mental assertiveness.
Algenib in Paran with Jupiter
Rising
Algenib rising with Jupiter expands early mental sharpness into broad, ambitiously bold philosophical communication.
Culminating
Algenib culminating with Jupiter brings peak achievement through expansive, sharply assertive intellectual leadership.
Setting
Algenib setting with Jupiter indicates growing scope for ambitious bold thinking in the later years.
At the Nadir
Algenib at the nadir with Jupiter reveals vast inner ambitious mental drive and philosophical assertiveness.
Algenib in Paran with Saturn
Rising
Algenib rising with Saturn demands early discipline in tempering ambitious mental sharpness with measured preparation.
Culminating
Algenib culminating with Saturn achieves lasting authority through decades of disciplined, ambitiously sharp professional thinking.
Setting
Algenib setting with Saturn builds an enduring reputation for bold communication refined by decades of tested discipline.
At the Nadir
Algenib at the nadir with Saturn establishes inner reserves of disciplined ambitious mental force.
Algenib in Paran with Ascendant
Rising
Algenib rising with the Ascendant stamps the personality with sharp, ambitiously assertive mental presence.
Culminating
Algenib culminating with the Ascendant projects bold, sharply driven intellectual force onto the broadest stage.
Setting
Algenib setting with the Ascendant draws others who respect your ambitious mental sharpness and bold assertion.
At the Nadir
Algenib at the nadir with the Ascendant grounds identity in deeply private ambitious mental drive.
Algenib in Paran with Midheaven
Rising
Algenib rising with the Midheaven launches a career defined by ambitiously sharp, boldly assertive professional communication.
Culminating
Algenib culminating with the Midheaven represents peak career achievement through sharply ambitious intellectual leadership.
Setting
Algenib setting with the Midheaven indicates a career legacy of bold intellectual contributions valued for their ambitious sharpness.
At the Nadir
Algenib at the nadir with the Midheaven builds career success on hidden foundations of ambitious mental assertiveness.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does the name Algenib mean?
The name Algenib comes from Arabic: Al Janb, meaning "The Flank, the Side." Gamma Pegasi. The star is known by 2 different cultural names across world traditions.
Lunar Mansions
Algenib serves as the determinant star for these 3 lunar mansions across different traditions.
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