Algorab
BehenianDelta Corvi · Corvus
Position (2026)
♎ 13°49' Libra
Magnitude
2.94
Planetary Nature
Mars / Saturn (robson)
Spectral Type
B9.5V
Appearance
A white double star of pale yellow and purple on the right wing of the Crow
Behenian Correspondences
Gemstone
Onyx
Plant
Burdock
Read: The 15 Behenian Stars → background on Agrippa's list, the magical tradition, and how each star was historically used.
Name Origin
Language
Arabic
Original Form
Al Ghurāb
Meaning
The Crow, the Raven
Delta Corvi. From the Arabic name for the entire constellation, Al Ghurāb, the Crow. Applied specifically to this star in Western astronomy. Allen notes the constellation was anciently associated with the raven sacred to Apollo, sent to fetch water but delayed by waiting for a fig to ripen.
Known As
Algorab in Astrology
Algorab, the Crow star in Corvus, bestows sharp perception, strategic cunning, and the ability to see through surfaces to hidden motives. Its Mars-Saturn nature combines assertive scrutiny with patient, calculated action. You possess an investigative intelligence that excels at uncovering deception and navigating complex social dynamics. The challenge of Algorab is ethical, the same perceptive gifts that expose manipulation can themselves become tools of manipulation if not guided by integrity.
Mythology & History
Algorab takes its name from the Arabic al-Ghurab, meaning 'the crow,' describing its position in the constellation Corvus. In Greek mythology, the crow was originally a beautiful white bird sacred to Apollo who sent it to fetch water in a cup (the nearby constellation Crater). The crow dallied, waiting for figs to ripen on a tree, then brought back a water snake (Hydra) and lied, claiming the serpent had blocked the spring. Apollo saw through the deception, cursed the crow with black feathers, and placed all three in the sky as a warning against dishonesty.
As a Behenian star, Algorab was associated with burdock and black onyx, and its talismans were paradoxically used to drive away evil spirits and malicious intent from others. Ptolemy assigned it the nature of Mars and Saturn, a harsh combination that traditional astrologers associated with destructive tendencies, deception, and the consequences of dishonesty. Medieval stellar magicians treated Algorab with considerable caution, recognizing its power to expose lies and punish deceit but warning that working with it required absolute honesty in one's own dealings.
Corvus Context
Algorab sits in Corvus the Crow, a small quadrilateral of stars perched on the back of Hydra, the great water serpent that stretches across the southern sky. The crow constellation is perpetually positioned next to the Cup (Crater) but can never reach the water within it, a celestial enactment of its punishment: eternal thirst as the price of its lie to Apollo. The myth connects Corvus to themes of cunning, punishment for deception, and the karmic consequences of misusing intelligence for selfish ends.
Learn more about Corvus and its stars.
Natal Conjunctions
Find your conjunctions →Algorab Conjunct Sun
Algorab conjunct the Sun produces a personality of keen perception and strategic intelligence. You see through pretense effortlessly and possess an uncanny ability to identify hidden agendas. Identity is shaped by the capacity for seeing what others miss, and you must choose between using this gift for protection or exploitation.
Algorab Conjunct Moon
Algorab conjunct the Moon creates an emotional nature attuned to undercurrents and unspoken dynamics. You sense manipulation and dishonesty instinctively and process emotional information through a lens of strategic assessment. Trust is earned slowly, and the inner life carries a watchful, evaluative quality.
Algorab Conjunct Mercury
Algorab conjunct Mercury sharpens the intellect to razor precision in matters of analysis and investigation. You excel at research, debate, and the detection of logical fallacies. Communication style is incisive and occasionally caustic, with a talent for exposing weakness in opposing arguments.
Algorab Conjunct Venus
Algorab conjunct Venus brings strategic awareness to relationships and aesthetics. You evaluate potential partners with calculated precision and possess a refined appreciation for cleverness and sophistication. Artistic expression favors the sharp, the satirical, and the psychologically penetrating.
Algorab Conjunct Mars
Algorab conjunct Mars amplifies strategic aggression and the capacity for calculated conflict. You excel in competitive environments requiring tactical intelligence and possess the patience to wait for the optimal moment to strike. Military, legal, or investigative pursuits are strongly favored.
Algorab Conjunct Jupiter
Algorab conjunct Jupiter produces a philosopher who has stared into the machinery of deception and emerged with dangerous wisdom. Your faith expands not through innocence but through understanding exactly how belief systems are constructed, exploited, and defended with lies. You see through ideologies that comfort others, and your broadest insights concern the ways people deceive themselves on a grand scale, making you a formidable teacher, ethicist, or critic of institutional corruption.
Algorab Conjunct Saturn
Algorab conjunct Saturn concentrates perceptive intelligence into disciplined, long-term strategy. You build authority through demonstrated analytical superiority and possess the patience to construct elaborate plans that unfold over years. Power is wielded through knowledge rather than force.
Algorab Conjunct Uranus
Algorab conjunct Uranus turns you into a lightning rod for sudden, shocking exposure of hidden truths. You possess an instinct for pulling back curtains at precisely the wrong moment for those who benefit from secrecy, and revelations arrive through you with disruptive, irreversible force. Breakthroughs come not from polite lateral thinking but from a willingness to detonate comfortable assumptions and force confrontations with what has been deliberately concealed.
Algorab Conjunct Neptune
Algorab conjunct Neptune pits the crow's surgical clarity against Neptune's dissolving fog, and neither wins outright. You sense deception at levels others cannot articulate, picking up on lies through atmosphere and intuition rather than evidence, yet you also struggle to trust your own perceptions when the boundaries between strategic insight and paranoid fantasy blur. When you learn to let both modes inform each other, you develop a penetrating psychic intelligence that reads intention through the gaps between what people say and what they radiate.
Algorab Conjunct Pluto
Algorab conjunct Pluto intensifies perceptive power to penetrating, transformative levels. You see into the depths of power structures and psychological dynamics, and possess the capacity to dismantle corruption through sheer force of analytical exposure.
Algorab Conjunct North Node
Algorab conjunct the North Node charts a karmic arc from naive complicity toward the unflinching role of truth-teller. You are growing away from the comfort of going along with deception, of playing dumb, of profiting from what you know to be dishonest. Your soul's direction demands that you use your extraordinary perceptive gifts in service of exposure and accountability, even when the truths you uncover make you unwelcome. The crow's curse becomes your crown when honesty costs you something real.
Algorab Conjunct Ascendant
Algorab on the Ascendant bestows a sharp, observant presence that others experience as either reassuringly perceptive or uncomfortably penetrating. You project an aura of watchful intelligence, and the life path involves visible engagement with analysis, investigation, or strategic assessment.
Algorab Conjunct Midheaven
Algorab on the Midheaven means you are publicly known as someone who sees what others wish to keep hidden. Your reputation is built not on any single profession but on a quality of unnerving perceptiveness that makes you either deeply trusted or actively avoided. The legacy you leave is one of clarity that others found uncomfortable in your lifetime but indispensable in retrospect, the person who named what everyone else pretended not to notice.
Paran Interpretations
Parans describe what happens when Algorab and a planet simultaneously occupy the four angles (rising, culminating, setting, nadir) at a given location.
Algorab in Paran with Sun
Rising
Algorab rising with the Sun marks an individual born with sharp perceptive instincts and early strategic awareness.
Culminating
Algorab culminating with the Sun places analytical brilliance at the peak of public achievement.
Setting
Algorab setting with the Sun indicates perceptive wisdom that sharpens with age, becoming more precise over a lifetime.
At the Nadir
Algorab at the nadir with the Sun conceals extraordinary analytical power at the foundations of the personality.
Algorab in Paran with Moon
Rising
Algorab rising with the Moon awakens watchful emotional instincts and strategic sensitivity from the earliest years.
Culminating
Algorab culminating with the Moon brings emotional perception and psychological acuity to public prominence.
Setting
Algorab setting with the Moon indicates emotional discernment that deepens through decades of observing human nature.
At the Nadir
Algorab at the nadir with the Moon harbors keen emotional intelligence that operates at subconscious levels.
Algorab in Paran with Mercury
Rising
Algorab rising with Mercury bestows exceptional analytical and investigative skills from childhood.
Culminating
Algorab culminating with Mercury elevates sharp analysis and incisive communication to career-defining prominence.
Setting
Algorab setting with Mercury refines analytical precision over time, with the most penetrating insights arriving in maturity.
At the Nadir
Algorab at the nadir with Mercury conceals a mind of surgical precision operating beneath conscious awareness.
Algorab in Paran with Venus
Rising
Algorab rising with Venus initiates early awareness of social dynamics and strategic relationship intelligence.
Culminating
Algorab culminating with Venus achieves recognition through sophisticated, psychologically astute artistic or social achievement.
Setting
Algorab setting with Venus brings deepening relational wisdom and strategic social understanding over a lifetime.
At the Nadir
Algorab at the nadir with Venus conceals refined strategic awareness of beauty and relationship dynamics.
Algorab in Paran with Mars
Rising
Algorab rising with Mars produces a natural strategist equipped for calculated competition from youth.
Culminating
Algorab culminating with Mars places tactical brilliance at the apex of career achievement.
Setting
Algorab setting with Mars channels strategic aggression into sustained, calculated pursuits over a lifetime.
At the Nadir
Algorab at the nadir with Mars conceals formidable tactical reserves that deploy only when strategically optimal.
Algorab in Paran with Jupiter
Rising
Algorab rising with Jupiter expands strategic perception into ambitious early ventures.
Culminating
Algorab culminating with Jupiter achieves widest influence through large-scale analytical and strategic achievement.
Setting
Algorab setting with Jupiter brings expanding strategic vision and philosophical depth in the mature years.
At the Nadir
Algorab at the nadir with Jupiter builds on hidden foundations of vast analytical comprehension.
Algorab in Paran with Saturn
Rising
Algorab rising with Saturn demands early discipline in developing analytical precision and strategic patience.
Culminating
Algorab culminating with Saturn achieves lasting authority through decades of demonstrated perceptive superiority.
Setting
Algorab setting with Saturn builds an enduring legacy of structured analytical wisdom.
At the Nadir
Algorab at the nadir with Saturn establishes deep foundations of disciplined, patient strategic thinking.
Algorab in Paran with Ascendant
Rising
Algorab rising with the Ascendant stamps the personality with visible sharpness and observant intelligence.
Culminating
Algorab culminating with the Ascendant projects analytical precision onto the broadest public stage.
Setting
Algorab setting with the Ascendant draws others who recognize and value your perceptive gifts.
At the Nadir
Algorab at the nadir with the Ascendant grounds identity in deep reserves of strategic awareness.
Algorab in Paran with Midheaven
Rising
Algorab rising with the Midheaven launches a career defined by analytical brilliance and investigative instinct.
Culminating
Algorab culminating with the Midheaven represents the summit of professional achievement through sharp perception.
Setting
Algorab setting with the Midheaven indicates a professional legacy of strategic insight that influences successors.
At the Nadir
Algorab at the nadir with the Midheaven builds career success on hidden foundations of extraordinary analytical depth.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does Algorab mean in astrology?
Algorab in Corvus the Crow carries a Mars-Saturn nature associated with scavenging intelligence, destructiveness that clears the way for renewal, and a talent for finding value in what others discard. It can indicate shrewdness in business or a tendency toward schemes and manipulation when poorly integrated.
What does the name Algorab mean?
The name Algorab comes from Arabic: Al Ghurāb, meaning "The Crow, the Raven." Delta Corvi. The star is known by 3 different cultural names across world traditions.
Lunar Mansions
Algorab serves as the determinant star for this lunar mansion across different traditions.
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