Capella
BehenianAlpha Aurigae · Auriga
Position (2026)
♊ 22°14' Gemini
Magnitude
0.08
Planetary Nature
Mars / Mercury (robson)
Spectral Type
M1: comp
Capella in Astrology
Capella, the She-Goat on the shoulder of Auriga the Charioteer, bestows curiosity, unconventional intelligence, and an insatiable love of learning. Its Mars-Mercury nature combines intellectual sharpness with the drive to pursue knowledge actively rather than passively. Those touched by Capella are perpetual students and teachers, drawn to multiple fields of inquiry and resistant to intellectual conformity. Capella grants versatility, wit, and a restless brilliance that thrives on novelty and discovery.
Natal Conjunctions
Capella Conjunct Sun
Capella conjunct the Sun creates a personality of sparkling intellectual energy and versatile interests. The individual is drawn to multiple fields simultaneously and possesses an unusual ability to synthesize diverse areas of knowledge. Identity is bound up with learning, and the native feels most alive when pursuing new understanding.
Capella Conjunct Moon
Capella conjunct the Moon produces an emotional nature stimulated by discovery and mental engagement. The native needs intellectual novelty to feel emotionally satisfied and processes feelings through analysis and communication. The inner life is animated by curiosity, and emotional security comes through understanding rather than routine.
Capella Conjunct Mercury
Capella conjunct Mercury amplifies intellectual gifts to their highest expression. The mind is quick, versatile, and genuinely brilliant, with an ability to grasp complex subjects rapidly and communicate them engagingly. The native excels in fields requiring both analytical precision and creative thinking.
Capella Conjunct Venus
Capella conjunct Venus attracts through intellectual charm and wit. Relationships are stimulated by shared learning and mental companionship, and the native is drawn to partners who expand their intellectual horizons. Aesthetic sensibility gravitates toward the clever, the innovative, and the intellectually playful.
Capella Conjunct Mars
Capella conjunct Mars directs assertive energy into intellectual pursuits and the active acquisition of knowledge. The native debates fiercely, researches tirelessly, and approaches learning as a competitive sport. Physical energy is best channeled through activities that engage both body and mind.
Capella Conjunct Jupiter
Capella conjunct Jupiter expands intellectual curiosity into broad philosophical territory. The native is drawn to grand unifying theories and possesses an exceptional capacity for seeing connections between disparate fields. Teaching and publishing bring both fulfillment and recognition.
Capella Conjunct Saturn
Capella conjunct Saturn disciplines the restless intellect into sustained, deep scholarship. The native learns that breadth without depth produces cleverness rather than wisdom, and over time builds genuine mastery through patient, focused study. Academic and intellectual authority grows with age.
Capella Conjunct Uranus
Capella conjunct Uranus electrifies intellectual curiosity with radical originality. The native makes unexpected connections between fields and often pioneers interdisciplinary approaches that redefine entire subjects. Mental breakthroughs arrive as sudden flashes of comprehensive understanding.
Capella Conjunct Neptune
Capella conjunct Neptune infuses intellectual pursuits with imaginative and mystical dimensions. The native is drawn to subjects that bridge science and spirit, and possesses an intuitive understanding of abstract or metaphysical concepts that eludes purely rational minds.
Capella Conjunct Pluto
Capella conjunct Pluto intensifies intellectual curiosity into obsessive, penetrating research. The native is drawn to knowledge that transforms understanding at fundamental levels and often investigates subjects that others find too dark, complex, or threatening to explore.
Capella Conjunct North Node
Capella conjunct the North Node marks a destiny oriented toward lifelong learning, teaching, and the joyful pursuit of diverse knowledge. The soul grows through intellectual breadth and the willingness to remain a perpetual student.
Capella Conjunct Ascendant
Capella on the Ascendant bestows a bright, intellectually engaging personality that draws others through wit and curiosity. The native projects an aura of lively intelligence, and the life path involves visible engagement with learning, teaching, or innovative thinking.
Capella Conjunct Midheaven
Capella on the Midheaven marks a career built on intellectual versatility and the capacity to bridge multiple fields. Professional success comes through innovation, teaching, or communication, and the native is recognized for the breadth and originality of their thinking.
Paran Interpretations
Parans describe what happens when Capella and a planet simultaneously occupy the four angles (rising, culminating, setting, nadir) at a given location.
Capella in Paran with Sun
Rising
Capella rising with the Sun marks an individual born with insatiable curiosity and early intellectual precocity.
Culminating
Capella culminating with the Sun places intellectual achievement at the peak of public recognition.
Setting
Capella setting with the Sun indicates wisdom gathered from a lifetime of diverse learning, crystallizing in maturity.
At the Nadir
Capella at the nadir with the Sun conceals a restless, brilliant mind that drives all outward accomplishment.
Capella in Paran with Moon
Rising
Capella rising with the Moon awakens emotional engagement with learning and discovery from the earliest years.
Culminating
Capella culminating with the Moon brings intellectual and emotional versatility to their highest public expression.
Setting
Capella setting with the Moon indicates deepening emotional wisdom through lifelong curiosity and mental engagement.
At the Nadir
Capella at the nadir with the Moon harbors an emotionally charged intellect that processes experience through perpetual inquiry.
Capella in Paran with Mercury
Rising
Capella rising with Mercury bestows exceptional mental agility and communicative brilliance from childhood.
Culminating
Capella culminating with Mercury elevates intellectual and communicative gifts to career-defining prominence.
Setting
Capella setting with Mercury deepens analytical power over time, with the most original insights arriving in later years.
At the Nadir
Capella at the nadir with Mercury conceals a mind of extraordinary versatility operating beneath conscious awareness.
Capella in Paran with Venus
Rising
Capella rising with Venus initiates early appreciation for the beauty of ideas and intellectual companionship.
Culminating
Capella culminating with Venus achieves recognition through aesthetically pleasing innovation or intellectually stimulating art.
Setting
Capella setting with Venus brings enduring relationships built on shared intellectual curiosity and mutual discovery.
At the Nadir
Capella at the nadir with Venus conceals a deep love of learning that operates as the hidden driver of aesthetic taste.
Capella in Paran with Mars
Rising
Capella rising with Mars produces an actively curious individual who pursues knowledge with competitive energy from youth.
Culminating
Capella culminating with Mars achieves peak recognition through bold intellectual ventures and innovative action.
Setting
Capella setting with Mars channels assertive energy into sustained intellectual pursuits over a lifetime.
At the Nadir
Capella at the nadir with Mars conceals fierce intellectual drive that powers all outward achievement.
Capella in Paran with Jupiter
Rising
Capella rising with Jupiter expands intellectual horizons from birth, granting early philosophical inclination.
Culminating
Capella culminating with Jupiter achieves widest influence through teaching, publishing, or philosophical innovation.
Setting
Capella setting with Jupiter brings expanding intellectual generosity and philosophical depth in the mature years.
At the Nadir
Capella at the nadir with Jupiter builds on hidden foundations of vast intellectual curiosity and philosophical breadth.
Capella in Paran with Saturn
Rising
Capella rising with Saturn demands early intellectual discipline, channeling curiosity into focused study.
Culminating
Capella culminating with Saturn achieves lasting intellectual authority through decades of disciplined scholarship.
Setting
Capella setting with Saturn builds an enduring legacy of deep learning and scholarly contribution.
At the Nadir
Capella at the nadir with Saturn establishes rigorous foundations of intellectual discipline beneath all creative work.
Capella in Paran with Ascendant
Rising
Capella rising with the Ascendant imprints the personality with visible intellectual sparkle and engaging curiosity.
Culminating
Capella culminating with the Ascendant projects mental agility and innovative thinking onto the broadest stage.
Setting
Capella setting with the Ascendant draws others who recognize and are stimulated by the native's intellectual vitality.
At the Nadir
Capella at the nadir with the Ascendant grounds identity in deep reservoirs of intellectual energy and curiosity.
Capella in Paran with Midheaven
Rising
Capella rising with the Midheaven launches a career trajectory defined by intellectual innovation and versatile achievement.
Culminating
Capella culminating with the Midheaven represents the summit of professional recognition for intellectual contribution.
Setting
Capella setting with the Midheaven indicates a professional legacy of innovative thinking that inspires future scholars.
At the Nadir
Capella at the nadir with the Midheaven builds career success on hidden foundations of restless intellectual curiosity.
Behenian Correspondences
Gemstone
Sapphire
Plant
Thyme, horehound
Mythology & History
Capella, the Little She-Goat, takes its name from the Latin capra and represents the goat Amalthea who nursed the infant Zeus in a cave on Mount Ida when his mother Rhea hid him from the child-devouring Cronus. In gratitude, Zeus placed the goat among the stars and gave one of her horns to his nurses, creating the cornucopia or horn of plenty. The Babylonians knew this star as the charioteer's star, and in Hindu astronomy it was Brahma Hridaya, the Heart of Brahma. Ancient mariners considered it one of the most important navigation stars due to its brilliance and high northern position.
As a Behenian star, Capella was associated with sapphire and horehound, and its talismans were crafted to bring favor with rulers and public honor. Ptolemy assigned it the nature of Mars and Mercury, an energetic combination that produces sharp intelligence and busy enterprise. Medieval astrologers considered Capella highly fortunate, granting success through curiosity, communication, and mental agility. Its association with the cornucopia extended its reputation to abundance and the nourishment of others through one's gifts. Arabic astrologers knew it as a star of inquisitive, versatile talent.
Auriga Context
Capella is the brightest star in Auriga the Charioteer, a constellation the Greeks identified with Erichthonius, a legendary king of Athens who invented the four-horse chariot. Some traditions identify the charioteer with Myrtilus, the treacherous charioteer of King Oenomaus, or with Hephaestus, the lame smith god who built himself a chariot to compensate for his disability. Capella sits on the charioteer's left shoulder, and the small triangle of stars nearby represents the kids (baby goats) he carries. The constellation occupies a prominent position in the northern winter sky.
Notable Charts
Albert Einstein
Mars conjunct Capella
Insatiable curiosity and intellectual enterprise that revolutionized understanding of the physical universe
Walt Disney
Jupiter conjunct Capella
Capella's cornucopia theme manifest as boundless creative abundance and public delight
Frequently Asked Questions
What does Capella mean in astrology?
Capella is one of the most fortunate fixed stars, carrying the nature of Mars and Mercury. It bestows a love of learning, curiosity, versatility, and the ability to achieve through intelligence rather than force. The name means 'little she-goat' and is associated with the goat Amalthea who nursed the infant Zeus.
What zodiac degree is Capella at in 2026?
Capella is at approximately 22 degrees 15 minutes of Gemini in 2026. Despite its high northern latitude of about 23 degrees, its ecliptic longitude places it firmly in the tropical sign of Gemini.
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