Facies
M22 (Sagittarius Cluster) · Sagittarius
Position (2026)
♑ 8°41' Capricorn
Magnitude
5.10
Planetary Nature
Sun / Mars (robson)
Robson: Sun and Mars. This is the nebula M22 near the Archer's face. Matched to nearest named star in Sagittarius.
Spectral Type
Cluster
Appearance
A dense globular cluster in the face of the Archer, one of the finest in the sky
Name Origin
Language
Latin
Original Form
Faciēs
Meaning
The Face (of the Archer)
The Sagittarius Cluster (M22) near the Archer's face. The name is Latin for 'the face' or 'appearance.' In astrology, Facies was considered one of the most unfortunate positions, associated with blindness and violent death.
Known As
Facies in Astrology
Facies, the nebula at the face of the Archer in Sagittarius, carries Sun-Mars energy that bestows a confrontational, penetrating quality to the personality and a capacity for looking directly into the heart of things without flinching. It grants you exceptional focus and the willingness to engage with realities that others prefer not to see. The gaze is direct and unwavering.
Mythology & History
Facies, the face of the Archer, is actually the great globular cluster M22 in Sagittarius, one of the brightest such objects in the sky. In traditional astrology, Facies has one of the most feared reputations among the fixed stars, associated with violence done to the face or eyes, and more broadly with the impersonal, catastrophic forces of nature or war. Its Sun-Mars nature concentrates fierce, burning energy. The name comes from the Latin for 'face' or 'appearance,' and the star's association with the archer's face gives it the quality of the focused stare of one taking aim.
Sagittarius Context
Facies sits in Sagittarius the Archer, near the center of the Milky Way where the galaxy's dense core creates a backdrop of extraordinary stellar richness. The centaur archer draws his bow toward the heart of the Scorpion, perpetually aimed at the deadly Antares. Facies in the archer's face represents the absolute concentration required to hit a distant target: the narrowing of awareness to a single point of lethal focus. The region around Facies is one of the densest star fields in the sky.
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Natal Conjunctions
Find your conjunctions →Facies Conjunct Sun
Facies conjunct the Sun produces a personality of concentrated, piercing focus and the capacity for confrontation with forces of overwhelming, impersonal intensity. You possess the nebula's quality of focused, almost lethal precision aimed at targets of genuine significance.
Facies Conjunct Moon
Facies conjunct the Moon creates emotional instincts of concentrated, piercingly focused intensity. Your feelings carry a quality of impersonal force that can be either destructive or precisely directed toward outcomes of genuine significance.
Facies Conjunct Mercury
Facies conjunct Mercury gives a mind of concentrated, piercingly focused analytical precision. You think with a quality of lethal intellectual clarity that cuts to the essential point with impersonal, devastating accuracy.
Facies Conjunct Venus
Facies conjunct Venus brings concentrated, piercingly intense beauty to love and creative expression. You create with a quality of focused force that produces beauty of startling, sometimes overwhelming intensity.
Facies Conjunct Mars
Facies conjunct Mars amplifies concentrated, piercingly focused martial force into exceptional targeted destructive or protective capability. You strike with impersonal, precisely aimed force at moments of genuine crisis.
Facies Conjunct Jupiter
Facies conjunct Jupiter expands concentrated focus into broad, philosophically aimed campaigns of piercing significance. You direct impersonal force toward targets of genuinely large-scale consequence.
Facies Conjunct Saturn
Facies conjunct Saturn disciplines concentrated, piercing force into sustained, structurally aimed campaigns of precisely targeted professional impact. You learn that the most devastating precision requires the most patient preparation.
Facies Conjunct Uranus
Facies conjunct Uranus electrifies concentrated focus with sudden, unexpectedly piercing, impersonal force directed at surprising targets.
Facies Conjunct Neptune
Facies conjunct Neptune infuses concentrated focus with intuitive targeting of impersonal, piercing force toward spiritually significant objectives.
Facies Conjunct Pluto
Facies conjunct Pluto transforms concentrated, piercing focus into encounters with the most fundamental, impersonal forces of destruction and regeneration at their most intense.
Facies Conjunct North Node
Facies conjunct the North Node orients destiny toward developing the concentrated, piercingly focused capacity for confrontation with impersonal forces of overwhelming intensity.
Facies Conjunct Ascendant
Facies on the Ascendant gives a concentrated, piercingly focused, intensely directed presence. Others sense the quality of impersonal, precisely aimed force in your bearing.
Facies Conjunct Midheaven
Facies on the Midheaven builds a career through concentrated, piercingly focused professional precision. Recognition comes for the impersonal, precisely targeted quality of your most significant professional interventions.
Paran Interpretations
Parans describe what happens when Facies and a planet simultaneously occupy the four angles (rising, culminating, setting, nadir) at a given location.
Facies in Paran with Sun
Rising
Facies rising with the Sun marks someone who enters life with concentrated, piercingly focused intensity and impersonal directional force.
Culminating
Facies culminating with the Sun places precisely targeted, concentrated force at the peak of public career achievement.
Setting
Facies setting with the Sun suggests a legacy of piercingly focused, impersonally intense contributions of genuine significance.
At the Nadir
Facies at the nadir with the Sun reveals deeply private reserves of concentrated, piercingly focused force that power all outward intensity.
Facies in Paran with Moon
Rising
Facies rising with the Moon instills early emotional concentrated intensity and the instinct for piercingly focused feeling.
Culminating
Facies culminating with the Moon brings concentrated, piercingly focused emotional intensity to its most publicly visible form.
Setting
Facies setting with the Moon indicates emotional concentrated focus that grows more precisely piercing with experience.
At the Nadir
Facies at the nadir with the Moon conceals extraordinary emotional concentrated intensity beneath piercingly focused surfaces.
Facies in Paran with Mercury
Rising
Facies rising with Mercury bestows early concentrated analytical precision and talent for piercingly focused communication.
Culminating
Facies culminating with Mercury elevates concentrated, piercingly precise thinking to the highest professional distinction.
Setting
Facies setting with Mercury suggests a mind that grows more concentratedly piercing with decades.
At the Nadir
Facies at the nadir with Mercury reveals hidden reserves of concentrated intellectual precision.
Facies in Paran with Venus
Rising
Facies rising with Venus shapes early love with concentrated intensity and piercingly focused, overwhelming beauty.
Culminating
Facies culminating with Venus brings recognition for beauty of startling, concentrated, piercingly intense quality.
Setting
Facies setting with Venus suggests creative expression that grows more concentratedly piercing with maturity.
At the Nadir
Facies at the nadir with Venus conceals concentrated creative intensity of piercingly focused, impersonal force.
Facies in Paran with Mars
Rising
Facies rising with Mars channels early energy into concentrated, piercingly precise, impersonally targeted martial force.
Culminating
Facies culminating with Mars places concentrated, piercingly targeted fighting force at the absolute peak of achievement.
Setting
Facies setting with Mars indicates concentrated martial precision that grows more piercingly effective with experience.
At the Nadir
Facies at the nadir with Mars conceals extraordinary reserves of concentrated, piercingly aimed fighting force.
Facies in Paran with Jupiter
Rising
Facies rising with Jupiter expands early concentrated focus into broad, piercingly aimed philosophical campaigns.
Culminating
Facies culminating with Jupiter brings peak achievement through expansive, concentratedly piercing leadership.
Setting
Facies setting with Jupiter indicates growing scope for concentrated, piercing action in the later years.
At the Nadir
Facies at the nadir with Jupiter reveals vast inner concentrated philosophical precision and piercing aim.
Facies in Paran with Saturn
Rising
Facies rising with Saturn demands early discipline in developing the sustained, precisely targeted concentrated force of maturity.
Culminating
Facies culminating with Saturn achieves lasting authority through decades of disciplined, piercingly concentrated professional precision.
Setting
Facies setting with Saturn builds an enduring reputation for precisely targeted, concentrated contributions.
At the Nadir
Facies at the nadir with Saturn establishes inner reserves of disciplined concentrated force and piercing patience.
Facies in Paran with Ascendant
Rising
Facies rising with the Ascendant stamps the personality with concentrated, piercingly focused, impersonal intensity.
Culminating
Facies culminating with the Ascendant projects concentrated, precisely aimed force onto the broadest stage.
Setting
Facies setting with the Ascendant draws others who sense your concentrated, piercingly intense capacity for targeted action.
At the Nadir
Facies at the nadir with the Ascendant grounds identity in deeply private concentrated force and piercing focus.
Facies in Paran with Midheaven
Rising
Facies rising with the Midheaven launches a career defined by concentrated, piercingly focused professional precision.
Culminating
Facies culminating with the Midheaven represents peak career achievement through precisely targeted, concentrated professional force.
Setting
Facies setting with the Midheaven indicates a career legacy of piercingly precise contributions of concentrated significance.
At the Nadir
Facies at the nadir with the Midheaven builds career success on hidden foundations of concentrated, piercingly disciplined force.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does the name Facies mean?
The name Facies comes from Latin: Faciēs, meaning "The Face (of the Archer)." The Sagittarius Cluster (M22) near the Archer's face. The star is known by 1 different cultural name across world traditions.
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