Lesath
Upsilon Scorpii · Scorpius
Position (2026)
♐ 24°23' Sagittarius
Magnitude
2.70
Planetary Nature
Mercury / Mars (robson)
Spectral Type
B2IV
Appearance
A blue-white star near the sting of the Scorpion, forming a close visual pair with Shaula
Name Origin
Language
Arabic
Original Form
Al Las'ah
Meaning
The Sting (of the Scorpion's tail)
Upsilon Scorpii. From the Arabic for 'the sting' or 'the bite,' marking the scorpion's stinger along with Lambda Scorpii (Shaula). Sometimes written as Lesuth or Leshath.
Known As
Lesath in Astrology
Lesath, in the stinger of the Scorpion, carries Mercury-Mars energy that bestows a sharp, stinging quality to the intellect and the capacity for delivering precise, sometimes painful verbal or analytical strikes. It grants you an incisive wit and the ability to identify and exploit critical weaknesses in arguments or positions.
Mythology & History
Lesath takes its name from the Arabic al-Las'ah, meaning 'the sting,' though it does not mark the actual tip of the scorpion's tail but sits very near it alongside Shaula. The two stars together form the 'cat's eyes' at the stinger end of Scorpius and were collectively known in Arabic as al-Shaulah. Lesath's Mercury-Mars nature gives the sting an intellectual, communicative edge: the sting of a cutting remark, the poisonous word, the argument that penetrates all defenses. It transforms the scorpion's physical venom into verbal and mental weaponry.
Scorpius Context
Lesath sits at the tail of Scorpius near the stinger, in the most lethal region of the entire constellation. While Antares at the heart represents the scorpion's concentrated power and Acrab at the head represents its predatory awareness, the tail stars represent the delivery system for the scorpion's venom. Lesath and Shaula together form the mechanism of the strike: quick, precise, and carrying consequences far beyond the small size of the wound.
Learn more about Scorpius and its stars.
Natal Conjunctions
Find your conjunctions →Lesath Conjunct Sun
Lesath conjunct the Sun produces a personality of stinging verbal precision and the capacity for sharp, concentrated intellectual impact. You possess the scorpion stinger's quality of delivering pointed, penetrating communication that cuts directly to the essential point.
Lesath Conjunct Moon
Lesath conjunct the Moon creates emotional instincts of sharp, stinging precision. Your feelings arrive with pointed clarity that can wound or illuminate depending on how consciously directed, and emotional expression carries concentrated, penetrating force.
Lesath Conjunct Mercury
Lesath conjunct Mercury gives a mind of exceptional verbal sharpness and the capacity for stinging, precisely targeted communication. You cut through confusion with words that carry the concentrated impact of a precisely aimed strike.
Lesath Conjunct Venus
Lesath conjunct Venus brings sharp, penetrating quality to love and creative expression. You perceive and articulate beauty with an edge of cutting honesty, and creative work carries concentrated, sometimes uncomfortable precision.
Lesath Conjunct Mars
Lesath conjunct Mars amplifies stinging verbal precision into aggressive, sharply targeted communicative strikes. You fight with words of concentrated, venomous accuracy and possess the courage to say what cuts deepest when truth demands it.
Lesath Conjunct Jupiter
Lesath conjunct Jupiter expands verbal precision into broad, philosophically sharp criticism and commentary. You articulate large truths with the concentrated, stinging clarity that makes them impossible to dismiss.
Lesath Conjunct Saturn
Lesath conjunct Saturn disciplines stinging verbal precision into sustained, structurally precise criticism. You learn that the most effective sting is the one delivered at precisely the right moment with exactly the right words.
Lesath Conjunct Uranus
Lesath conjunct Uranus electrifies verbal precision with sudden, shocking communicative strikes. You deliver stinging insights that arrive without warning and land with unexpected accuracy.
Lesath Conjunct Neptune
Lesath conjunct Neptune adds intuitive perception to verbal stinging precision. You sense exactly where words will have maximum impact and deliver them with an accuracy that seems almost supernaturally targeted.
Lesath Conjunct Pluto
Lesath conjunct Pluto transforms verbal precision into a profoundly penetrating, fundamentally transformative communicative force. Your words reach depths that permanently alter how people understand what you have addressed.
Lesath Conjunct North Node
Lesath conjunct the North Node orients destiny toward developing the concentrated verbal precision and stinging communicative power to cut through deception and deliver truth where it is most needed.
Lesath Conjunct Ascendant
Lesath on the Ascendant gives a sharp, verbally precise presence that others find both stimulating and slightly dangerous. You project the quality of someone whose words carry concentrated, precisely targeted impact.
Lesath Conjunct Midheaven
Lesath on the Midheaven builds a career through verbal precision and the capacity for sharp, concentrated professional communication. Recognition comes for the stinging accuracy of your articulation.
Paran Interpretations
Parans describe what happens when Lesath and a planet simultaneously occupy the four angles (rising, culminating, setting, nadir) at a given location.
Lesath in Paran with Sun
Rising
Lesath rising with the Sun marks someone who enters life with natural verbal sharpness and stinging communicative precision.
Culminating
Lesath culminating with the Sun places concentrated verbal impact at the peak of public career achievement.
Setting
Lesath setting with the Sun suggests a legacy of sharp, precisely targeted communication valued for its accuracy.
At the Nadir
Lesath at the nadir with the Sun reveals deeply private verbal precision that silently sharpens all outward communication.
Lesath in Paran with Moon
Rising
Lesath rising with the Moon instills early emotional sharpness and the instinct for precisely pointed feeling.
Culminating
Lesath culminating with the Moon brings stinging emotional precision to its most publicly effective expression.
Setting
Lesath setting with the Moon indicates emotional verbal acuity that grows more precisely effective with experience.
At the Nadir
Lesath at the nadir with the Moon conceals sharp emotional precision that operates beneath composed surfaces.
Lesath in Paran with Mercury
Rising
Lesath rising with Mercury bestows exceptional early verbal sharpness and stinging communicative talent.
Culminating
Lesath culminating with Mercury elevates precisely targeted, stinging verbal intelligence to professional distinction.
Setting
Lesath setting with Mercury suggests communication that grows more precisely stinging and accurately targeted with decades.
At the Nadir
Lesath at the nadir with Mercury reveals hidden reserves of concentrated verbal precision beneath measured speech.
Lesath in Paran with Venus
Rising
Lesath rising with Venus shapes early love with sharp, penetrating honesty and precisely beautiful expression.
Culminating
Lesath culminating with Venus brings recognition for art expressed with concentrated, precisely cutting beauty.
Setting
Lesath setting with Venus suggests creative expression that grows more precisely beautiful and honestly stinging with maturity.
At the Nadir
Lesath at the nadir with Venus conceals a private capacity for precisely honest beauty beneath a composed aesthetic.
Lesath in Paran with Mars
Rising
Lesath rising with Mars channels early energy into sharply targeted, stinging competitive strikes.
Culminating
Lesath culminating with Mars places venomously precise fighting communication at the apex of competitive achievement.
Setting
Lesath setting with Mars indicates stinging fighting precision that grows more devastatingly accurate with experience.
At the Nadir
Lesath at the nadir with Mars conceals reserves of sharply targeted stinging energy deployed with concentrated accuracy.
Lesath in Paran with Jupiter
Rising
Lesath rising with Jupiter expands early verbal precision into broad, philosophically sharp stinging commentary.
Culminating
Lesath culminating with Jupiter brings peak achievement through expansive, precisely targeted communication.
Setting
Lesath setting with Jupiter indicates growing scope for precisely stinging commentary in the later years.
At the Nadir
Lesath at the nadir with Jupiter reveals vast inner verbal precision and philosophical sharpness that fuel all communication.
Lesath in Paran with Saturn
Rising
Lesath rising with Saturn demands early discipline in directing stinging precision toward appropriate targets at appropriate times.
Culminating
Lesath culminating with Saturn achieves lasting authority through decades of disciplined, precisely timed verbal precision.
Setting
Lesath setting with Saturn builds an enduring reputation for sharp, disciplined verbal accuracy refined across a lifetime.
At the Nadir
Lesath at the nadir with Saturn establishes inner reserves of disciplined verbal precision and stinging patience.
Lesath in Paran with Ascendant
Rising
Lesath rising with the Ascendant stamps the personality with sharp, stinging verbal presence and concentrated communicative precision.
Culminating
Lesath culminating with the Ascendant projects precisely targeted verbal impact onto the broadest possible stage.
Setting
Lesath setting with the Ascendant draws others who respect your stinging precision and trust your accurately targeted words.
At the Nadir
Lesath at the nadir with the Ascendant grounds identity in deeply private verbal sharpness and concentrated precision.
Lesath in Paran with Midheaven
Rising
Lesath rising with the Midheaven launches a career defined by concentrated verbal precision from the earliest steps.
Culminating
Lesath culminating with the Midheaven represents peak career achievement through stinging, precisely targeted professional communication.
Setting
Lesath setting with the Midheaven indicates a career legacy of sharp verbal contributions valued for their concentrated accuracy.
At the Nadir
Lesath at the nadir with the Midheaven builds career success on hidden foundations of disciplined verbal precision.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does the name Lesath mean?
The name Lesath comes from Arabic: Al Las'ah, meaning "The Sting (of the Scorpion's tail)." Upsilon Scorpii. The star is known by 2 different cultural names across world traditions.
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