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Megrez

Delta Ursae Majoris · Ursa Major

Position (2026)

1°26' Virgo

Magnitude

3.32

Planetary Nature

Mars (robson)

Robson: Mars. Delta Ursae Majoris.

Spectral Type

A3Vvar

Appearance

A faintly variable white star at the junction of the Big Dipper's bowl and handle, the dimmest of its seven stars

Name Origin

Language

Arabic

Original Form

Al Maghriz

Meaning

The Root of the Tail

Delta Ursae Majoris. From the Arabic Al Maghriz, the root or base of the Bear's tail, at the junction where the tail (handle) meets the body (bowl) of the Dipper. The faintest of the seven principal stars of Ursa Major.

Known As

arabic: Al Maghriz (Root of the Tail)hindu: Atri (one of the Seven Rishis)chinese: Tiān Quán (Celestial Balance)

Megrez in Astrology

Megrez, at the junction of the Great Bear's body and tail, carries Mars energy that bestows practical capability and organizational instinct at critical junctures. It grants you a talent for connecting different elements into functional wholes and for occupying positions where coordination and decisiveness are essential.

Mythology & History

Megrez takes its name from the Arabic al-Maghriz, meaning 'the base of the tail,' describing its position at the junction of the Big Dipper's bowl and handle, where the bear's body meets its tail. It is the faintest of the seven Dipper stars, and its relative dimness has given it an astrological reputation as a subtle, easily overlooked influence. Despite its low magnitude, Megrez occupies one of the most structurally important positions in the asterism: the pivot point between the container (bowl) and the direction indicator (handle).

Ursa Major Context

Megrez sits at the junction between the bowl and handle of the Big Dipper in Ursa Major. This is the hinge point of the entire asterism, where the static container connects to the dynamic pointer. In the Arabian funerary tradition, this is where the bier meets the procession of mourners. In the bear mythology, it is where the body joins the tail. Megrez's Mars nature gives this structural junction an assertive, connecting quality despite its visual faintness.

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Natal Conjunctions

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Megrez Conjunct Sun

Megrez conjunct the Sun produces a personality of understated structural importance and the capacity for serving as a junction point that connects larger forces. You possess the quality of the pivot that is overlooked but without which the larger structure fails.

Megrez Conjunct Moon

Megrez conjunct the Moon creates emotional instincts of quiet, structurally pivotal sensitivity. Your feelings serve as hidden connection points that hold larger emotional systems together without drawing attention to themselves.

Megrez Conjunct Mercury

Megrez conjunct Mercury gives a mind of pivotally connecting intelligence. You think in terms of how things connect and serve as the intellectual junction point through which larger ideas flow and cohere.

Megrez Conjunct Venus

Megrez conjunct Venus brings structurally pivotal beauty and understated, connecting charm to love and creative expression. You create beauty that functions as the hidden junction holding larger aesthetic systems together.

Megrez Conjunct Mars

Megrez conjunct Mars channels assertive energy into structurally pivotal, organizationally connecting action. You fight by holding the center together rather than charging at the front, and your contribution is felt most when you are absent.

Megrez Conjunct Jupiter

Megrez conjunct Jupiter expands pivotal connecting intelligence into broad, organizationally central leadership. You serve as the junction through which large-scale philosophical and institutional forces flow and cohere.

Megrez Conjunct Saturn

Megrez conjunct Saturn deepens structural pivotal importance into a lifetime of sustainedly central, connecting professional service. Your authority comes from the demonstrated indispensability of your pivotal, junction-holding function.

Megrez Conjunct Uranus

Megrez conjunct Uranus brings unexpected pivotal connections and surprising structural innovations at junction points. You discover that the most important connections are the ones no one had identified.

Megrez Conjunct Neptune

Megrez conjunct Neptune infuses pivotal connecting function with intuitive awareness of where structural junctions need reinforcement. You sense hidden structural weaknesses before they become visible failures.

Megrez Conjunct Pluto

Megrez conjunct Pluto transforms pivotal connecting function into encounters with the most fundamental structural junctions. Your connecting work operates at depths where the basic framework of systems is determined.

Megrez Conjunct North Node

Megrez conjunct the North Node orients destiny toward developing the understated, pivotally important connecting function that holds larger systems together.

Megrez Conjunct Ascendant

Megrez on the Ascendant gives a quietly pivotal, structurally connecting presence. Others may not immediately recognize your importance, but they feel the absence of your organizing, junction-holding function.

Megrez Conjunct Midheaven

Megrez on the Midheaven builds a career through understated, structurally pivotal professional connection. Recognition comes, sometimes belatedly, for the indispensable quality of your junction-holding professional function.

Paran Interpretations

Parans describe what happens when Megrez and a planet simultaneously occupy the four angles (rising, culminating, setting, nadir) at a given location.

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Megrez in Paran with Sun

Rising

Megrez rising with the Sun marks someone who enters life with natural pivotal, connecting instincts and understated structural importance.

Culminating

Megrez culminating with the Sun places understated, pivotally important connecting work at the peak of public achievement.

Setting

Megrez setting with the Sun suggests a legacy of quiet structural importance and pivotal connection honored in retrospect.

At the Nadir

Megrez at the nadir with the Sun reveals deeply private pivotal connecting function that silently holds all outward structures together.

Megrez in Paran with Moon

Rising

Megrez rising with the Moon instills early emotional pivotal sensitivity and the instinct for holding emotional systems together.

Culminating

Megrez culminating with the Moon brings quietly pivotal emotional connecting to its most structurally effective form.

Setting

Megrez setting with the Moon indicates emotional pivotal function that grows more structurally important with experience.

At the Nadir

Megrez at the nadir with the Moon conceals deep emotional pivotal importance beneath composed, connecting surfaces.

Megrez in Paran with Mercury

Rising

Megrez rising with Mercury bestows early connecting intelligence and a talent for serving as the junction between ideas.

Culminating

Megrez culminating with Mercury elevates pivotally connecting, structurally important communication to professional distinction.

Setting

Megrez setting with Mercury suggests thinking that grows more pivotally connecting and structurally central with decades.

At the Nadir

Megrez at the nadir with Mercury reveals hidden pivotal intellectual importance beneath understated communication.

Megrez in Paran with Venus

Rising

Megrez rising with Venus shapes early love with understated structural beauty and the connecting charm of a hidden junction.

Culminating

Megrez culminating with Venus brings recognition for beauty that functions as a hidden structural connection.

Setting

Megrez setting with Venus suggests creative expression that grows more pivotally important and structurally connecting with time.

At the Nadir

Megrez at the nadir with Venus conceals pivotal aesthetic importance and hidden creative connecting function.

Megrez in Paran with Mars

Rising

Megrez rising with Mars channels early energy into structurally pivotal, quietly connecting competitive action.

Culminating

Megrez culminating with Mars places pivotally important connecting effort at the apex of achievement.

Setting

Megrez setting with Mars indicates pivotal fighting importance that grows more structurally central with experience.

At the Nadir

Megrez at the nadir with Mars conceals reserves of pivotally connecting energy deployed at structurally critical moments.

Megrez in Paran with Jupiter

Rising

Megrez rising with Jupiter expands early pivotal connecting function into broad, structurally central organizational leadership.

Culminating

Megrez culminating with Jupiter brings peak achievement through expansive, pivotally important connecting leadership.

Setting

Megrez setting with Jupiter indicates growing scope for pivotal connecting work in the later years.

At the Nadir

Megrez at the nadir with Jupiter reveals vast inner connecting vision and pivotal organizational importance.

Megrez in Paran with Saturn

Rising

Megrez rising with Saturn demands early discipline in developing the sustained, structurally pivotal connecting function of maturity.

Culminating

Megrez culminating with Saturn achieves lasting authority through decades of quietly pivotal, connecting professional work.

Setting

Megrez setting with Saturn builds an enduring legacy of structural connection and pivotal importance across a lifetime.

At the Nadir

Megrez at the nadir with Saturn establishes the deepest inner reserves of pivotally connecting discipline and structural patience.

Megrez in Paran with Ascendant

Rising

Megrez rising with the Ascendant stamps the personality with quietly pivotal, structurally connecting presence.

Culminating

Megrez culminating with the Ascendant projects understated pivotal importance onto the broadest possible stage.

Setting

Megrez setting with the Ascendant draws others who gradually recognize your quietly pivotal, connecting function.

At the Nadir

Megrez at the nadir with the Ascendant grounds identity in deeply private pivotal importance and connecting function.

Megrez in Paran with Midheaven

Rising

Megrez rising with the Midheaven launches a career built on quietly pivotal, structurally connecting professional work.

Culminating

Megrez culminating with the Midheaven represents peak career achievement through understated, pivotally important connecting leadership.

Setting

Megrez setting with the Midheaven indicates a career legacy of pivotal structural contributions recognized in retrospect.

At the Nadir

Megrez at the nadir with the Midheaven builds career success on hidden foundations of pivotal connecting discipline.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does the name Megrez mean?

The name Megrez comes from Arabic: Al Maghriz, meaning "The Root of the Tail." Delta Ursae Majoris. The star is known by 3 different cultural names across world traditions.

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