Mimosa
Beta Crucis · Crux
Position (2026)
♏ 12°01' Scorpio
Magnitude
1.25
Planetary Nature
Jupiter (robson)
Not in Robson (too far south). Nature assigned from general Crux character.
Spectral Type
B0.5III
Appearance
A blue-white variable giant at the left arm of the Southern Cross, the second brightest star in Crux
Name Origin
Language
Modern Latin
Original Form
Mimosa
Meaning
Named for the mimosa flower
Beta Crucis. The name Mimosa references the flowering plant, likely applied for the star's color or its position in the Cross figure, though the exact origin of the association is not recorded by Allen. Also known as Becrux (Beta + Crux, a modern abbreviation like Acrux). The star had no classical name since Crux was part of Centaurus in antiquity.
Known As
Mimosa in Astrology
Mimosa, in the Southern Cross in Crux, carries Jupiter energy that bestows intuitive wisdom, spiritual sensitivity, and a talent for ritual or ceremonial expression. It grants you a connection to transcendent meaning and the capacity for experiences that bridge the human and the divine. Faith is informed by direct inner experience.
Mythology & History
Mimosa, also known as Beta Crucis, takes its name from the flower, an association that may derive from its position in the Southern Cross's distinctive pattern. The name was popularized by navigators who encountered the Cross during voyages through tropical regions where mimosa trees grow. Like Acrux and Gacrux, Mimosa was not individually named by Mediterranean cultures. Its Jupiter nature gives it an expansive, optimistic quality, and its brilliance makes it one of the most prominent stars in the southern sky.
Crux Context
Mimosa marks the eastern arm of the Southern Cross, the left transverse point as seen from the southern hemisphere. While Acrux anchors the base and Gacrux caps the top, Mimosa provides the horizontal extension that gives the Cross its distinctive cruciform shape. The cross arm points generally toward the east, and in navigation the full cross was used to determine south. Mimosa's position at the eastern arm associates it with new beginnings and the direction of sunrise.
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Natal Conjunctions
Find your conjunctions →Mimosa Conjunct Sun
Mimosa conjunct the Sun produces a personality attuned to intuitive wisdom and the rhythms of spiritual life. You carry a natural sensitivity to ceremony and ritual, and your identity is enriched by engagement with traditions that honor transitions, seasons, and thresholds.
Mimosa Conjunct Moon
Mimosa conjunct the Moon creates an emotionally intuitive nature with deep sensitivity to the sacred dimension of feeling. Your instincts are remarkably accurate, and emotional life carries a quality of ritualistic depth that transforms ordinary experiences into meaningful passages.
Mimosa Conjunct Mercury
Mimosa conjunct Mercury gives a mind sensitive to symbolic and mythological patterns of thought. You communicate with an intuitive quality that reaches beyond literal meaning, and intellectual work is strongest when it engages imagination alongside analysis.
Mimosa Conjunct Venus
Mimosa conjunct Venus draws love and beauty toward spiritual sensitivity and devotional expression. You experience relationships as sacred passages and are attracted to art that evokes wonder and transcendence. Creative expression carries a luminous, otherworldly quality.
Mimosa Conjunct Mars
Mimosa conjunct Mars channels physical energy into passionate spiritual engagement and the active pursuit of transcendent experience. You approach sacred practice with vigor and possess the courage to cross thresholds that more cautious seekers avoid.
Mimosa Conjunct Jupiter
Mimosa conjunct Jupiter amplifies spiritual intuition into expansive faith and ceremonial leadership. You possess a talent for making sacred traditions accessible without diminishing their power, and your optimism has a genuinely transcendent quality rooted in direct experience.
Mimosa Conjunct Saturn
Mimosa conjunct Saturn grounds spiritual intuition in disciplined practice and structured devotion. You learn that the deepest spiritual insights require patient cultivation, and your ceremonial authority grows through years of faithful attendance to tradition.
Mimosa Conjunct Uranus
Mimosa conjunct Uranus electrifies spiritual sensitivity with sudden insight and unconventional ceremonial forms. You receive intuitive wisdom through unexpected channels and pioneer new ritual expressions that reconnect ancient patterns with contemporary experience.
Mimosa Conjunct Neptune
Mimosa conjunct Neptune heightens spiritual sensitivity to its most refined and mystical expression. You possess an almost transparent receptivity to the numinous, and creative or devotional work carries a quality of direct communion with something beyond the personal.
Mimosa Conjunct Pluto
Mimosa conjunct Pluto deepens spiritual engagement into direct encounters with transformative, regenerative power. You are drawn to rites of passage, death-and-rebirth symbolism, and spiritual traditions that do not flinch from the shadow side of sacred experience.
Mimosa Conjunct North Node
Mimosa conjunct the North Node orients destiny toward developing intuitive spiritual gifts and the capacity for ceremonial or ritual leadership. Your life path requires learning to trust and serve transcendent wisdom.
Mimosa Conjunct Ascendant
Mimosa on the Ascendant gives a luminous, spiritually sensitive presence that others find both calming and subtly otherworldly. You project an intuitive quality that suggests connection to realities beyond the immediately visible.
Mimosa Conjunct Midheaven
Mimosa on the Midheaven builds a career through spiritual insight, ceremonial leadership, or creative work infused with transcendent sensitivity. Professional recognition comes through your capacity to make the sacred practically accessible.
Paran Interpretations
Parans describe what happens when Mimosa and a planet simultaneously occupy the four angles (rising, culminating, setting, nadir) at a given location.
Mimosa in Paran with Sun
Rising
Mimosa rising with the Sun marks someone who enters life with natural spiritual sensitivity and intuitive ceremonial awareness.
Culminating
Mimosa culminating with the Sun places intuitive spiritual insight at the peak of public recognition and achievement.
Setting
Mimosa setting with the Sun suggests a legacy of spiritual wisdom and ceremonial contribution recognized in the later years.
At the Nadir
Mimosa at the nadir with the Sun reveals a deeply private intuitive spirituality that quietly orients all outward expression.
Mimosa in Paran with Moon
Rising
Mimosa rising with the Moon instills early emotional sensitivity to sacred rhythms and ritualistic patterns of feeling.
Culminating
Mimosa culminating with the Moon brings spiritual emotional intelligence to its most visible and publicly effective form.
Setting
Mimosa setting with the Moon indicates spiritual sensitivity that deepens into contemplative emotional wisdom with age.
At the Nadir
Mimosa at the nadir with the Moon conceals profound intuitive emotional depths that operate as the hidden wellspring of feeling.
Mimosa in Paran with Mercury
Rising
Mimosa rising with Mercury bestows early aptitude for symbolic thinking and communication that bridges the rational and intuitive.
Culminating
Mimosa culminating with Mercury elevates mythological and spiritual communication to the highest professional expression.
Setting
Mimosa setting with Mercury suggests symbolic and intuitive intelligence that grows richer and more articulate with maturity.
At the Nadir
Mimosa at the nadir with Mercury reveals a hidden capacity for intuitive thought and mythological understanding beneath rational surfaces.
Mimosa in Paran with Venus
Rising
Mimosa rising with Venus shapes early aesthetic sensibility toward the luminous, the transcendent, and the spiritually beautiful.
Culminating
Mimosa culminating with Venus brings recognition for art and love infused with genuine spiritual sensitivity and devotion.
Setting
Mimosa setting with Venus suggests creative and romantic expression that grows more spiritually luminous through the years.
At the Nadir
Mimosa at the nadir with Venus conceals a private devotion to transcendent beauty that quietly shapes all creative choices.
Mimosa in Paran with Mars
Rising
Mimosa rising with Mars channels early physical energy into passionate spiritual engagement and active ceremonial participation.
Culminating
Mimosa culminating with Mars places vigorous spiritual action and ritual leadership at the peak of public achievement.
Setting
Mimosa setting with Mars indicates spiritual courage and devotional energy that mature into sustained, purposeful practice.
At the Nadir
Mimosa at the nadir with Mars conceals fierce spiritual determination that surfaces when sacred values require active defense.
Mimosa in Paran with Jupiter
Rising
Mimosa rising with Jupiter expands early spiritual sensitivity into broad, inclusive faith and ceremonial generosity.
Culminating
Mimosa culminating with Jupiter brings peak achievement through expansive spiritual leadership and philosophical depth.
Setting
Mimosa setting with Jupiter indicates growing spiritual wisdom and expanding ceremonial influence in the reflective later years.
At the Nadir
Mimosa at the nadir with Jupiter reveals a vast inner faith and spiritual optimism that silently sustains all outward devotion.
Mimosa in Paran with Saturn
Rising
Mimosa rising with Saturn demands early discipline in developing structured spiritual practice and ceremonial commitment.
Culminating
Mimosa culminating with Saturn achieves deep spiritual authority through decades of faithful, disciplined devotional work.
Setting
Mimosa setting with Saturn builds an enduring legacy of spiritual discipline and ceremonial wisdom deepened by time.
At the Nadir
Mimosa at the nadir with Saturn establishes an unshakable inner spiritual foundation that sustains decades of outward practice.
Mimosa in Paran with Ascendant
Rising
Mimosa rising with the Ascendant stamps the personality with luminous spiritual sensitivity and visible intuitive grace.
Culminating
Mimosa culminating with the Ascendant projects spiritual presence and ceremonial bearing onto the broadest possible stage.
Setting
Mimosa setting with the Ascendant draws others who sense your intuitive spiritual depth and are calmed by it.
At the Nadir
Mimosa at the nadir with the Ascendant grounds personal identity in deeply private spiritual sensitivity and intuitive knowing.
Mimosa in Paran with Midheaven
Rising
Mimosa rising with the Midheaven launches a career oriented toward spiritual service and intuitive leadership from the start.
Culminating
Mimosa culminating with the Midheaven represents peak career achievement through spiritual insight and ceremonial authority.
Setting
Mimosa setting with the Midheaven indicates a career legacy of spiritual contributions and intuitive guidance honored in retrospect.
At the Nadir
Mimosa at the nadir with the Midheaven builds career success on hidden foundations of intuitive wisdom and spiritual commitment.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does the name Mimosa mean?
The name Mimosa comes from Modern Latin: Mimosa, meaning "Named for the mimosa flower." Beta Crucis. The star is known by 3 different cultural names across world traditions.
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