Mirach
Beta Andromedae · Andromeda
Position (2026)
♉ 0°47' Taurus
Magnitude
2.07
Planetary Nature
Venus (robson)
Alvidas: Mars / Moon
Spectral Type
M0IIIvar
Appearance
A red giant in the girdle of Andromeda, with a warm golden-orange hue visible to the naked eye
Name Origin
Language
Arabic
Original Form
Al Mīzar
Meaning
The Girdle, the Waistband
Beta Andromedae. From the Arabic Al Mīzar, the girdle or waistband, referring to the zone across Andromeda's body where the star sits. Allen notes confusion with Mizar in Ursa Major due to the shared Arabic root. Also given as Mi'zar al-Musalsal (the Girdle of the Chained Woman).
Known As
Mirach in Astrology
Mirach, in the girdle of Andromeda, carries Venus energy that bestows beauty, artistic sensitivity, and an inspiring quality to the personality. It grants happiness through love and creative expression, and you possess a natural capacity to bring joy and harmony to your surroundings. Relationships are a source of genuine fulfillment.
Mythology & History
Mirach takes its name from the Arabic al-Mi'zar, meaning 'the girdle' or 'the waist cloth,' describing its position at the waist of Andromeda. In the mythology of the chained princess, the girdle represents both adornment and restraint: the garment that defines the figure but also binds it. Mirach's Venus nature gives it a quality of beauty, artistic sensitivity, and the capacity to find joy and inspiration even in constrained circumstances. It was considered by traditional astrologers to be one of the most beneficent stars in the sky for personal happiness.
Andromeda Context
Mirach sits at the waist of Andromeda, the chained princess of Greek mythology. From Mirach, a line of stars extends northward to the Andromeda Galaxy, M31, the nearest major galaxy to our own and one of the most distant objects visible to the naked eye. This association with the gateway to the most remote thing the unaided human eye can perceive gives Mirach an additional quality of connection to the vast and the transcendent. The princess chained to her rock yet gazing toward infinity.
Learn more about Andromeda and its stars.
Natal Conjunctions
Find your conjunctions →Mirach Conjunct Sun
Mirach conjunct the Sun produces a personality of beauty, happiness, and inspiring artistic sensitivity. You radiate a warmth that brings joy to others, and your identity is enriched by a natural capacity for finding and creating harmony.
Mirach Conjunct Moon
Mirach conjunct the Moon creates an emotionally harmonious nature with a deep capacity for happiness through love and creative expression. Your feelings flow naturally toward beauty, and emotional fulfillment arrives through joyful connection.
Mirach Conjunct Mercury
Mirach conjunct Mercury gives a mind of artistic sensitivity and the capacity for inspired, harmonious communication. You express ideas with a beauty that makes them compelling, and intellectual work is strongest when it serves creative purposes.
Mirach Conjunct Venus
Mirach conjunct Venus doubles the capacity for beauty, love, and artistic fulfillment. You possess an exceptional gift for creating harmony and attracting affection, and creative work carries a luminous, genuinely beautiful quality.
Mirach Conjunct Mars
Mirach conjunct Mars channels physical energy into the vigorous pursuit of beauty and creative achievement. You fight for harmony and artistic expression with real determination.
Mirach Conjunct Jupiter
Mirach conjunct Jupiter expands artistic sensitivity into broad, generous creative leadership. You bring beauty and harmony to large-scale endeavors with philosophical depth and genuine warmth.
Mirach Conjunct Saturn
Mirach conjunct Saturn grounds artistic beauty in disciplined craft and patient refinement. You learn that the most inspiring beauty requires years of dedicated practice, and your artistry matures into enduring, structurally sound work.
Mirach Conjunct Uranus
Mirach conjunct Uranus electrifies artistic sensitivity with surprising, unconventional beauty. You discover new forms of harmony that challenge conventional aesthetics while deepening the genuine experience of beauty.
Mirach Conjunct Neptune
Mirach conjunct Neptune refines artistic sensitivity to its most transcendent, spiritually beautiful expression. You channel beauty from sources that feel larger than yourself, and creative work carries a visionary quality of inspired grace.
Mirach Conjunct Pluto
Mirach conjunct Pluto transforms beauty into a profound, emotionally powerful force. Your art and love carry a depth that permanently alters how people experience beauty.
Mirach Conjunct North Node
Mirach conjunct the North Node orients destiny toward developing artistic gifts and the capacity for creating beauty, happiness, and harmony that genuinely enrich others' lives.
Mirach Conjunct Ascendant
Mirach on the Ascendant gives a beautiful, artistically sensitive presence that others find genuinely inspiring. You radiate warmth and creative charm that draws people naturally toward beauty.
Mirach Conjunct Midheaven
Mirach on the Midheaven builds a career through artistic achievement and the capacity for bringing beauty and harmony to professional life. Recognition comes through genuinely beautiful work that inspires.
Paran Interpretations
Parans describe what happens when Mirach and a planet simultaneously occupy the four angles (rising, culminating, setting, nadir) at a given location.
Mirach in Paran with Sun
Rising
Mirach rising with the Sun marks someone who enters life with natural beauty, artistic sensitivity, and harmonious warmth.
Culminating
Mirach culminating with the Sun places artistic achievement and inspiring beauty at the peak of public recognition.
Setting
Mirach setting with the Sun suggests a legacy of beauty and artistic contribution that gains appreciation over time.
At the Nadir
Mirach at the nadir with the Sun reveals a deeply private artistic sensitivity and love of beauty that anchors all outward warmth.
Mirach in Paran with Moon
Rising
Mirach rising with the Moon instills early emotional beauty and a natural gift for harmonious, joyful feeling.
Culminating
Mirach culminating with the Moon brings artistically beautiful emotional expression to its most publicly admired form.
Setting
Mirach setting with the Moon indicates emotional beauty and harmonious sensitivity that deepen with life experience.
At the Nadir
Mirach at the nadir with the Moon conceals a profound inner love of beauty and emotional harmony beneath visible warmth.
Mirach in Paran with Mercury
Rising
Mirach rising with Mercury bestows early facility for beautiful, harmonious communication and artistic speech.
Culminating
Mirach culminating with Mercury elevates artistically beautiful communication to the highest professional distinction.
Setting
Mirach setting with Mercury suggests a mind that grows more beautifully expressive with decades of creative practice.
At the Nadir
Mirach at the nadir with Mercury reveals hidden artistic intelligence and inspired perception beneath visible communication.
Mirach in Paran with Venus
Rising
Mirach rising with Venus shapes early love with exceptional beauty, harmony, and natural artistic charm.
Culminating
Mirach culminating with Venus brings recognition for beauty and love of extraordinary warmth and artistry.
Setting
Mirach setting with Venus suggests love and creativity that grow more deeply beautiful with the passage of years.
At the Nadir
Mirach at the nadir with Venus conceals a private devotion to beauty so deep it operates as the hidden source of all creative joy.
Mirach in Paran with Mars
Rising
Mirach rising with Mars channels early physical energy into vigorous pursuit of beauty and artistic achievement.
Culminating
Mirach culminating with Mars places determined artistic drive at the apex of creative professional achievement.
Setting
Mirach setting with Mars indicates creative determination that grows more vigorously beautiful with maturity.
At the Nadir
Mirach at the nadir with Mars conceals fierce creative drive and artistic determination beneath a harmonious exterior.
Mirach in Paran with Jupiter
Rising
Mirach rising with Jupiter expands early artistic gifts into broad, generous creative vision and philosophical beauty.
Culminating
Mirach culminating with Jupiter brings peak achievement through expansive, beautifully generous creative leadership.
Setting
Mirach setting with Jupiter indicates growing artistic scope and expanding beautiful influence in later years.
At the Nadir
Mirach at the nadir with Jupiter reveals vast inner artistic vision and love of beauty that fuel all creative work.
Mirach in Paran with Saturn
Rising
Mirach rising with Saturn demands early discipline in refining artistic gifts through patient, dedicated practice.
Culminating
Mirach culminating with Saturn achieves the deepest artistic authority through decades of disciplined, beautiful craft.
Setting
Mirach setting with Saturn builds an enduring artistic legacy of beauty refined and perfected across a lifetime.
At the Nadir
Mirach at the nadir with Saturn establishes inner reserves of artistic discipline that sustain a lifetime of beautiful output.
Mirach in Paran with Ascendant
Rising
Mirach rising with the Ascendant stamps the personality with visible beauty, artistic warmth, and inspiring charm.
Culminating
Mirach culminating with the Ascendant projects artistic beauty and harmonious presence onto the broadest stage.
Setting
Mirach setting with the Ascendant draws others who are inspired by your genuinely beautiful presence.
At the Nadir
Mirach at the nadir with the Ascendant grounds identity in deeply private artistic sensitivity and love of beauty.
Mirach in Paran with Midheaven
Rising
Mirach rising with the Midheaven launches a career oriented toward artistic achievement and beautiful creative work.
Culminating
Mirach culminating with the Midheaven represents peak career achievement through genuinely inspiring artistic excellence.
Setting
Mirach setting with the Midheaven indicates a career legacy of beautiful creative contributions admired long after.
At the Nadir
Mirach at the nadir with the Midheaven builds career success on hidden foundations of artistic discipline and devoted beauty.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does the name Mirach mean?
The name Mirach comes from Arabic: Al Mīzar, meaning "The Girdle, the Waistband." Beta Andromedae. The star is known by 2 different cultural names across world traditions.
Lunar Mansions
Mirach serves as the determinant star for these 2 lunar mansions across different traditions.
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