Mirfak
Alpha Persei · Perseus
Position (2026)
♊ 2°27' Gemini
Magnitude
1.79
Planetary Nature
Jupiter / Saturn (robson)
Spectral Type
F5Ib
Appearance
A yellow-white supergiant at the heart of the Alpha Persei cluster, the brightest star in Perseus
Name Origin
Language
Arabic
Original Form
Mirfaq al-Thurayyā
Meaning
Elbow of the Pleiades
Alpha Persei. From the Arabic Mirfaq, the elbow. The full name Mirfaq al-Thurayyā (Elbow of the Pleiades) refers to its position in the extended arm of the Perseus figure reaching toward the Pleiades. Also known as Algenib in some older catalogs, a name now assigned to Gamma Pegasi.
Known As
Mirfak in Astrology
Mirfak, the elbow of Perseus the Hero, carries Jupiter-Saturn energy that bestows the ambition and discipline of a true hero's journey. It grants the capacity for bold action guided by a sense of larger purpose, and you often find yourself called to protect or champion causes that require both courage and strategic patience.
Mythology & History
Mirfak takes its name from the Arabic al-Mirfaq, meaning 'the elbow,' describing its position in the right arm of Perseus. It is the brightest star in Perseus and marks the hero's sword arm at the elbow, the joint that delivers the killing blow. In the mythology of Perseus, the right arm is the one that wielded the harpe, the adamantine sickle given by Hermes, to behead Medusa, while Athena provided the polished bronze shield he used to avoid the Gorgon's petrifying gaze. Mirfak's Jupiter-Saturn nature combines the expansive courage needed for the quest with the disciplined precision required for the fatal strike.
Perseus Context
Mirfak marks the elbow of Perseus' sword arm, situated between the hand that holds Medusa's head (where Algol sits) and the shoulder that drives the striking force. Perseus is the constellation of the divinely aided hero, the mortal who accomplished what should have been impossible through a combination of courage, cunning, and supernatural assistance. Mirfak at the elbow represents the mechanical hinge of heroic action: the pivot point where intention becomes execution.
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Natal Conjunctions
Find your conjunctions →Mirfak Conjunct Sun
Mirfak conjunct the Sun produces a personality oriented toward the hero's journey and bold action guided by a sense of higher purpose. You possess the discipline to pursue ambitious goals and the courage to act decisively when the moment demands it, combining Jupiter's vision with Saturn's strategic patience.
Mirfak Conjunct Moon
Mirfak conjunct the Moon creates emotional instincts attuned to the call of adventure and the need for purposeful, courageous action. Your feelings respond strongly to situations requiring heroic intervention, and emotional fulfillment comes through rising to challenges that test your character.
Mirfak Conjunct Mercury
Mirfak conjunct Mercury gives a mind oriented toward strategic heroic action and the disciplined planning of bold enterprises. You think with the clarity of someone preparing for a decisive engagement and communicate with the focused precision of a hero who knows what must be done.
Mirfak Conjunct Venus
Mirfak conjunct Venus brings the hero's devotion to love and creative expression. You pursue beauty and relationship with purposeful courage, and creative work carries the quality of something created in service of a larger quest. Love inspires heroic action rather than passive contentment.
Mirfak Conjunct Mars
Mirfak conjunct Mars amplifies heroic courage into exceptional decisive action. You strike with disciplined precision at the critical moment, possessing both the boldness to act and the strategic awareness to choose the right point of intervention. The hero's timing is your natural gift.
Mirfak Conjunct Jupiter
Mirfak conjunct Jupiter expands the heroic impulse into visionary leadership and philosophical adventure. You pursue large, principled goals with the combined force of courageous action and expansive vision, and your ambition carries the weight of genuine higher purpose.
Mirfak Conjunct Saturn
Mirfak conjunct Saturn grounds heroic impulse in disciplined preparation and strategic patience. You understand that the hero's decisive moment is earned through years of training and preparation, and your courage is strengthened by the depth of your readiness.
Mirfak Conjunct Uranus
Mirfak conjunct Uranus channels heroic energy into unexpected, revolutionary action. You perform the hero's intervention from angles no one anticipated, and your courage breaks with conventional approaches to produce results that change the terms of engagement entirely.
Mirfak Conjunct Neptune
Mirfak conjunct Neptune infuses the hero's journey with spiritual dimension and intuitive guidance. You sense when the moment for decisive action has arrived through inner knowing rather than rational calculation, and your heroic acts carry a quality of divinely guided timing.
Mirfak Conjunct Pluto
Mirfak conjunct Pluto transforms heroic action into encounters with fundamental, life-altering power. You are drawn to situations requiring the total commitment of the hero's sacrifice, and your decisive interventions permanently alter the landscape they enter.
Mirfak Conjunct North Node
Mirfak conjunct the North Node orients destiny toward the hero's path of bold, purposeful action guided by disciplined preparation and higher principle.
Mirfak Conjunct Ascendant
Mirfak on the Ascendant gives the bearing of someone prepared for decisive action. Others sense your readiness and the disciplined courage behind your composure, and your presence communicates the quality of a trained hero awaiting the moment.
Mirfak Conjunct Midheaven
Mirfak on the Midheaven builds a career through decisive, heroic professional action at critical moments. Recognition comes through your ability to act with courage and precision when the stakes are highest, and your reputation rests on proven boldness under pressure.
Paran Interpretations
Parans describe what happens when Mirfak and a planet simultaneously occupy the four angles (rising, culminating, setting, nadir) at a given location.
Mirfak in Paran with Sun
Rising
Mirfak rising with the Sun marks someone who enters life with the hero's instinct for bold, purposeful action.
Culminating
Mirfak culminating with the Sun places heroic decisive action at the absolute peak of public career recognition.
Setting
Mirfak setting with the Sun suggests a legacy of courageous, decisive interventions honored long after their moment.
At the Nadir
Mirfak at the nadir with the Sun reveals a deeply private heroic discipline that silently prepares for decisive outward action.
Mirfak in Paran with Moon
Rising
Mirfak rising with the Moon instills early emotional courage and the instinct to respond heroically to calls for help.
Culminating
Mirfak culminating with the Moon brings emotionally courageous action to its most publicly visible and recognized form.
Setting
Mirfak setting with the Moon indicates heroic emotional courage that matures into wise, principled responsiveness with age.
At the Nadir
Mirfak at the nadir with the Moon conceals deep reserves of emotional courage that surface heroically when others need protection.
Mirfak in Paran with Mercury
Rising
Mirfak rising with Mercury bestows early strategic intelligence and the ability to plan decisive, heroic interventions.
Culminating
Mirfak culminating with Mercury elevates strategic heroic communication and decisive thinking to the highest professional level.
Setting
Mirfak setting with Mercury suggests strategic thinking that grows more heroically precise and disciplined with experience.
At the Nadir
Mirfak at the nadir with Mercury reveals hidden strategic depth and heroic planning ability beneath composed, measured surfaces.
Mirfak in Paran with Venus
Rising
Mirfak rising with Venus shapes early love with the hero's purposeful devotion and courageous creative expression.
Culminating
Mirfak culminating with Venus brings recognition for love and art expressed with heroic purpose and disciplined beauty.
Setting
Mirfak setting with Venus suggests creative and romantic expression that gains heroic depth and purposeful beauty with maturity.
At the Nadir
Mirfak at the nadir with Venus conceals a private heroic devotion to beauty and love that quietly inspires all creative work.
Mirfak in Paran with Mars
Rising
Mirfak rising with Mars produces exceptional early decisive courage and the instinct for precisely timed heroic action.
Culminating
Mirfak culminating with Mars places heroic martial precision and decisive courage at the absolute apex of career achievement.
Setting
Mirfak setting with Mars indicates heroic fighting ability that grows more strategically precise and disciplined with age.
At the Nadir
Mirfak at the nadir with Mars conceals extraordinary reserves of heroic fighting energy deployed at the most critical moments.
Mirfak in Paran with Jupiter
Rising
Mirfak rising with Jupiter expands early heroic instincts into broad, visionary campaigns of principled, bold action.
Culminating
Mirfak culminating with Jupiter brings peak achievement through expansive heroic leadership guided by philosophical principle.
Setting
Mirfak setting with Jupiter indicates growing heroic wisdom and expanding principled influence in the purposeful later years.
At the Nadir
Mirfak at the nadir with Jupiter reveals a vast inner heroic vision and philosophical conviction that fuels all decisive action.
Mirfak in Paran with Saturn
Rising
Mirfak rising with Saturn demands early discipline in preparing for the hero's decisive moments through patient training.
Culminating
Mirfak culminating with Saturn achieves lasting heroic authority through decades of disciplined preparation and proven courage.
Setting
Mirfak setting with Saturn builds an enduring reputation for disciplined heroic action refined and validated across a lifetime.
At the Nadir
Mirfak at the nadir with Saturn establishes the deepest inner reserves of heroic discipline and strategic preparation.
Mirfak in Paran with Ascendant
Rising
Mirfak rising with the Ascendant stamps the personality with the hero's readiness and visible disciplined courage.
Culminating
Mirfak culminating with the Ascendant projects heroic bearing and decisive personal authority onto the widest possible stage.
Setting
Mirfak setting with the Ascendant draws others who sense your heroic preparedness and are reassured by your disciplined courage.
At the Nadir
Mirfak at the nadir with the Ascendant grounds personal identity in deeply private heroic discipline and strategic readiness.
Mirfak in Paran with Midheaven
Rising
Mirfak rising with the Midheaven launches a career defined by decisive, heroic professional action from the earliest steps.
Culminating
Mirfak culminating with the Midheaven represents the apex of career achievement through heroic leadership and bold precision.
Setting
Mirfak setting with the Midheaven indicates a career legacy of heroic interventions and decisive action valued long after.
At the Nadir
Mirfak at the nadir with the Midheaven builds career success on hidden foundations of heroic preparation and strategic discipline.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does the name Mirfak mean?
The name Mirfak comes from Arabic: Mirfaq al-Thurayyā, meaning "Elbow of the Pleiades." Alpha Persei. The star is known by 3 different cultural names across world traditions.
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