Sadalsuud
Beta Aquarii · Aquarius
Position (2026)
♒ 23°46' Aquarius
Magnitude
2.90
Planetary Nature
Saturn / Mercury (robson)
Simmonite: Uranus
Alvidas: Uranus / Sun (Uranus in sextile to the Sun)
Spectral Type
G0Ib
Appearance
A yellow supergiant on the left shoulder of the Water Bearer, whose heliacal rising once heralded the season of gentle rain
Name Origin
Language
Arabic
Original Form
Sa'd al-Su'ūd
Meaning
The Luckiest of the Lucky
Beta Aquarii. From the Arabic Sa'd al-Su'ūd, meaning the luckiest of the lucky or the luck of lucks. The star's heliacal rising coincided with the end of winter and the beginning of gentle spring weather in Arabia. Part of a group of 'lucky' stars in this region of sky.
Known As
Sadalsuud in Astrology
Sadalsuud, the luckiest of the lucky stars in Aquarius, carries Saturn-Mercury energy that bestows good fortune through intellectual effort, wise planning, and the capacity for turning knowledge into practical advantage. It grants you a talent for finding fortunate outcomes through careful analysis and patient waiting for the right moment to act.
Mythology & History
Sadalsuud, or Beta Aquarii, derives from the Arabic Sa'd al-Su'ud, meaning 'the luckiest of the lucky' or 'the luck of lucks,' making it the most superlatively fortunate star in Arabic astronomical tradition. The name refers to its heliacal rising coinciding with the end of winter and the return of spring warmth in the latitude of Arabia, a genuinely fortunate celestial event for pastoral peoples. In astrological tradition, Sadalsuud combines Saturn and Mercury in a way that produces profound insight, the ability to see through surface appearances to underlying truth, and a quiet wisdom that operates without fanfare.
Aquarius Context
Sadalsuud is the brightest star in Aquarius the Water Bearer, a constellation identified with Ganymede, the beautiful youth carried to Olympus by Zeus's eagle to serve as cupbearer to the gods. Other traditions connect Aquarius to Deucalion, survivor of the great flood, or to the Egyptian god of the Nile inundation. The constellation's association with the pouring of water represents the distribution of life-giving resources, knowledge, or spiritual sustenance to the world below. Sadalsuud, despite its Beta designation, is the brightest star in Aquarius and sits at the source of this cosmic outpouring.
Learn more about Aquarius and its stars.
Natal Conjunctions
Find your conjunctions →Sadalsuud Conjunct Sun
Sadalsuud conjunct the Sun produces a personality of quiet, deep fortune and the capacity for good luck that operates through patient wisdom rather than flashy intervention. You possess the luckiest star's quality of success that arrives through profound insight and seeing through illusion.
Sadalsuud Conjunct Moon
Sadalsuud conjunct the Moon creates emotional instincts of fortunate, deeply wise sensitivity. Your feelings carry a quality of benevolent insight, and emotional security comes through the depth of your intuitive understanding rather than surface comfort.
Sadalsuud Conjunct Mercury
Sadalsuud conjunct Mercury gives a mind of profoundly fortunate, wisely penetrating intelligence. You think with a quality of deep insight that consistently produces fortunate conclusions, seeing through what confuses others.
Sadalsuud Conjunct Venus
Sadalsuud conjunct Venus brings quiet, deeply fortunate beauty to love and creative expression. You attract good fortune in relationships through genuine depth rather than surface charm, and creative work carries benevolent, wisely beautiful quality.
Sadalsuud Conjunct Mars
Sadalsuud conjunct Mars channels assertive energy through deeply fortunate, wisely directed action. You fight with the quiet confidence of someone whose insight produces consistently favorable outcomes through patience rather than force.
Sadalsuud Conjunct Jupiter
Sadalsuud conjunct Jupiter amplifies deep fortune into expansive, profoundly wise philosophical leadership. You possess the scope to distribute benevolent insight broadly and attract cosmic-scale good fortune through genuine philosophical depth.
Sadalsuud Conjunct Saturn
Sadalsuud conjunct Saturn grounds deep fortune in disciplined, structurally wise patience. You learn that the deepest luck requires the deepest preparation, and your fortunate wisdom grows more reliably beneficial with each decade.
Sadalsuud Conjunct Uranus
Sadalsuud conjunct Uranus brings unexpectedly profound fortunate insights and surprising demonstrations of deep cosmic luck. Your good fortune arrives through channels no conventional thinking could have predicted.
Sadalsuud Conjunct Neptune
Sadalsuud conjunct Neptune refines deep fortune into the most spiritually transparent, cosmically benevolent wisdom. You perceive the fortunate dimension of existence with a clarity that approaches the mystical.
Sadalsuud Conjunct Pluto
Sadalsuud conjunct Pluto transforms deep fortune into encounters with the most profound, fundamentally transformative good luck. Your benevolent insight operates at depths that permanently alter what it touches.
Sadalsuud Conjunct North Node
Sadalsuud conjunct the North Node orients destiny toward developing the deep, patient wisdom that attracts genuine cosmic fortune through insight rather than grasping.
Sadalsuud Conjunct Ascendant
Sadalsuud on the Ascendant gives a quietly fortunate, deeply wise presence. Others sense your benevolent insight and are drawn to the quality of profound good luck that surrounds you without fanfare.
Sadalsuud Conjunct Midheaven
Sadalsuud on the Midheaven builds a career through deeply fortunate, wisely patient professional judgment. Recognition comes for the consistently beneficial quality of your profoundly insightful professional contributions.
Paran Interpretations
Parans describe what happens when Sadalsuud and a planet simultaneously occupy the four angles (rising, culminating, setting, nadir) at a given location.
Sadalsuud in Paran with Sun
Rising
Sadalsuud rising with the Sun marks someone who enters life with deep, quiet fortune and profoundly insightful instincts.
Culminating
Sadalsuud culminating with the Sun places deeply fortunate wisdom at the peak of public career achievement.
Setting
Sadalsuud setting with the Sun suggests a legacy of profound, quietly fortunate insight honored in the later years.
At the Nadir
Sadalsuud at the nadir with the Sun reveals extraordinary hidden reserves of cosmic fortune that silently shape all outward luck.
Sadalsuud in Paran with Moon
Rising
Sadalsuud rising with the Moon instills early emotional depth of fortunate, benevolently wise sensitivity.
Culminating
Sadalsuud culminating with the Moon brings deeply fortunate emotional wisdom to its most publicly effective form.
Setting
Sadalsuud setting with the Moon indicates fortunate emotional insight that grows more profoundly beneficial with experience.
At the Nadir
Sadalsuud at the nadir with the Moon conceals deep reserves of cosmically fortunate feeling beneath composed, wise surfaces.
Sadalsuud in Paran with Mercury
Rising
Sadalsuud rising with Mercury bestows exceptional early depth of fortunate, penetratingly wise intelligence.
Culminating
Sadalsuud culminating with Mercury elevates deeply fortunate, profoundly insightful thinking to professional distinction.
Setting
Sadalsuud setting with Mercury suggests a mind that grows more profoundly fortunate and penetratingly wise with decades.
At the Nadir
Sadalsuud at the nadir with Mercury reveals hidden reserves of deeply fortunate insight beneath measured communication.
Sadalsuud in Paran with Venus
Rising
Sadalsuud rising with Venus shapes early love with quiet, deeply fortunate beauty and benevolently wise devotion.
Culminating
Sadalsuud culminating with Venus brings recognition for beauty expressed with profoundly fortunate, wise depth.
Setting
Sadalsuud setting with Venus suggests creative expression that grows more quietly fortunate and wisely beautiful with time.
At the Nadir
Sadalsuud at the nadir with Venus conceals deep reserves of fortunate beauty and benevolent creative wisdom.
Sadalsuud in Paran with Mars
Rising
Sadalsuud rising with Mars channels early energy into deeply fortunate, wisely directed competitive action.
Culminating
Sadalsuud culminating with Mars places quietly fortunate, wisely directed assertive force at the apex of achievement.
Setting
Sadalsuud setting with Mars indicates fortunate fighting wisdom that grows more deeply effective with experience.
At the Nadir
Sadalsuud at the nadir with Mars conceals reserves of deeply fortunate, wisely patient competitive energy.
Sadalsuud in Paran with Jupiter
Rising
Sadalsuud rising with Jupiter expands early deep fortune into broad, cosmically benevolent philosophical leadership.
Culminating
Sadalsuud culminating with Jupiter brings peak achievement through expansive, deeply fortunate wise guidance.
Setting
Sadalsuud setting with Jupiter indicates growing cosmic fortune and expanding profound influence in later years.
At the Nadir
Sadalsuud at the nadir with Jupiter reveals vast inner cosmic fortune and philosophical depth that fuel all benevolent wisdom.
Sadalsuud in Paran with Saturn
Rising
Sadalsuud rising with Saturn demands early discipline in developing the patient, structurally deep fortune of mature wisdom.
Culminating
Sadalsuud culminating with Saturn achieves lasting authority through decades of quietly fortunate, disciplined professional wisdom.
Setting
Sadalsuud setting with Saturn builds an enduring legacy of deep cosmic fortune and patient wisdom honored across a lifetime.
At the Nadir
Sadalsuud at the nadir with Saturn establishes the deepest inner reserves of cosmically fortunate discipline and wise patience.
Sadalsuud in Paran with Ascendant
Rising
Sadalsuud rising with the Ascendant stamps the personality with quietly fortunate, deeply wise presence.
Culminating
Sadalsuud culminating with the Ascendant projects profound cosmic fortune and benevolent wisdom onto the broadest stage.
Setting
Sadalsuud setting with the Ascendant draws others who sense your deep fortune and are benefited by your wise presence.
At the Nadir
Sadalsuud at the nadir with the Ascendant grounds identity in deeply private cosmic fortune and profound inner wisdom.
Sadalsuud in Paran with Midheaven
Rising
Sadalsuud rising with the Midheaven launches a career built on deeply fortunate, wisely patient professional judgment.
Culminating
Sadalsuud culminating with the Midheaven represents peak career achievement through profoundly fortunate professional wisdom.
Setting
Sadalsuud setting with the Midheaven indicates a career legacy of deeply fortunate, wisely insightful contributions.
At the Nadir
Sadalsuud at the nadir with the Midheaven builds career success on hidden foundations of cosmic fortune and patient wisdom.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does the name Sadalsuud mean?
The name Sadalsuud comes from Arabic: Sa'd al-Su'ūd, meaning "The Luckiest of the Lucky." Beta Aquarii. The star is known by 3 different cultural names across world traditions.
Lunar Mansions
Sadalsuud serves as the determinant star for these 2 lunar mansions across different traditions.
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