Scheat
Beta Pegasi · Pegasus
Last updated
Position (2026)
♓ 29°44′ Pisces
Magnitude
2.44
Planetary Nature
Mars / Mercury (Robson)
Simmonite: Saturn
Alvidas: Neptune / Saturn / Mars (Neptune in square to Saturn or Mars)
Spectral Type
M2II-IIIvar
Appearance
An irregularly variable deep red giant on the left leg of Pegasus, forming another corner of the Great Square
Name Origin
Language
Arabic
Original Form
Al Sā'id
Meaning
The Upper Arm, the Shin
Beta Pegasi. The etymology is debated. Allen gives Al Sā'id (the Upper Arm) or from Shi'at (a Rib). Others derive it from the Arabic sāq (the shin or leg). It forms the northwest corner of the Great Square of Pegasus and is notable as a semi-regular variable star.
Known As
One corner of Pegasus's Great Square belongs to Scheat. The winged horse sprang from Medusa's blood and later threw Bellerophon when he tried to ride to heaven. The Square's straight lines give the star its theme, an independent mind able to question an accepted philosophy and work out another account. The old lists surround the star with danger from water and trouble through writing. Intellectual freedom has a social cost here. Original thought can sustain work long after agreement has ended, while criticism can turn a difference over an idea into a quarrel between friends.
An independent mind can make life awkward. With Scheat, Brady reads a need to think outside conventional philosophy, while Robson's Mercury paragraph describes enemies and trouble through writing. The two accounts meet at a recognizable experience, having something to say that other people resist. They differ sharply over how much else to expect from the star. [2] [5]
Robson's Scheat is severe even by his own standards. Water accidents recur throughout entry 93, and his general judgment ends in violent death. These are the old delineation register's extremes, to be weighed against the whole chart rather than treated as a person's future. Brady reads intellect through the Great Square of Pegasus. With her account, the work begins when an accepted explanation no longer satisfies you and you have to develop your own. [2] [5]
In September 2044, Scheat crosses into tropical Aries. In 2026 it is still at 29°44′ Pisces. Its place at a corner of the Great Square remains the same across that sign change. Brady develops her reading from the Square's shape, so intellectual independence continues to matter after the crossing. [1] [5]
Scheat by birth year
On 1 January 2026, Scheat stood at ♓ 29°44′ Pisces in the tropical zodiac.
It has been in Pisces since before the year 1000 and reaches Aries in 2044.
Positions are for 1 January of each year; a star moves about 50 arcseconds a year, so a birth late in the decade sits close to the next row.
| Born in | Position |
|---|---|
| 1900 | ♓ 27°59′ Pisces |
| 1910 | ♓ 28°07′ Pisces |
| 1920 | ♓ 28°16′ Pisces |
| 1930 | ♓ 28°24′ Pisces |
| 1940 | ♓ 28°32′ Pisces |
| 1950 | ♓ 28°40′ Pisces |
| 1960 | ♓ 28°49′ Pisces |
| 1970 | ♓ 28°57′ Pisces |
| 1980 | ♓ 29°06′ Pisces |
| 1990 | ♓ 29°14′ Pisces |
| 2000 | ♓ 29°22′ Pisces |
| 2010 | ♓ 29°31′ Pisces |
| 2020 | ♓ 29°39′ Pisces |
| 2030 | ♓ 29°48′ Pisces |
From latitudes poleward of 61.8° S it never rises, and from latitudes poleward of 61.8° N it never sets (geometric horizon, refraction ignored).
Computed by the Augurine engine on the apparent equinox of date from HYG coordinates with proper motion applied (engine build 1c1cc33).
The independent mind at Scheat's corner of the Square
Brady takes the square as a figure of intellect and logic, in contrast to the circle's intuition. Her Scheat reading concerns the need to think independently, sometimes through a break with accepted philosophy. Allen describes the Great Square as enclosing the Horse's body, so her interpretation starts from a visible arrangement of stars. She chooses the Square over the exploits of the winged animal. [1] [5]
You stop accepting an explanation because it leaves something unresolved. Developing an alternative takes longer than finding the flaw. With Scheat, you have to do that further work. Put your own explanation under the same scrutiny you gave the familiar one, especially where you most want it to hold.
Brady reports mental creativity from Ebertin and turbulence with rapidly changing friendships from Rigor. Robson's Moon paragraph also describes gaining and losing friends through criticism. Intellectual freedom has a social cost in both accounts. [2] [5] How you handle disagreement matters most with people you want to stay close to. You can examine an idea rigorously and still decide how much of a friendship should depend on agreement about it.
Scheat in the words you publish and the company you keep
With Mercury. Many accidents and narrow escapes especially by water, many enemies, trouble through writings, bad for health and domestic affairs.
With Mercury, you publish an argument and have to handle the response. Robson singles out writing; Brady gives Kepler a rising Mercury with a rising Scheat and discusses independent thought. [2] [5] A close natal Mercury conjunction puts thought expressed in words at the center of the encounter. In the co-rising relationship Brady describes, you meet the world through that intellectual work. Ask what you publish or say, and how you respond when the answer is hostile.
With the Sun, Robson warns about success and accidents involving water or machinery. Brady's Newton example has the Sun setting while Scheat culminates, and she relates it to the foundations of science. [2] [5] With a Sun contact, you invest yourself in an independent position. You keep working at an explanation after others have lost interest because your own judgment matters enough to sustain the effort. In Newton's example the Sun and star occupy different angles; that allows a reading in which personal purpose and publicly visible work develop together.
Venus changes the subject. Robson describes an adverse environment and suffering through one's own acts, with confinement among his warnings. Brady gives Jung a setting Scheat as Venus culminates, and reads mental creativity in human relationships. [2] [5] With Venus, you question familiar accounts of attraction or the expectations within a relationship. Look at the agreements you make with another person and whether your ideas leave room for that person's experience.
With Neptune. Prominent in inventive, occult or psychic matters, persecuted, peculiar domestic conditions, many accidents, danger of drowning.
Robson gives Neptune inventive prominence. His Moon reading puts criticism and changing friendships alongside worry. [2] With Neptune, consider how people have received your unusual work. With the Moon, criticism of an idea risks becoming a judgment of the friend who holds it. Keep the disagreement specific enough that both of you know what is being challenged.
On an angle, Scheat's independent thought takes a more visible place in the life. Brady describes Einstein with the star culminating, as well as the more detailed planetary examples above. [5] On the Ascendant, you approach life openly from your own premises; on the Midheaven, other people encounter those ideas through your work. Scheat lies about 31° north of the ecliptic, so a conjunction to an angle's zodiac degree and the star itself rising or culminating are different contacts. Augurine's calculator uses a 30′ conjunction orb for Scheat. Check which of those contacts your chart contains before comparing it with Brady's examples.
Why water recurs in Scheat's warnings
Influence. According to Ptolemy it is of the nature of Mars and Mercury; to Simmonite, of Saturn; to other authors, of Saturn and Mercury ; and, to Alvidas, of Neptune in square to Saturn or Mars. It causes extreme misfortune, murder, suicide, and drowning.
Allen already records an astrological danger from water for Beta Pegasi. He places Scheat and Markab together in the Arabic Fore Spout mansion, named for a water-bucket, and records other water-related names for the pair. [1] Water therefore has a history here beyond the modern description of Scheat as a Pisces star. Robson makes it a repeated danger in his individual planetary readings. [2]
Robson ends the entry with two compound conditions. First he joins Scheat to a malefic while the Moon is with Sirius, then substitutes Wega, his spelling of Vega, in a second violent condition. [2] Both involve more than a Scheat conjunction alone. When reading those configurations, distinguish the planets and stars involved before discussing any conflict the person has experienced.
Scheat's upper arm and the rising Horse
Allen derives Scheat either from Al Sa'id, the upper part of the arm, or from an earlier Sa'd proposed by Hyde. He also records an Arabic name for the Horse's shoulder. Robson places the star on Pegasus's left leg. A similarly named star, Skat in Aquarius, has its own proposed derivations from a wish or a shin-bone. Allen discusses that star separately as Delta Aquarii. Scheat on a chart is Beta Pegasi, the Pegasus star whose older names refer to the arm or shoulder. [1] [2]
the bright stars in the Horse, of Mars and Mercury;
Ptolemy gives Mars and Mercury to the Horse's bright stars as a group. Hephaistio agrees, using the names Ares and Hermes. [3] [4] In a natal reading, that Mars and Mercury pair fits the willingness to contest an explanation and put another into words. Brady supplies the particular emphasis on intellectual independence. [5]
The older Horse readings have more physical concerns. In Book 1, Manilius describes a bright star at the Horse's front, which Goold identifies as Scheat in his footnote. In Book V, Manilius describes the Winged Horse rising with the twenty-first degree of Pisces and gives it bodily quickness. Firmicus uses the same rising degree for work with horses and driving; he gives a severe accident warning when the Horse sets with malefic planets in aspect. These are readings of the whole Horse appearing at the horizon alongside that zodiac degree. [6] [7]
Scheat enters Aries in September 2044
Scheat reaches tropical Aries in September 2044. In 2026 it is still at 29°44′ Pisces; in 2030 it reaches 29°48′ Pisces. Robson printed 28°15′ Pisces for 1920, which explains the earlier degree in his entry. [2] For a natal chart, use the position for the birth year. Scheat was at 29°22′ Pisces in 2000. A present-day degree can miss a close natal contact when the allowance is narrow.
Scheat's independent thought remains central to the reading after the Aries crossing. Ptolemy's Mars and Mercury comparison concerns the Horse, and Brady develops her account from the Great Square. Neither starts from Scheat's tropical sign. [3] [5] A planet in early Aries can therefore have a Scheat contact in a later chart, while the corresponding contact in an earlier birth chart lies in late Pisces.
Medusa's blood and Scheat's corner of the Horse
Pegasus springs from Medusa's blood after Perseus severs her head. The blood falls into the sea, and Neptune commands the birth of the horse, his son by Medusa. The four stars of the Great Square enclose the Horse's body, with Scheat at one corner, in Allen's description. [1]
The horse is snowy white. He opens the Muses' fountain and becomes their favorite. Bellerophon catches him at the waters of that fountain and rides him against the Chimaera. Pegasus helps his rider destroy the creature. [1]
Bellerophon now has a winged horse to ride and tries to ascend to heaven. Jupiter, angry at his boldness, sends an insect to sting Pegasus. The horse throws Bellerophon, and his rider falls headlong from the sky. [1]
Pegasus then rose alone to his permanent place among the stars, becoming the Thundering Horse of Jove that carried the divine lightning.
How the authors read Scheat
| Source | Nature | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Ptolemy | Mars and Mercury | Ptolemy gives Mars and Mercury to the bright stars of the Horse collectively in Tetrabiblos 1.9. [3] |
| Hephaistio of Thebes | Mars and Mercury | Hephaistio gives the bright stars of Pegasus Ares and Hermes, the same planetary pair as Ptolemy. [4] |
| Vivian Robson | Mars and Mercury | Robson follows Ptolemy's assignment but gives a severely adverse reading. He also reports Saturn from Simmonite and Neptune square Saturn or Mars from Alvidas. [2] |
| Bernadette Brady | no planetary mixture given | Brady reads the Great Square through intellect and independent thought. Her examples develop that reading through particular planets and angles. [5] |
| Firmicus Maternus | no planetary mixture given | Firmicus describes the whole Horse rising with the twenty-first degree of Pisces, with an emphasis on skilled work with horses and driving. [7] |
Natal Conjunctions
Find your conjunctions →Scheat Conjunct Sun
With this Sun contact, defending an explanation of your own risks becoming a test of personal purpose. Robson's Sun list is adverse to success and warns about water or machinery; its accident language reflects his 1923 register. Brady reads Newton's setting Sun and culminating Scheat as genius directed at the foundations of science; her natal reading of the star is independent thinking. For a conjunction, read the investment in your own thinking alongside the difficulty of gaining acceptance. You may keep working on a problem even while acceptance of your approach remains uncertain.
Scheat Conjunct Moon
A friend who questions your idea has touched a sensitive point if you hear criticism as rejection. Robson describes worry and the loss or gain of friends through criticism, alongside poor prospects for financial gain. Brady also reports unstable friendships from Rigor. The reading concerns sensitivity to how your ideas are received, especially among people whose company matters to you. A friendship may allow substantial disagreement; notice when the wish to correct another person starts to outweigh the wish to understand them.
Scheat Conjunct Mercury
Writing gives intellectual independence a form other people can challenge. Robson singles out enemies and trouble through writing; Brady illustrates intellectual independence with Kepler's co-rising Mercury and Scheat. That combination supports a reading concerned with developing an argument outside accepted explanations. With a longitude conjunction, consider both the quality of your reasoning and how you present it. An objection can help you sharpen the argument without requiring you to surrender the question that started it.
Scheat Conjunct Venus
Agreements about love deserve room for independent thought. Robson's Venus account describes difficult surroundings and suffering through one's own actions, with restraint among his warnings. Brady takes a different direction through Jung's Venus paran and mental creativity in relationships. In a partnership, the conjunction concerns the expectations you accept or question. An unusual arrangement needs as much mutual understanding as a familiar one; the reading concerns how two people negotiate the relationship they actually want.
Scheat Conjunct Mars
Trying an unconventional method requires attention to what happens in practice. Robson's Mars list stresses accidents and poor returns, with illness also in his account. Brady's independent-thinking reading shifts attention to how you act when convinced you are right. A disputed idea may be worth trying on a limited scale, with enough room to revise a decision once its consequences are clear.
Scheat Conjunct Jupiter
A philosophy that changes your outlook also asks you to reconsider the plans made under your old beliefs. Robson lists extensive travel but also losses involving law, friends or relatives, and the possibility of confinement. His account gives more friction than the usual expansive Jupiter reading. Here, independent thinking reaches into beliefs and the commitments made on their behalf. The promises that accompany a new outlook need attention, particularly shared financial obligations.
Scheat Conjunct Saturn
Working alone on a difficult idea can put pressure on domestic life. Robson describes trouble at home and little satisfaction from gain or pleasure; his fatal and medical statements need the weight appropriate to a 1923 list. The conjunction can be read through the demands of sustaining an independent position over time. Notice which duties support the work and which have become habitual restrictions. A schedule crowded with duties leaves little space for thought or for the people sharing your life.
Scheat Conjunct Uranus
Changing your mind feels less liberating when someone else is left with an unfinished commitment. Robson's Uranus paragraph stresses vacillation and unreliable conduct, with difficulties arising from one's own actions. That gives a more demanding reading than celebrating unconventionality by itself. The pattern to watch is a new explanation displacing an earlier one before either has been examined. Independence is useful here when you can explain a revision clearly and take responsibility for the decisions made under the previous understanding.
Scheat Conjunct Neptune
Other people sometimes encounter an invention before they understand the thinking behind it. Robson allows prominence in invention or occult pursuits, but describes persecution and unusual domestic circumstances in the same paragraph. The conjunction concerns imaginative inquiry and the difficulty of making it intelligible to others. You may need privacy while an idea develops. Give that idea a form in which another person can engage with it and ask questions.
Scheat Conjunct Pluto
Whose explanation you accept matters especially when it also determines who has authority. Intellectual independence is under pressure here, especially where accepting an account also means accepting someone else's authority. The wish to uncover what has been excluded can support sustained inquiry. It can also make every disagreement feel like a contest over control. Keep the reading close to what you are trying to understand and whether your inquiry still permits an answer you did not expect.
Scheat Conjunct North Node
Choosing a teacher involves deciding how much room you have to question what you are taught. The conjunction suggests a direction in which you develop a more independent account of your experience, sometimes after outgrowing an explanation learned from others. That need can shape your choice of collaborators or teachers. Consider which relationships allow questions and which require agreement as the price of belonging. Seek people with whom you can think freely and still remain in conversation.
Scheat Conjunct Ascendant
You meet an expected answer with a question of your own. Brady reads this star through a need to depart from conventional thinking, which gives the Ascendant a concern with how openly you express your own premises. Because Scheat lies well north of the ecliptic, a longitude conjunction to the Ascendant differs from the star's actual rising. Read the conjunction through everyday encounters in which you decide whether to explain your view or accept the expected answer.
Scheat Conjunct Midheaven
In public work, people beyond your immediate circle get to question your reasoning. Brady's example of Einstein has Scheat culminating at birth, and her interpretation concentrates on intellectual independence. A Midheaven conjunction puts that concern into a career reading: what you are prepared to argue publicly and the work through which others assess it. Taking professional responsibility for an explanation of your own can involve answering objections as well as presenting the work.
Paran Interpretations
Parans describe what happens when Scheat and a planet simultaneously occupy the four angles (rising, culminating, setting, nadir) at a given location.
Scheat in Paran with Sun
Rising
Thinking for yourself helps define what you want to pursue when life or a major undertaking begins, and how you intend to pursue it.
Culminating
Work others can build upon receives emphasis at professional maturity, as in Brady's example of Newton's setting Sun and culminating Scheat.
Setting
Later recognition may concern work pursued on your own terms. Partnerships then test how much agreement you need from someone who shares your life.
At the Nadir
Study gives you room to return privately to a purpose that has occupied you for years. The significance of an independent position may become clearer in old age or through work left for others.
Scheat in Paran with Moon
Rising
Early belonging may involve explaining why you think differently from those around you. Emotional security depends partly on whether questions are welcome at home.
Culminating
Friendships and public acceptance become entangled at the busiest stage of life. Criticism needs care when people hear disagreement with an idea as rejection of them.
Setting
Longstanding friendships offer room to reconsider old disagreements. Later relationships benefit when affection can survive a difference of opinion that neither person intends to resolve.
At the Nadir
Family assumptions remain open to question in your private thoughts long after childhood. In later reflection, you may find a more independent account of what home meant to you.
Scheat in Paran with Mercury
Rising
An independent argument takes shape early. Brady gives Kepler a co-rising Mercury and Scheat, an example of intellectual work that questions an accepted account of the world.
Culminating
Published work or teaching puts your reasoning before a wider audience. At professional maturity, the task is to make an unfamiliar explanation clear enough for others to examine.
Setting
A conversation in later years gives you reason to reopen a question you once considered settled. Collaboration allows you to revise an argument without giving up the inquiry behind it.
At the Nadir
Unpublished notes may contain the questions that matter most to you. Work developed in private can become intelligible to others much later, including after your lifetime.
Scheat in Paran with Venus
Rising
First attachments prompt questions about what a relationship should be. An early preference for an unusual arrangement needs a language both people can understand.
Culminating
Creative work makes your ideas about human relationships visible. At the public height of life, familiar accounts of attraction may become material for reconsideration.
Setting
Partnership becomes a place for intellectual creativity. Brady's Jung example has Scheat setting as Venus culminates; later relationships can develop through questioning assumptions about how people relate.
At the Nadir
Two people have room to make intimate agreements outside public expectations. Over time, the private life you have made with another person may change how you understand affection or commitment.
Scheat in Paran with Mars
Rising
You may learn early to try an alternative approach. The important distinction in action is between testing an idea and defending it before it has been tried.
Culminating
Disputed methods require decisions when your work is most visible. A limited trial can give an independent proposal a practical form that colleagues can assess.
Setting
Old arguments may lose their urgency as you choose which disputes still deserve effort. Partners can help you recognise when a contest has outlasted its purpose.
At the Nadir
An independent project gives you work to pursue away from public view. In later life, unfinished experiments may matter more to you than disputes already settled.
Scheat in Paran with Jupiter
Rising
Encountering an unfamiliar philosophy early gives you new questions to ask. Independent thought begins with permission to examine the beliefs you were taught.
Culminating
Teaching or leadership gives an unconventional outlook public reach. At the height of responsibility, consider what commitments you encourage other people to make through your ideas.
Setting
Mature partnerships may develop through differences of belief. The later task is to keep learning from another person's account without requiring a shared philosophy.
At the Nadir
Revising your beliefs takes time spent thinking in private across a lifetime. What you leave in writing may help others understand the questions behind your conclusions.
Scheat in Paran with Saturn
Rising
When an early restriction prompts you to question a rule, independent thinking has a specific problem to address. Learning a subject thoroughly gives you a way to question its rules with precision.
Culminating
An unfashionable problem still calls for sustained work when you reach professional maturity. Responsibility includes showing where your explanation holds and where further work is needed.
Setting
Experience allows a more selective commitment to difficult ideas. Later collaborators may value the questions you kept working on after their first excitement had passed.
At the Nadir
A familiar subject gives you something to return to in private as other circumstances change. In old age, revisiting that work may clarify which restrictions helped and which narrowed the inquiry.
Scheat in Paran with Ascendant
Rising
Visible independence colours your approach from the beginning. Following Brady's angle method, the star rising at birth makes questioning conventional thought an immediate concern in meeting others.
Culminating
Being publicly identified with an independent view becomes central in middle life. The star on the upper angle at birth puts your reasoning where others can encounter it.
Setting
An enduring partner gives you a different account of the world to reckon with in later life. The angular reading concerns how independence works within an enduring partnership.
At the Nadir
Reaching your own conclusions remains a private concern beneath everyday routines. Its importance may be clearest in later years or in the work you leave.
Scheat in Paran with Midheaven
Rising
Choosing how openly to work from your own premises matters as your career begins. The star on an angle at birth gives independent thought a place from the outset.
Culminating
Intellectual independence becomes especially visible in public work. Brady uses Einstein's culminating star as an example; this angle gives the theme prominence at the height of life.
Setting
Professional partners give you an occasion to reconsider a settled approach in later life. Your contribution may involve making room for questions that earlier responsibilities left unanswered.
At the Nadir
Work undertaken without an audience may outlast the career through which people knew you. The nadir places the emphasis on private foundations and eventual remembrance.
Star Connections
A malefic with the Moon at Sirius
Robson specifies a malefic conjunct Scheat while the Moon is conjunct Sirius. His delineation names death involving fiery cutting weapons or beasts, an extreme outcome to weigh against the whole chart rather than predict. The working reading is heightened attention to conflict and exposure to danger where the named planetary conditions coincide. Consider the actual circumstances in which a confrontation can escalate and the choices available before it does.
A malefic with the Moon at Vega
With a malefic conjunct Scheat, Robson substitutes the Moon conjunct Vega, which he calls Wega, for the Moon at Sirius and gives a violent-death warning. The severity of that warning needs weighing against the whole chart. The combined contacts direct attention to how a conflict develops. In consultation, examine situations where anger or pressure narrows a person's options and where a decision to withdraw remains possible.
Notable Charts
Johannes Kepler
Mercury rising with Scheat, a paran
Brady includes Kepler's co-rising Mercury among her examples of mental creativity and independent thought. [5]
Isaac Newton
The Sun setting as Scheat culminates, a paran
Brady connects Newton's contact with the foundations of science and numbers, alongside his Markab and Thuban contacts. [5]
Carl Jung
Scheat setting as Venus culminates, a paran
Brady reads Jung's contact as mental creativity applied to human relationships. [5]
Albert Einstein
Scheat culminating at birth
Brady presents Einstein as an example of mental creativity with Scheat on an angle. [5]
Frequently Asked Questions
What degree is Scheat in 2026?
Scheat is at 29°44′ tropical Pisces in 2026 and enters Aries in September 2044. Robson's printed position, 28°15′ Pisces, is for 1920. [2] Use the birth-year position to find a natal conjunction.
What does Scheat conjunct the Sun mean?
A Sun conjunction puts personal commitment behind independent thought, with success weighed against your own ideas. Brady develops intellectual independence and uses Newton's setting Sun with a culminating Scheat as an example. Robson's Sun reading is more adverse, with warnings about success and water. [2] [5] Examine the work you are prepared to pursue on your own judgment.
Why does Scheat have so many warnings about water?
The water connection predates its modern description as a Pisces star. Allen records an astrological danger from water and places Scheat with Markab in the Fore Spout mansion, named for a water-bucket. Robson repeats water warnings through his planetary entries. [1] [2] His literal outcomes belong to his historical account; a natal contact alone cannot establish them.
Are Scheat and Skat the same star?
They are different stars. Scheat is Beta Pegasi in Pegasus; Skat is Delta Aquarii in Aquarius. Allen discusses their names separately, with arm or shoulder names for Scheat and proposed wish or shin-bone derivations for Skat. [1] Check the designation when a list uses a similar spelling.
Why does Brady use the Great Square to read Scheat?
Brady takes the square as a figure of intellect and logic, in contrast to the circle's intuition. She develops Scheat's independent thought from that geometry rather than the adventures of Pegasus. Her Kepler example connects this with Mercury co-rising, an encounter with the world through intellectual work. [5]
What does the name Scheat mean?
The name Scheat comes from Arabic: Al Sā'id, meaning "The Upper Arm, the Shin." Beta Pegasi. The star is known by 2 different cultural names across world traditions.
Sources
- Richard Hinckley Allen, Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning, Dover Publications, Inc., 1899. Used for Scheat and Skat name distinctions; the Great Square and water-related mansion names; Pegasus's birth and adventures with Bellerophon.
- Vivian E. Robson, The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology, American Federation of Astrologers, Inc., 1923. Used for entry 93, planetary readings, the Sirius and Wega conditions and the 1920 longitude.
Text of the 1923 edition; the site quotes a 2017 reprint.
- Claudius Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, translated by Frank Egleston Robbins, 1940. Used for the Mars and Mercury assignment to the bright stars of the Horse in 1.9.
- Hephaistio of Thebes, Apotelesmatics, Book I, translated by Robert Schmidt, The Golden Hind Press, 1994. Used for the Pegasus bright-star nature in the northern constellation discussion.
- Bernadette Brady, Brady's Book of Fixed Stars, Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1998. Used for the Square, independent thought and natal planet and angle examples.
- Marcus Manilius, Astronomica, translated by G. P. Goold, Harvard University Press and William Heinemann Ltd, 1977. Used for Goold's Beta Pegasi identification and the rising Winged Horse in Book V.
- Firmicus Maternus, Ancient Astrology: Theory and Practice, translated by Jean Rhys Bram, Noyes Press, 1975. Used for the Horse's rising degree and constellation reading in VIII.17.3.
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