Vega
BehenianAlpha Lyrae · Lyra
Last updated
Position (2026)
♑ 15°41′ Capricorn
Magnitude
0.03
Planetary Nature
Venus / Mercury (Robson)
Alvidas: Saturn / Jupiter (Saturn in trine to Jupiter from the earthy signs especially Capricorn and Taurus)
Spectral Type
A0Vvar
Appearance
A pale sapphire-white star in the body of the Lyre, the fifth brightest in the sky and a former pole star
Behenian Correspondences
Gemstone
Chrysolite
Plant
Savory
Read: The 15 Behenian Stars → background on Agrippa's list, the magical tradition, and how each star was historically used.
Name Origin
Language
Arabic
Original Form
Al Nasr al Wāḳi'
Meaning
The Falling (Swooping) Eagle
Alpha Lyrae. From the Arabic Al Nasr al Wāḳi', the Falling or Swooping Eagle. The full name was progressively shortened through transliteration: Wāḳi' to Wega to Vega. Paired in Arabic tradition with Altair (Al Nasr al Ṭā'ir, the Flying Eagle). In East Asian astronomy, Vega is the Weaving Girl (Zhī Nǚ) in the Tanabata legend, separated from the Cowherd (Altair) by the Celestial River (the Milky Way), reunited once a year on the seventh day of the seventh month.
Known As
Orpheus's Lyre has Vega as its bright star. Mercury made the tortoise-shaped instrument and gave it to Orpheus, whose music enchanted animals and rocks before the Lyre found its place in heaven. Vega's theme is the ability to hold an audience through art or speech. Its Venus and Mercury mixture joins taste with the skill to express it. The pleasure of being heard can develop into a wish to command the listener. Admiration matters deeply in this reading, and changing approval can meet with suspicion or an abrupt reply. Its skill can serve an artist or someone intent on deception.
The listener matters as much as the performer in a Vega reading. Holding someone's attention gives you a chance to move them, whether through music or speech. Brady develops the star through Orpheus's musical charisma; the Anonymous of 379 describes eloquence and artistic ability when the bright Lyre rises. [2] [7] Once people are listening, you have to choose what to do with their attention.
You might persuade a room and still struggle to trust the people in it. Robson's Wega is refined and hopeful, yet his planet readings include suspicion and damaged reputations. [1] Read those difficulties as tendencies within the whole chart. Influence depends on how people hear you, and maintaining their trust takes work after the first impression.
Vega by birth year
On 1 January 2026, Vega stood at ♑ 15°41′ Capricorn in the tropical zodiac.
It has been in Capricorn since before the year 1000 and stays there past 2400.
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 | ♑ 13°55′ Capricorn |
| 1910 | ♑ 14°03′ Capricorn |
| 1920 | ♑ 14°12′ Capricorn |
| 1930 | ♑ 14°20′ Capricorn |
| 1940 | ♑ 14°29′ Capricorn |
| 1950 | ♑ 14°37′ Capricorn |
| 1960 | ♑ 14°45′ Capricorn |
| 1970 | ♑ 14°54′ Capricorn |
| 1980 | ♑ 15°02′ Capricorn |
| 1990 | ♑ 15°11′ Capricorn |
| 2000 | ♑ 15°19′ Capricorn |
| 2010 | ♑ 15°28′ Capricorn |
| 2020 | ♑ 15°36′ Capricorn |
| 2030 | ♑ 15°45′ Capricorn |
From latitudes poleward of 51.2° S it never rises, and from latitudes poleward of 51.2° 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).
Orpheus's Lyre needs a listener
Robson tells the Lyre's story from the making of the instrument. Mercury finds a tortoise by the Nile and hears a note when he strikes its dried sinews. He makes a lyre and gives it to Orpheus, whose music enchants animals and rocks. After the Thracian women kill Orpheus, Jupiter puts the lyre in heaven at Apollo and the Muses' request. [1] Orpheus knows how to make listeners stop what they are doing and listen.
Manilius puts the musician at a banquet. His rising Lyre describes music made with strings or breath, and a singer who holds the audience late into the night. He gives the constellation's rising with the twenty-sixth degree of Libra. [8] A small audience is enough for this expression of Vega. You know you have reached the people in the room when they want to stay and hear more.
Influence. According to Ptolemy it is of the nature of Venus and Mercury; and, to Alvidas, of Saturn in trine to Jupiter from the earthy signs especially Capricorn and Taurus. It gives beneficence, ideality, hopefulness, refinement and changeability, and makes its natives grave, sober, outwardly pretentious and usually lascivious.
Ptolemy gives Venus and Mercury to Lyra's stars, and Hephaistio repeats the mixture as Aphrodite and Hermes. [5] [6] Taste needs the skill to express it before another person shares the pleasure. Brady allows creative skill to serve an artist or a criminal, depending on the rest of the chart. [2] Ask how this person wins a room's trust, then what they use it for.
Vega's influence when applause changes
With Sun. Critical, abrupt, reserved, unpopular, fleeting honours, influential position, insincere friends.
With the Sun, your presence gets a response that may differ sharply from how you see yourself. Robson allows an influential position alongside reserve and unstable honors. Brady's Casanova example has Vega culminating as the Sun rises, a paran connecting two angular events. [1] [2] Recognition makes some work easier, but it also makes criticism harder to hear when you have grown used to approval. Robson's fleeting honors belong beside that dependence on the audience.
With Mercury, you might argue effectively while expecting hostility from everyone else. Robson's Mercury account centers on suspicion and frustrated ambition; Brady discusses charismatic oratory in Hitler's chart, where Vega rises as Mercury sets. [1] [2] Persuading people becomes easier than hearing them when every reply feels like a challenge. Leave room for an answer, especially from someone with less influence than you.
For the Moon, Robson combines business success and pension income with trouble through writings or forgery. His Venus description is cold and miserly. [1] With the Moon, pay attention to what you put in writing when your reputation or income depends on it. With Venus, difficulty expressing generosity or affection also makes goodwill hard to receive. Notice when you distrust an offer of kindness before the person has asked for anything in return.
With Mars, Robson gives scientific interests and moral courage, even when opinions are unpopular. Jupiter has financial promise alongside legal trouble. Saturn is original and opinionated, with friction involving reputation and superiors. [1] Mars describes the willingness to pursue an inquiry without much encouragement. With Jupiter, put sound agreements in place before committing money. With Saturn, defending an original position under scrutiny requires more than the force with which you first stated it.
When Vega itself rises at birth, the Anonymous of 379 describes an artistic and eloquent person, often self-taught and esteemed. He makes Jupiter's relation to the rising place favorable for greater renown, while angular Mars can involve legal trouble. [7] A longitude conjunction to the Ascendant differs from Vega actually rising, since the star lies about 62° north of the ecliptic. With an Ascendant contact, begin with how you make yourself understood and attract an audience. At the Midheaven, Brady's Sun example suggests a public role sustained by personal appeal. [2] Once people have noticed you, give them work worth returning for.
The falling bird and Vega's Weaving Sister
The name Vega preserves a bird in the constellation of the Lyre. Allen traces Wega through the Alfonsine Tables to the Arabic swooping eagle. Its partly closed wings distinguish it from Aquila's flying eagle with spread wings. Robson calls it Al Waki, the Falling, and gives the medieval Vultur Cadens, the Falling Grype or Vulture. [3] [1] Allen also records the English Harp-star in Holland's translation of Pliny. [3]
Allen's three-star Weaving Sister, also called the Spinning Damsel, faces the Cow Herdsman across the Milky Way, with variants in China, Korea, and Japan. He identifies the group with Abhijit, an Indian lunar station absent from some lists. [3] A Babylonian night-gods prayer calls Lyra the She-Goat, as discussed in Bowen and Rochberg. [4]
Vega, Alpha Lyrae, remains the bright star of the Lyre while its tropical longitude falls in Capricorn. [1] In 2026 that position is 15°41′ Capricorn. Use the position for the birth year when checking a natal conjunction; Augurine's calculator uses an orb of half a degree.
Why Firmicus puts the Lyre in court
Firmicus puts the rising Lyre in public courts and inquiries. He describes uprightness with miserliness, then gives punitive duties under Saturn and violent punishments when the star sets with adverse planetary conditions. His co-rising degree is the tenth of Capricorn. [9] Crane identifies this Lyra as Wega and discusses its court work. [10] Legal work belongs alongside performance in a Vega reading, with care around the authority a skilled speaker holds.
A professional speaker has responsibilities to the people listening. Firmicus puts that work amid inquiries and punishment; Manilius puts it at a banquet. [9] [8] Read Firmicus's violent outcomes as historical descriptions, with attention to how the person exercises authority today. In court, the audience expects a decision with consequences for someone else.
Wega's vulture and the desire to command
Rules. Chrysolite, succory, and fumitary.
In Magical Influences of Fixed Stars, Robson gives Wega a vulture, hen, or traveler for its image. He says the wearer becomes magnanimous and proud, with command over beasts and devils. [1] These are instructions for a talisman. The attraction includes command as well as the pleasure of being heard. Beside Brady's Orpheus, the person accustomed to holding attention has to allow a listener to disagree or leave. [2]
Vega's tortoise-shell Lyre and the Magpies' Bridge
Mercury found the body of a tortoise cast up by the Nile, and discovered that by striking the sinews after the flesh was consumed a musical note was obtained. He made a lyre of similar shape, having three strings, and gave it to Orpheus, the son of Calliope, who by its music enchanted the beasts, birds and rocks. After Orpheus was slain by the Thracian women, Jupiter placed the lyre in heaven at the request of Apollo and the Muses.
Vega's name preserves the Arabian swooping eagle, whose partly closed wings distinguish it from Aquila's spread-winged eagle. In Allen's drawings, the bird has an upturned head with a lyre in its beak, or bears the instrument on its front. [3]
The Chinese Weaving Sister faces the Cow Herdsman across the Milky Way, with Vega among her three stars. In the Korean version Allen gives, the couple are a prince and his bride, banished to different parts of the sky by an angry father-in-law. Magpies gather from throughout the kingdom to form a bridge on the seventh night of the seventh moon. The couple cross it for their annual meeting. When the day ends, they return to their separate places of exile, and the birds scatter home. [3]
How the authors read Vega
| Source | Nature | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Ptolemy | Venus and Mercury | Ptolemy assigns Venus and Mercury to Lyra's stars. Read the mixture through taste and the skill to express it. [5] |
| Hephaistio | Aphrodite and Hermes | Hephaistio gives Lyra and Cygnus the same planetary pair, using the Greek names for Venus and Mercury. [6] |
| Anonymous of 379 | Venus and Mercury | The Anonymous favors eloquence and artistic ability when the bright Lyre rises. The accompanying planets shape its social success. [7] |
| Robson | Venus and Mercury | Robson's refinement comes with changeability. He also reports Alvidas's alternative, Saturn trine Jupiter from earth signs, especially Capricorn and Taurus. [1] |
| Brady | no planetary mixture given | Brady reads Orpheus's charisma as creative skill whose use depends on the chart. The audience's response is central to her reading. [2] |
| Firmicus | no planetary mixture given | Firmicus gives the rising Lyra duties in public courts. Crane identifies his Lyra as Wega. [9] [10] |
Vega Heliacal Rising
The heliacal question is separate from this star's zodiacal contact with your chart. To see whether Vega was returning to dawn visibility near your birth date and location, use the Vega heliacal rising scan. This page explains conjunctions, parans, mythology, and fixed-star meaning.
Natal Conjunctions
Find your conjunctions →Vega Conjunct Sun
Holding an influential position does not always make you comfortable with attention. Robson pairs influence with reserve and a critical manner, then describes honors that prove temporary and friendships that lack sincerity. The public response here differs from your own assessment of the work. Notice your response when approval changes. A reputation becomes easier to sustain when the work remains open to discussion after the first favorable response.
Vega Conjunct Moon
Your income and reputation depend partly on what people trust you to put in writing. Robson allows business success and pension income alongside losses through writings or forgery. His severe list suggests examining what others can reasonably trust in your dealings. With the Moon involved, uncertainty about that trust may feel particularly personal. Clear accounts and dependable communication can help you accept goodwill without relying entirely on the reassurance of public approval.
Vega Conjunct Mercury
Persuasion becomes difficult to use well when you expect hostility from the listener. Robson's Mercury account includes suspicion and frustrated ambition, with influential enemies and business losses. Brady's broader account of charismatic expression makes the quality of an exchange worth examining. A forceful argument can still leave room for correction. Listen for whether the other person can disagree with you and continue to be treated as a serious participant.
Vega Conjunct Venus
Reserve in affection needs as much attention as the wish to create something beautiful. Robson describes coldness and miserliness with this planet. Difficulty showing warmth may be more noticeable in small acts than in an artistic performance; consider how freely affection or resources are shared. Someone can have exacting taste and struggle to show generosity. A partner learns what you value about them through the ordinary choices you make together.
Vega Conjunct Mars
Pursuing an unpopular line of inquiry takes a particular kind of courage. Robson gives this conjunction scientific interests and moral courage, with favorable gains despite unpopular opinions. Begin with the subject that holds your attention strongly enough to withstand disagreement. The working strength is persistence that remains answerable to what the inquiry finds. You can defend the right to investigate a question while continuing to revise your conclusions.
Vega Conjunct Jupiter
Ambition needs agreements that remain clear after the initial enthusiasm. Robson combines financial promise with losses through legal affairs. His account includes imprisonment. A contemporary reading concerns the obligations accepted while pursuing a larger opportunity. Personal appeal may help you secure an agreement; the work then requires you to honor its terms. Growth is easier to sustain when everyone understands what has been promised.
Vega Conjunct Saturn
An original position receives criticism from people with authority over your work in this reading. Robson describes an opinionated person whose reputation suffers through false accusations and friction with superiors. He finds the latter half of life more favorable. This suggests considering how experience changes the way you defend a position. Clear explanations and consistent work can give your ideas a stronger hearing without requiring you to surrender their distinctive content.
Vega Conjunct Uranus
Robson places abrupt criticism beside strong passions and a reserved manner. Robson gives this combination disappointments and reversals in money, with sorrow at home. When reading Vega's appeal, take those tensions seriously. A compelling presentation may conceal uncertainty about whether others can be trusted. Sudden changes also affect the people sharing your plans. When you explain a revision before acting, the people sharing your plans have a chance to respond while their answer still matters.
Vega Conjunct Neptune
Musical interests and a practical mind coexist in Robson's account. He describes timidity alongside scientific and occult interests, with societies providing a social setting and material success among the possibilities. Expressive skill still asks for practice within that setting. A reserved person may work carefully at an expressive skill and find company through it. The reading favors giving that interest a regular practice and a setting where it can be shared.
Vega Conjunct Pluto
An audience that listens closely still has its own interpretation of what you say. Extend Vega's established concern with persuasion to the pressure Pluto places on what you are unwilling to release. An absorbing subject can support sustained work, while a need to dictate the response can strain relationships. Consider whether the work allows other people their own interpretation. Its depth is easier to explore when disagreement can continue without a contest over loyalty.
Vega Conjunct North Node
An attentive audience gives you a chance to develop how you express an idea. Begin with Vega's concern with expression and the response it receives. You may need opportunities that ask for more than an impressive first encounter, such as a sustained exchange or work shared over time. The reading concerns what happens after people begin listening. Development lies in giving them something specific to consider and accepting a response you did not script.
Vega Conjunct Ascendant
People may notice how well you express yourself when you enter a new setting. The Anonymous of 379 describes the rising Lyre through artistic ability and eloquence, often developed through self-directed learning. A longitude conjunction to the Ascendant differs from Vega actually rising because the star lies far north of the ecliptic. How you make yourself understood is the starting point; the longer question is whether initial attention develops into a relationship with room for mutual trust.
Vega Conjunct Midheaven
An audience has a reason to return when the work continues to reward its attention. Brady's example of Vega culminating as the Sun rises gives charisma a public setting. Applied to the Midheaven, that emphasis concerns reputation and vocation. Consider what an audience receives once your manner or performance has attracted it. A professional role develops through those return visits and through changes you make in response to what people hear or see.
Paran Interpretations
Parans describe what happens when Vega and a planet simultaneously occupy the four angles (rising, culminating, setting, nadir) at a given location.
Vega in Paran with Sun
Rising
With Brady's emphasis on charisma, the early reading concerns how you learn to hold an audience's attention and respond to the people listening.
Culminating
In Brady's Casanova example, Vega culminates as the Sun rises; personal appeal receives public attention, with recognition emphasized in the middle years.
Setting
An audience that knows your work gives later recognition a more sustained basis. The question is which work satisfies you when the response becomes familiar.
At the Nadir
The impression your work leaves becomes clearer after your public role ends. Private motives belong beside the version of you an audience remembers.
Vega in Paran with Moon
Rising
You learn how your feelings sound to other people as a child. Sensitivity to a room's response gives expressive skill an early place to develop.
Culminating
Public response can feel closely connected to emotional security at the height of work. Familiar relationships help you assess the attention with some steadiness.
Setting
A trusted listener gives you room to express a feeling without directing the response as you grow older. That freedom matters to intimacy.
At the Nadir
Familiar relationships allow you to express more than an audience hears in public. Those relationships preserve a fuller account of you than performance alone.
Vega in Paran with Mercury
Rising
Brady reads charismatic speech in Vega rising as Mercury sets. From an early age, persuasive language raises the question of what you ask a listener to accept.
Culminating
Your speaking or writing takes a central place in public standing at the height of work. The argument needs to withstand questions about its substance.
Setting
Conversation can become more reciprocal with experience. Later partnerships may help you develop work by answering it in ways you had not anticipated.
At the Nadir
In writing, your words reach people beyond their first audience. Their later meaning depends on whether the text remains clear without your own explanation.
Vega in Paran with Venus
Rising
Performing for others is an early pleasure in this reading. An encouraging audience helps you develop taste while you learn which choices you enjoy for yourself.
Culminating
Your art reaches a public audience during your busiest professional years. The relationship grows through work that continues to repay people's interest.
Setting
Affection in a lasting partnership asks for more than an appealing manner. Later life can emphasize the pleasure of making or appreciating work together.
At the Nadir
Familiar people keep things you made with their pleasure in mind. Those objects preserve your taste as a lasting part of their lives.
Vega in Paran with Mars
Rising
An uncertain response is part of the early experience of performing under pressure. Your task is to keep directing effort toward the expression itself.
Culminating
A forceful presentation gives difficult work a hearing at your professional height. The audience still needs room to question what you advocate.
Setting
Disagreement in a mature partnership can sharpen expression when both people remain free to answer. Later work may benefit from a less combative delivery.
At the Nadir
You rehearse or pursue an inquiry over time without an audience. The lasting work shows effort largely invisible at its first reception.
Vega in Paran with Jupiter
Rising
An encouraging listener gives a young speaker confidence to address more people. The early task is finding content worthy of the attention received.
Culminating
You address more people and have greater influence in the middle years. Public commitments need to match the work you are prepared to do.
Setting
Teaching can give expressive skill a further purpose later in life. An attentive student benefits from room to develop an interpretation of their own.
At the Nadir
People continue to use ideas you shared with conviction after your active involvement ends. Their later value lies in what people do with them.
Vega in Paran with Saturn
Rising
A reserved first response leaves an early wish to be heard unsatisfied. Practice gives you something to work on while an audience takes time to respond.
Culminating
The discipline behind an accomplished presentation is visible in your work by middle life. Consistency gives an audience a basis for professional respect.
Setting
Experience can make you more selective about the audience you seek. Later work may favor a sustained exchange over repeated introductions to strangers.
At the Nadir
Repeated practice is the quiet foundation of expressive work that lasts. Technical care preserves what you make for use beyond a single performance.
Vega in Paran with Ascendant
Rising
Your manner of expression can attract attention from the outset. Brady treats a star actually rising at birth as significant throughout life.
Culminating
An audience encounters your manner of expression at the prime of life. In Brady's angular timing, culmination emphasizes these years.
Setting
You become aware of how you persuade through relationships later in life. The exchange depends on leaving another person room to answer in their own terms.
At the Nadir
What you express with familiar people matters even when it receives little public attention. This private life helps shape how you are remembered.
Vega in Paran with Midheaven
Rising
Addressing an audience for the first time gives you a possible vocation to explore. Expressive skill has an early public outlet as your work develops.
Culminating
Personal appeal has a place in your standing at your most visible professional stage. Reputation depends on how people respond to the expression itself.
Setting
Working with another person may change how your public contribution is understood. Later collaborations can give accomplished expression a different setting and audience.
At the Nadir
A career is remembered through work that remains available when performances end. Private practice gives that work substance beyond its original reception.
Star Connections
Alpheratz malefic with the Moon at Vega
Robson's Alpheratz entry specifies a malefic with Alpheratz while the Moon is with Vega, and gives a violent outcome. His 1923 fatalism needs weighing against the whole chart. For consultation, use the compound to examine conflict around trust and the exercise of influence. When one person persuades easily, the other may struggle to disagree. Before a consequential decision, both need room to state their concerns in their own words.
Sun and Mars with Procyon's Moon
Robson specifies the Sun and Mars together with Vega above the earth while the Moon is with Procyon. He attaches a fatal dog-bite warning to this compound in his 1923 account. Weigh that as his historical delineation; the practical reading concerns forceful action under emotional pressure. Enthusiasm for a proposal may quickly turn into a demand for agreement. There is more room for sound judgment when urgency allows someone to question the proposed action.
Moon at Vega with Scheat's malefic
The Moon with Vega while a malefic is with Scheat is Robson's specified condition. His entry gives a violent death warning to weigh as a historical delineation rather than a personal forecast. A working reading can examine how a need for reassurance interacts with conflict. An agreeable manner leaves the disagreement unresolved when it takes the place of discussion. Emotional security is better served by an arrangement both people understand and willingly accept.
Notable Charts
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Vega rising at birth
Brady links Vega rising at Mozart's birth with the musical appeal of Orpheus. She uses his work to illustrate the star's capacity to hold a listener's attention. [2]
Casanova
Vega culminating as the Sun rises, a paran
Brady uses Casanova to illustrate Vega's personal allure beyond musical performance. [2]
Frequently Asked Questions
What does Vega conjunct the Sun mean?
Public influence sits alongside sensitivity to recognition. Robson combines an influential position with a critical manner and fleeting honors. [1] Changing approval tests whether you still trust the work when people respond less warmly than they once did.
Why does the musical Lyre also describe court work?
Persuading an audience belongs to both settings. Manilius describes a banquet musician; Firmicus gives the rising Lyre duties in public courts, and Crane identifies it as Wega. [8] [9] [10] In court, the speaker's influence affects the people whose affairs are being decided.
Does Vega's charisma guarantee goodwill?
Charisma alone says little about intention. Brady allows creative skill to serve an artist or a criminal, while Robson gives refinement alongside suspicion and difficulty with reputation. [2] [1] Look at what the person does with an audience's trust and how they respond when someone disagrees.
What does the name Vega mean?
The name Vega comes from Arabic: Al Nasr al Wāḳi', meaning "The Falling (Swooping) Eagle." Alpha Lyrae. The star is known by 7 different cultural names across world traditions.
Sources
- Vivian E. Robson, The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology, American Federation of Astrologers, Inc., 1923. Used for Wega entry 107, the Lyre story, the 1920 longitude, and Magical Influences of Fixed Stars.
Text of the 1923 edition; the site quotes a 2017 reprint.
- Bernadette Brady, Brady's Book of Fixed Stars, Samuel Weiser, Inc., 1998. Used for the Orpheus reading and its natal paran examples.
- Richard Hinckley Allen, Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning, Dover Publications, Inc., 1899. Used for Wega's bird name, Weaving Sister, and Abhijit group.
- Alan C. Bowen and Francesca Rochberg (editors), Hellenistic Astronomy: The Science in Its Contexts, Koninklijke Brill NV, 2020. Used for Lyra as the She-Goat in a Babylonian night-gods prayer.
- Claudius Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, translated by Frank Egleston Robbins, 1940. Used for the Venus and Mercury nature of Lyra's stars in Book 1.9.
- Hephaistio of Thebes, Apotelesmatics, Book I, translated by Robert Schmidt, The Golden Hind Press, 1994. Used for the Aphrodite and Hermes grouping of Lyra and Cygnus.
- Anonymous of 379, The Treatise on the Bright Fixed Stars, translated by Robert Schmidt, The Golden Hind Press, 1993. Used for the bright Lyre's birth-hour reading and planetary conditions.
- Marcus Manilius, Astronomica, translated by G. P. Goold, Harvard University Press and William Heinemann Ltd, 1977. Used for the rising Lyre's musical account in Book V.
- Firmicus Maternus, Ancient Astrology: Theory and Practice, translated by Jean Rhys Bram, Noyes Press, 1975. Used for Lyra's court duties and planetary conditions in Book VIII.15.3.
- Joseph Crane, Astrological Roots: The Hellenistic Legacy, 2014. Used for the identification of Firmicus's Lyra with Wega.
Lunar Mansions
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