Zosma
Delta Leonis · Leo
Position (2026)
♍ 11°41' Virgo
Magnitude
2.56
Planetary Nature
Saturn / Venus (robson)
Spectral Type
A4V
Appearance
A white star on the back of the Lion, part of a triple system with pale yellow, blue, and violet components
Name Origin
Language
Greek
Original Form
Ζῶσμα (Zōsma)
Meaning
The Girdle, or The Loincloth
Delta Leonis. From the Greek Zōsma, a girdle or loincloth, describing the star's position on the Lion's hip. Also known by the Arabic name Ḍuhr al-Asad (the Back of the Lion). Sometimes written as Zozma or Zosca.
Known As
Zosma in Astrology
Zosma, on the back of Leo the Lion, carries Saturn-Venus energy that bestows a combination of melancholy sensitivity and the experience of suffering that builds character. It grants you awareness of life's burdens and a refined empathy born from personal difficulty. Strength emerges through the dignified bearing of sorrow.
Mythology & History
Zosma, also known as Delta Leonis, takes its name from the Greek zosma, meaning 'girdle' or 'loincloth,' describing its position on the hip or back of the lion. In traditional astrology, Zosma has a reputation for suffering and victimization, as Ptolemy assigned it a Saturn-Venus nature. The star's association with the vulnerable flank of the lion, rather than its regal head or powerful chest, gives it a quality of exposure: the part of the predator that is itself vulnerable to attack from behind.
Leo Context
Zosma sits on the back or hip of Leo the Lion, away from the more celebrated stars Regulus at the heart and Denebola at the tail. Leo is one of the most ancient zodiacal constellations, associated with the Nemean Lion whose impervious hide could not be pierced by any weapon. Zosma's position on the haunch represents the area between the lion's offensive power and its defensive retreat, a transitional zone that in astrological tradition is associated with vulnerability, the need for self-protection, and the experience of suffering that builds compassion.
Learn more about Leo and its stars.
Natal Conjunctions
Find your conjunctions →Zosma Conjunct Sun
Zosma conjunct the Sun produces a personality shaped by vulnerability and the transformation of suffering into compassion. You possess an acute sensitivity to pain, both your own and others', and your identity is defined by the choice to use that sensitivity for healing rather than self-protection.
Zosma Conjunct Moon
Zosma conjunct the Moon creates emotional instincts of exceptional empathic sensitivity and vulnerability. Your feelings absorb others' suffering with an openness that can be both a gift and a burden, and emotional security comes through learning to hold pain without being destroyed by it.
Zosma Conjunct Mercury
Zosma conjunct Mercury gives a mind sensitized to suffering and the capacity for articulating pain with therapeutic precision. You communicate with an empathic quality that names what hurts in ways that begin the healing process.
Zosma Conjunct Venus
Zosma conjunct Venus brings vulnerable, empathically sensitive beauty to love and creative expression. You create art that acknowledges suffering and transforms it into beauty, and relationships carry the depth of shared vulnerability.
Zosma Conjunct Mars
Zosma conjunct Mars channels assertive energy into the protection of the vulnerable and the courageous exposure of one's own wounds. You fight through willingness to be seen in your vulnerability rather than through armored aggression.
Zosma Conjunct Jupiter
Zosma conjunct Jupiter expands empathic sensitivity into broad, compassionate philosophical understanding of suffering. You develop wisdom capacious enough to hold collective pain without being overwhelmed.
Zosma Conjunct Saturn
Zosma conjunct Saturn disciplines vulnerability into structured, sustained compassionate service. You learn to create boundaries that protect without closing off, and your authority comes from demonstrated capacity to work with suffering over decades.
Zosma Conjunct Uranus
Zosma conjunct Uranus brings unexpected vulnerability and surprising encounters with suffering that force rapid empathic growth. You discover compassion through shocks that bypass your defenses.
Zosma Conjunct Neptune
Zosma conjunct Neptune heightens empathic sensitivity to its most transparent, almost selflessly compassionate expression. You feel others' pain as your own and possess a gift for healing through pure empathic presence.
Zosma Conjunct Pluto
Zosma conjunct Pluto transforms vulnerability into encounters with the deepest suffering and the most profound healing. You are drawn to pain that others cannot face and possess the intensity to facilitate healing at transformative depths.
Zosma Conjunct North Node
Zosma conjunct the North Node orients destiny toward developing the empathic capacity to transform personal vulnerability into compassionate service.
Zosma Conjunct Ascendant
Zosma on the Ascendant gives a sensitive, visibly empathic presence that others approach when suffering. You project a quality of compassionate openness that invites trust and vulnerability from those around you.
Zosma Conjunct Midheaven
Zosma on the Midheaven builds a career through empathic, compassionate professional service. Recognition comes through your demonstrated capacity to work with vulnerability and suffering in ways that heal.
Paran Interpretations
Parans describe what happens when Zosma and a planet simultaneously occupy the four angles (rising, culminating, setting, nadir) at a given location.
Zosma in Paran with Sun
Rising
Zosma rising with the Sun marks someone who enters life with acute empathic sensitivity and early encounters with vulnerability.
Culminating
Zosma culminating with the Sun places compassionate, empathically sensitive leadership at the peak of public achievement.
Setting
Zosma setting with the Sun suggests a legacy of healing through vulnerability and compassion honored in later life.
At the Nadir
Zosma at the nadir with the Sun reveals deeply private empathic sensitivity that silently shapes all outward compassion.
Zosma in Paran with Moon
Rising
Zosma rising with the Moon instills early emotional vulnerability and profound empathic sensitivity to others' pain.
Culminating
Zosma culminating with the Moon brings compassionate emotional sensitivity to its most publicly visible healing expression.
Setting
Zosma setting with the Moon indicates empathic emotional depth that grows more therapeutically effective with experience.
At the Nadir
Zosma at the nadir with the Moon conceals profound emotional empathic sensitivity beneath a composed, caring exterior.
Zosma in Paran with Mercury
Rising
Zosma rising with Mercury bestows early sensitivity to others' suffering and a talent for articulating pain therapeutically.
Culminating
Zosma culminating with Mercury elevates compassionate, empathically sensitive communication to professional distinction.
Setting
Zosma setting with Mercury suggests a mind that grows more precisely compassionate and therapeutically articulate with age.
At the Nadir
Zosma at the nadir with Mercury reveals hidden empathic analytical depth beneath visible compassionate communication.
Zosma in Paran with Venus
Rising
Zosma rising with Venus shapes early love with vulnerable beauty and the transformative depth of shared suffering.
Culminating
Zosma culminating with Venus brings recognition for art that transforms suffering into beauty with empathic depth.
Setting
Zosma setting with Venus suggests creative expression that grows more vulnerably beautiful and compassionately deep with time.
At the Nadir
Zosma at the nadir with Venus conceals a private empathic sensitivity to beauty and suffering beneath a caring exterior.
Zosma in Paran with Mars
Rising
Zosma rising with Mars channels early energy into the courageous protection of the vulnerable.
Culminating
Zosma culminating with Mars places empathically motivated courage at the apex of professional achievement.
Setting
Zosma setting with Mars indicates protective courage for the vulnerable that grows more effective with maturity.
At the Nadir
Zosma at the nadir with Mars conceals reserves of empathically driven protective energy that surface for the suffering.
Zosma in Paran with Jupiter
Rising
Zosma rising with Jupiter expands early empathic sensitivity into broad, philosophically compassionate understanding.
Culminating
Zosma culminating with Jupiter brings peak achievement through expansive, empathically informed compassionate leadership.
Setting
Zosma setting with Jupiter indicates growing scope for compassionate work and expanding empathic influence in later years.
At the Nadir
Zosma at the nadir with Jupiter reveals vast inner compassion and philosophical understanding of suffering that fuel all service.
Zosma in Paran with Saturn
Rising
Zosma rising with Saturn demands early discipline in developing structured compassionate service that sustains without burning out.
Culminating
Zosma culminating with Saturn achieves lasting authority through decades of disciplined, compassionately sustained healing work.
Setting
Zosma setting with Saturn builds an enduring legacy of structured compassionate service and empathic care.
At the Nadir
Zosma at the nadir with Saturn establishes inner reserves of disciplined compassion that sustain a lifetime of healing.
Zosma in Paran with Ascendant
Rising
Zosma rising with the Ascendant stamps the personality with visible empathic sensitivity and compassionate openness.
Culminating
Zosma culminating with the Ascendant projects empathic, healing presence onto the broadest possible stage.
Setting
Zosma setting with the Ascendant draws others who sense your compassionate vulnerability and trust it.
At the Nadir
Zosma at the nadir with the Ascendant grounds identity in deeply private empathic sensitivity and compassionate depth.
Zosma in Paran with Midheaven
Rising
Zosma rising with the Midheaven launches a career oriented toward compassionate service and empathic healing work.
Culminating
Zosma culminating with the Midheaven represents peak career achievement through empathically sensitive, compassionate leadership.
Setting
Zosma setting with the Midheaven indicates a career legacy of healing through vulnerability valued long after.
At the Nadir
Zosma at the nadir with the Midheaven builds career success on hidden foundations of empathic discipline and compassion.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does the name Zosma mean?
The name Zosma comes from Greek: Ζῶσμα (Zōsma), meaning "The Girdle, or The Loincloth." Delta Leonis. The star is known by 3 different cultural names across world traditions.
Lunar Mansions
Zosma serves as the determinant star for these 2 lunar mansions across different traditions.
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