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Posted On: October 23rd 2026, 07:43 pm
7°27′ Virgo · Thuban
Were you born under the forgotten North Star? When the Great Pyramid was built, some four and a half thousand years ago, the still point of the sky was not Polaris but Thuban, a quiet white star in the tail of the Dragon. For about two thousand years the whole sky wheeled around it.
To its people, Thuban brings the vigilance of a guardian who does not tire, a penetrating mind that reads motives and structures others miss, an understanding of what harms and therefore of how harm is undone, and a quiet authority that others take their bearings from. In return it asks them to share the watch, to put their dark sight to work for someone, to handle sharp things with care, and to let the pole move when the sky has turned.
The myth says why. Draco is Ladon, the many-voiced serpent who coiled around the tree of golden apples in the garden of the Hesperides and did not sleep, until Heracles came for the apples. The Arabic name thu'ban means a great serpent, and a Mesopotamian name for the star was Judge of Heaven. Its nature is Saturn with Mars.
Warren Buffett was born with the Sun on Thuban. He bought his first shares at eleven and for some sixty years kept watch over Berkshire Hathaway with a patience that let others steer by him, the sleepless guardian of gold almost to the letter.
Thuban lights up when one of your planets reaches it, at birth or as they travel through your life. The Sun crosses it each year around the 30th of August.
Have you found Thuban in your chart? Tell me in the comments how it has shown up in your life, I would love to read your experience.
Thuban is written out in full in my free Book of Fixed Stars, with the calculator that shows whether it stands in your chart. I share one fixed star at a time here, so follow along and you will meet them one by one.
Comment STARS and I will send you the book ✦
#fixedstars #fixedstarastrology #virgo #natalchart #astrology
Were you born under the forgotten North Star? When the Great Pyramid was built, some four and a half thousand years ago, the still point of the sky was not Polaris but Thuban, a quiet white star in the tail of the Dragon. For about two thousand years the whole sky wheeled around it.
To its people, Thuban brings the vigilance of a guardian who does not tire, a penetrating mind that reads motives and structures others miss, an understanding of what harms and therefore of how harm is undone, and a quiet authority that others take their bearings from. In return it asks them to share the watch, to put their dark sight to work for someone, to handle sharp things with care, and to let the pole move when the sky has turned.
The myth says why. Draco is Ladon, the many-voiced serpent who coiled around the tree of golden apples in the garden of the Hesperides and did not sleep, until Heracles came for the apples. The Arabic name thu'ban means a great serpent, and a Mesopotamian name for the star was Judge of Heaven. Its nature is Saturn with Mars.
Warren Buffett was born with the Sun on Thuban. He bought his first shares at eleven and for some sixty years kept watch over Berkshire Hathaway with a patience that let others steer by him, the sleepless guardian of gold almost to the letter.
Thuban lights up when one of your planets reaches it, at birth or as they travel through your life. The Sun crosses it each year around the 30th of August.
Have you found Thuban in your chart? Tell me in the comments how it has shown up in your life, I would love to read your experience.
Thuban is written out in full in my free Book of Fixed Stars, with the calculator that shows whether it stands in your chart. I share one fixed star at a time here, so follow along and you will meet them one by one.
Comment STARS and I will send you the book ✦
#fixedstars #fixedstarastrology #virgo #natalchart #astrology
Comments (2)
11 days agoa.vertcliff
One more chart with Thuban ✦ Gustave Flaubert was born with Mars on Thuban. He grew up inside the hospital in Rouen where his father was chief surgeon, and he wrote with a precision so clinical that caricaturists drew him dissecting his own heroine. Emma Bovary dies of arsenic, and Flaubert later wrote that while describing her poisoning he had the taste of arsenic so strongly in his mouth that he was ill himself. The Dragon's knowledge of poison, put to work as art.
12 days agoa.vertcliff
The link comes to your messages. If you don't see it, please look in your Message Requests folder. To let it through next time, open Settings → Messages and story replies → Message controls, and allow message requests from people you don't follow ✦
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