The 28 lunar mansions · 3rd of 28
Al-Thurayyā الثريا
The Pleiades, the many little ones. A theme of many small things coming together; trade and exchange.
- Its stars
- the Pleiades, the little cluster also called the Seven Sisters
- Where it lies
- 25°43′ Aries to 8°34′ Taurus, as Baghdad counted it
- How often
- The Moon passes through about every 27⅓ days and stays roughly a day
- Next visit
- Calculating…
Born with the Moon in Al-Thurayyā
You are many-sided. Born under the Pleiades, the cluster of 'many little ones', you collect people, ideas and small pleasures, and you bring them together.
Gifts
Sociability, a good eye for exchange, generosity
Watch for
Spreading yourself across too many things at once
A theme your life returns to. Connection is your recurring theme: trade, friendship, networks. The more you link people and ideas, the more comes back to you.
A night in Al-Thurayyā
The astrologers of Baghdad chose the night for a task by the Moon's mansion. For Al-Thurayyā the old lists say:
Good for
- trading and buying
- travel
Better left for another night
- marriage
- planting trees
A thought for the night I notice the many small blessings that add up in my day.
The readings are modern, drawn from each station's traditional name and meaning. They describe tendencies, not events, and are offered for reflection and fun.
Sources
- Al-Bīrūnī, The Book of Instruction in the Elements of the Art of Astrology (1029), the chapter on the lunar mansions. Translated by R. Ramsay Wright (1934).
- Picatrix (Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm), Book I, chapter 4: the 28 mansions and the works begun in each.
- Ibn Abī l-Rijāl (Haly Abenragel), The Distinguished Book on the Judgements of the Stars, Book VII: elections by the Moon's mansion.
- Star identifications follow Paul Kunitzsch, Untersuchungen zur Sternnomenklatur der Araber (1961), and the usual modern lists.
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