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Larawag at 15°19′ Sagittarius has an orb of 2°10′
Scorpius Constellation [Stellarium]
The Sun joins Larawag on December 7
Fixed star Larawag, Epsilon Scorpii, is a 2nd-magnitude single star located on the body (or the base of the tail) of the Scorpion, Constellation Scorpius.
Magnitude (suspected variable) 2.30 (2.24 – 2.35), spectral type K1 III, color orange. [1]
Epsilon Scorpii (ε Sco) is officially named Larawag, meaning “signal watcher.” It is an Australian Aboriginal name from the Wardaman people of the Northern Territory.
Scorpius features prominently in Wardaman traditions, which inform the procedures of initiation ceremonies. Merrerrebena is the wife of the Sky Boss, Nardi. She mandates ceremonial law, which is embodied in the red star Antares (Alpha Scorpii). Each star in the body of Scorpius represents a different person involved in the ceremony. Larawag is the signal watcher, noting when only legitimate participants are present and in view of the ceremony. He gives the “All clear” signal, allowing the secret part of the ceremony to continue. [2]
ε Sco is sometimes called Wei. The Chinese asterism Wěi, “Tail,” consisted of ε Sco and twelve other stars in the Tail of the Scorpion. ε Sco has three traditional Chinese names: Wěisuèr, “2nd star of Tail,” Wěisuxīdìyīxīng, “1st western star of Tail,” and Jiǔqí, “Banner of a wine shop.” [3]
Larawag Astrology
Fixed star Larawag has a spectral type of K1, indicating a planetary of Mars.
SPECTRAL CLASS K: These orange-red stars impart to its natives the drive to succeed, success, activity, power, calamities, notoriety, violence, self-destruction, brute force, bad morals, demonic power, anxiety, tragedies, boldness, shamelessness, daring, many dangers. Negatively, impatience, irritability, hostility, excessive drive, overly ambitious nature, subject to self-destruction and violence. [4]
MARS: Violent death, ultimate ruin by folly or pride. If rising, wealth, power, courage, generosity, ingenuity, rise to authority, martial success, subject to cuts, wounds, accidents, sores and injuries to the face, pains in the head and fevers. If culminating, martial eminence, success in trade and in occupations of a Mars nature. If afflicting Mercury, deafness. [5]
In the 19th part of Scorpio there is likewise a clear star (ε Sco). Therefore if the Moon is well placed, [and] if it is in that part of the horoscope (conjunct AC), he will be powerful. But if Jupiter is conjoined with a prosperous radiation, he will be close to the king, possessing divine honors, excellent, good but negligent. Death will come to him from the king’s indignation. [6]
Constellation Scorpius
Scorpio (Sco) was the constellation of the dreaded symbol of darkness in the region of the Euphrates. Comets in this region of the sky were said to portend plagues of “reptiles” (read as locusts or other insects harmful to agriculture). In Classical Scientific Astrology, the fruitful nature of Scorpio was mentioned. This attribute also applies to the constellation. The constellation of the Scorpion has been considered unlucky from earliest antiquity. [7]
Epsilon Scorpii, Larawag [star-facts.com]
Larawag Conjunctions
Ascendant conjunct Larawag: Wealth, power, courage, generosity, ingenuity, rise to authority, martial success, subject to cuts, wounds, accidents, sores and injuries to the face, pains in the head and fevers. [5]
Alan Blumlein 0°00′, Amos Milburn 0°00′ (and POF), Paula Yates 0°07′, Marion March 0°08′ (and Moon), Bob Marley 0°08′, Rosemarie Nitribitt 0°09′, Linda Tripp 0°10′, Benjamin Creme 0°12′ (and Sun), Darrell Glenn 0°18′ (and Sun, Mercury), Igot Bogdanov 0°18′, Jean-Paul Sartre 0°20′, Edith von Coler 0°20′, Richard Kleindienst 0°21′, William Rehnquist 0°22′ (and Jupiter), Reverend Robert Taylor 0°25′, Gerard Sekoto 0°28′, Coccinelle 0°31′, Elizabeth Jagger 0°32′ (and Uranus), Gustavus Adolphus 0°33′, Bess Lomax Hawes 0°33′, Marinus van der Lubbe 0°34′, Athol Rusden 0°36′, Dick Thornburgh 0°37′, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 0°37′, Victor Emmanuel II 0°40′, Arsenio Hall 0°41′ (and N. Node), Samuel Taylor Coleridge 0°42′, Gerard Piqué 0°46′, Ann Wedgeworth 0°51′, Brigitte Bardot 0°57′, Sylvia Sidney 0°58′, Philippe Pétain 1°02′, Leonardo da Vinci 1°03′, Michael Fassbender 1°06′ (and Neptune), Dack Rambo 1°06′, Elizabeth Taylor 1°07′, Spiro Agnew 1°08′ (and N. Node), Cindy Sherman 1°08′, Auguste Escoffier 1°09′, Rosalía 1°12′, Frances Power Cobbe 1°14′ (and Sun), Kim Kardashian 1°19′, Tom Conti 1°23′, Brigitte Lahaie 1°25′, Colin Prescot 1°35′, Angela Merkel 1°47′.
Ascendant conjunct Larawag, well aspected to Moon: Will be powerful. [6]
Amos Milburn, Paula Yates, Marion March, Edith von Coler, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ann Wedgeworth, Elizabeth Taylor, Auguste Escoffier, Angela Merkel.
Ascendant conjunct Larawag, well aspected to Jupiter: Will be close to the king, possessing divine honors, excellent, good but negligent. Death will come to him from the king’s indignation. [6]
Sylvia Sidney, Coccinelle, Elizabeth Taylor.
Midheaven conjunct Larawag: Martial eminence, success in trade and in occupations of a Mars nature. [5]
Part of Fortune conjunct Larawag: Amos Milburn 0°39′ (and AC).
Sun conjunct Larawag: Darrell Glenn 0°04′ (and Mercury, AC), E. H. Southern 0°33′, Frances Power Cobbe 1°10′ (and AC), Benjamin Creme 1°48′ (and AC).
Moon conjunct Larawag: Marion March 1°49′ (and Moon).
Mercury conjunct Larawag: Darrell Glenn 1°27′ (and Sun, AC).
Jupiter conjunct Larawag: William Rehnquist 0°10′ (and AC).
Uranus conjunct Larawag: Elizabeth Jagger 1°39′ (and AC).
Neptune conjunct Larawag: Michael Fassbender 1°03′ (and AC).
North Node conjunct Larawag: Arsenio Hall 0°08′ (and AC), Spiro Agnew 0°57′ (and AC).
References
- Larawag (Epsilon Scorpii): Star Facts
- The stories behind Aboriginal star names now recognised by the world’s astronomical body, 2018, theconversation.com
- Scorpius in Chinese astronomy – Wikipedia
- The Power of the Fixed Stars, Joseph E. Rigor, 1979. p.246.
- Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology, Vivian E. Robson, 1923, p.100.
- Maternus, Julius Firmicus, Mathesis, 336 AD, viii 31.6.
- Fixed Stars and Judicial Astrology, George Noonan, 1990, p.47-49.
