Caput Algol - The Gorgon's Head. A malefic fixed star, causing one to "lose one's head in the situation", located in Taurus 26°.
Caput Draconis - The Dragon's Head (Moon's North Node).
Caput Algol *
The Gorgon's Head
† Behenian Star
Primitive female sexuality; strangulation, beheading, danger to throat and neck, murder, violence, mass catastrophe; the "Evil One", the Demon Star; passionate; intense; hysterical.
Algol - Caput Algol, a malefic fixed star in the 27th degree of Taurus.
Where the Sun is found to be with Caput Algol if then he is neither aspected by a benevolent planet, or that a benign planet doth govern the eighth house, and the disposer of the temporal light shall be in opposition to Mars, ...
Fixed Stars and approximate degrees: 6 Hamal; 6 Schedir; 13 Menkab; 14 Alamac; 26 Caput Algol or just Algol; 29 Pleiades; 29 Alcyone (commonly thought of as being in Taurus, but is now actually just in Gemini)
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A planet conjoined to Caput Algol, if joined to the Hyleg, was in earlier days deemed to threaten beheading; the modern equivalent is perhaps defeat at the polls.
Hylegiacal Places. v. Principal Places.
Those ruled by the malefics, or wherein the malefics are exalted, viz: Aries, Libra, Scorpio, Capricorn and Aquarius; also applied to parts of Signs in which are any remarkably violent stars, such as Caput Algol in 25° Taurus.
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 See also: Aspects, Signs, Earth, Algol, Fixed
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