Fixed Stars Calculator — Stars Near Your Chart Points

Fixed stars stay nearly fixed relative to each other, unlike the planets. Ptolemy listed them in the Almagest. This tool finds listed bright stars near your birth planets and four key points.

A star close to a chart point forms a contact (conjunction). The table shows the distance and allowed gap in degrees. A star can contact more than one point.

Persian tradition names four: Aldebaran east, Regulus north, Antares west and Fomalhaut south. Classical astrology links their close contacts to public attention. Gold badges mark them in the table.

They are fifteen stars used in an older tradition of stones, plants and talismans. Cornelius Agrippa described them in Three Books of Occult Philosophy (1533). This tool uses Robson's star qualities, without a separate Behenian result.

Vivian Robson's Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology (1923) gathers earlier star readings. Each displayed star reading includes its sources. We show no reading without a source.

They stay nearly fixed relative to each other. The Western zodiac's starting point shifts roughly one degree every 72 years (precession). This tool adjusts star positions to your birth date. Your birth chart's contacts stay fixed.