The Astrology of Space - Matrix Software

The Astrology of Space
There is a second major grouping of stars in the
upper right-hand corner of the diagram. These stars,
which are bright and cool are called red giants.
Betelgeuse, Antares, and Aldebaran are red giants. A
third group of stars, white-dwarfs, can be found in the
lower left-hand corner, These stars are cool and dim.
The various life stages of a star plotted on the
Hertzsprung-Russell diagram is shown above. The
reason almost all stars can be found only in one of the
three major groups indicated above is that these
represent the life stages of longest duration: main
sequence or hydrogen burning, red giant or helium
burning, and cooling-off white-dwarf stage. The
transition between these stages is relatively rapid and
we have fewer examples available of stars in these
transitions, although all stars must pass through them.
It would be similar to plotting the human lifeline.
Those times when we are in the greatest change tend
to be of short duration, but they are crucial.
In attempting to understand and interpret stars in
natal astrology, it can be a great help to refer the star
to this diagram. Is it a young, brought, hot star or an
old, dim, cool star? Where in the stellar life sequence
does a particular star fit?
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