It always was known as Aquila by the Latins, and by their poets as Jovis Ales and Jovis Nutrix, the Bird, and the Nurse, of Jove Jovis Armiger and Armiger Ales, the Armor-bearing Bird of Jove in this god’s conflict with the giants while Ganymedes Raptrix and Servans Antinoum are from the old stories that the Eagle carried Ganymede to the heavens and stood in attendance on Jove. Our constellation is supposed to be represented by the bird figured on a Euphratean uranographic stone of about 1200 B.C., and known on the tablets as Idkhu Zamama, the Eagle, the Living Eye. Early representations added an arrow held in the Eagle’s talons and Hevelius included a bow and arrow in his description. In mundane astrology Aquila rules the U.S.A., space exploration, bombs and missiles.Īquila, the Eagle, next to and westward from the Dolphin, is shown flying toward the east and across the Milky Way its southern stars constituting the now discarded Antinous. It has always been associated with the sign Scorpio, and by the Kabalists with the Hebrew letter Vau and the 6th Tarot Trump “The Lovers.” It is said to give great imagination, strong passions, indomitable will, a dominating character, influence over others, clairvoyance, a keen penetrating mind and ability for chemical research. Originally called Vultur Volans or the Flying Grype, Aquila represents the Eagle, thought to be Jupiter himself, that carried Ganymedes to heaven.Īccording to Ptolemy the influence of Aquila is similar to that of Mars and Jupiter. Aquila spans 20 degrees of the Zodiac in the Signs of Capricorn and Aquarius, and contains 11 named fixed stars. Aquila Constellation Aquila Constellation AstrologyĪquila constellation, the Eagle, is a northern constellation north sitting above constellation Sagittarius, between constellation Ophiuchus and constellation Delphinus.
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