Found in the heart of the Lion (Leo), Regulus is associated with themes of leadership, success, and royal qualities.
The traditional name Regulus is Latin for ‘prince‘ or ‘little king.’ In Arabic, it is قلب الأسد (Qalb al-Asad, ‘the heart of the lion‘), the same as the Latin Cor Leōnis and Greek Kardia Leontos. In Chinese, it is 轩辕十四, the Fourteenth Star of Xuanyuan, the Yellow Emperor. In Babylonian, it was Sharru, ‘the King,‘ and LUGAL, ‘the star that stands in the breast of the Lion: the King.’ In Persian, it was Miyan, ‘the Centre,‘ andPersian monarchy’s Venant, one of ththe Persian monarchy, where in 3,000 BC, as the Watcher of the North, it marked the summer solstice. Symbolically the Crushing Foot, Regulus is associated with the healing Archangel Raphael, one of the four Archangel stars, characterized as the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse (Revelations 6) and Chariot Horses in the Book of Zechariah (The White went North).
REGULUS. α Lonis. A trip triple star is situated on the Lion’s bodyrine, situated on the body of the Lion. From Regulus, a Little King, and often called Cor Leonis, the Lion’s Heart, and symbolically the Crushing Foot. It was one of the four Royal Stars of the Persians in 3,000 B.C., when, as Watcher of the North, it marked the summer solstice. According to Ptolemy, it is of the nature of Mars and Jupiter, but most later authors liken it to Mars only, while Alvidas states that it is similar to the Sun in good aspect to Uranus. It gives violence, destructiveness, military honor of short duration, with ultimate failure, imprisonment, violent death, success, high and lofty ideals and strength of spirit, and makes its natives magnanimous, grandly liberal, generous, ambitious, fond of power, desirous of command, high-spirited and independent. Regulus was one of the fifteen Behenian Fixed Stars, associated with granite, mugwort, celandine, mastic and the kabbalistic symbol
. Its image is a lion, cat, or an honorable person seated in a chair. It makes the wearer temperate, gives favor and appeases wrath.
“Of the stars in the constellation of the heavenly lion, Regulus is the brightest, this name having been given by Copernicus who believed that its brilliant white and blue light ruled the affairs of heaven as well as that of men. In India Regulus was called Magha, the Mighty, while in Persia the name Mrjan, the Centre, was assigned and the Turanians called it Masu, the Hero. It was said in the days of Nineveh, "If the star of the great lion is gloomy, the heart of the people will not rejoice." Regulus marks the heart of the lion and since Leo is the house of the sun, it is considered to rule the human heart. Together with Fomalhaut, which rests at the feet of Aquarius, Aldebaran, the Eye of Taurus, and Antares in the constellation of Scorpio, Regulus forms one of the four celestial cardinal points. It is one of the guardians of heaven which are said to act of themselves.”