The Fixed Stars

Pollux

Beta Geminorum

One of the Dioscuri, the immortal twin and boxer. It stands at about 23° Cancer (tropical).

The head of the immortal twin, the boxer.

The immortal of the twins, the boxer, who begged to share his deathlessness with his mortal brother. Robson gives it the nature of Mars: a spirited, brave and audacious character, but rash and given to violence, and in the old books tied to cruelty and poisons. A steady orange star, brighter than Castor though lettered Beta. With Castor it forms the mansion Al Dhira and the nakshatra Punarvasu, whose junction star it is.