By Agent EI - Andrew Smith

Tags: astrology, creativity, fixed stars, sirius, spiritual development

SIRIUS

Tropical 14° Cancer
Sidereal 20° Gemini

Behind the luminosity of our yellow star, an invisible power emanates, its pulsating tone felt not heard, as vibrational wave after wave throbs, spinning out from Clotho’s wheel a matrix of life and energy in a silent symphony that shapes the destiny of our world. This unseen hand breathes an indistinguishable radiance into the solar system, infusing every beam of sunlight with a deeper understanding of creation, for those whose senses have awakened.

Amplifying the ethereal body of whatever it is attuned to, this rainbow twinkling ‘being’, is a celestial pharos, guiding those who seek to a heightened state of awareness, eclipsing the ego and allowing the Pure White to burn through the ego concerns of that which it streams into. Its unseen hand breathes life into our Yang light and it offers it gateway to spiritual growth and enlightenment and is a path beyond this physical realm back to the gOd realm, and to immortality.

Embodying the divine virtues of steadfast consistency and watchful guardianship, the promise of protection is etched into its sonorous timbre, as its unwavering pure and innocent light offers the selfless love and devotion that has embodied in humanity’s greatest friend – the dog!

The ‘Shining One’, Sirius, is easily visible in the Northern Hemispheric winter nights. It is the brightest star in our heavens and seventh brightest ‘planet’ in our solar system after the Sun, Moon, Venus, Jupiter, Mars and Mercury (it is brighter than Saturn), Sirius has been long known to humanity and has a rich and deep history, especially within Egyptian lore.

Etymology

Sirius, or Seirios is derived from Greek and means glowing or scorching, though it is believed the name may have travelled from Egypt, where the star was possibly known as Sothis. In Sanskrit, it is called Surya, the Shining One. To the Scandinavians, it was Lokabrenna, the burning caused by Loki. In ancient Persia, it was Tishtrya, the rain-bringer. The Chinese knew it as Tianlang, the Celestial Wolf. And in Arabic, it is Al Shi’ra, or Surah, simply, The Star.

Glyph

The first glyph is the Blue Rose’s reflection on Sirius. We explored the idea of placing a crescent facing inward, into the cross of matter above the Midheaven - an image to suggest the soul’s descent into incarnation. In the end, we chose instead the Sun: a circle with a central point, placed behind the cross of matter. It speaks to the deeper mystery - the Sun behind the Sun.

The second glyph is Egyptian in origin: the obelisk symbolises Osiris, the crescent Isis, and the star Horus. The third is drawn from the Dogon tradition. The fourth belongs to the Behenian lineage, depicting a hound beside a young girl.

Constellation

It is brightest star within the constellation of Canis Major, the Dog, located just to the South East of the prominent constellation Orion. The stretch of the firmament between Sirius and Antares was known to The First Nation of North America as the Path of the Soul, as many of the stars within this band of space are attributed to the breadbasket of our collective sOul’s – many of whom are said to have originated from this region of the galaxy. Together with Procyon and Betelgeuse, Sirius forms one of the three vertices of the Winter Triangle, as seen from the Northern Hemisphere.

Interestingly, the orbital rotation of Sirius A and B (Sirius is a two star system, known in antiquity before the use of telescopes) is quite eccentric as they orbit around each other every 49.98 years (akin to the Chiron sidereal cycle) and their last alignment was in 1993-94, a time of massive awakening of consciousness.

Observational History

As the brightest ‘star’ in the night sky, Sirius appears in some of the earliest known astronomical records. Its slight displacement from the ecliptic grants it a remarkably regular heliacal rising, with a cycle of almost precisely 365.25 days - keeping it in near-perfect alignment with the solar year. In ancient Egypt, its rising was observed from Cairo on 19th July (Julian calendar), just preceding the annual inundation of the Nile.

Given the flood’s own unpredictability, the consistent return of Sirius held great importance. The Egyptian civil calendar was reportedly established to mark its New Year—Mesori—with the star’s appearance. However, as the calendar lacked leap years, this alignment held for only four years before gradually drifting backward through the months.

Nonetheless, the Egyptians continued to track Sirius’s annual return with great care. This long-standing observation may have led to their recognition of the 1,460-year Sothic cycle and influenced the later development of both the Julian and Alexandrian calendars.

The ancient Greeks observed that the visible appearance of Sirius heralded the onset of the hot, dry summer, and believed it brought with it a host of unsettling influences. They feared it caused plants to wither, men to grow weak, and women to become inflamed with desire. Owing to its brilliance, Sirius would have appeared to shimmer and flicker more intensely during the turbulent weather of early summer—an effect which, to Greek eyes, suggested that the star was emitting powerful, disruptive emanations. Those who fell under its influence were said to be star-struck.

Sirius was often described in ancient literature as ‘burning’ or ‘flaming’. Its reappearance ahead of the Sun in mid to late summer gave rise to the term ‘the dog days’ - a season long associated with heat, tension, and divine influence. On the island of Ceos in the Aegean Sea, offerings were made to Sirius and Zeus in hopes of summoning cooling breezes. The people would watch for the star’s return in summer skies- if it rose clear and bright, it was taken as an omen of good fortune; if veiled in mist or dimmed, it was said to foreshadow pestilence. Coins from the island, dating to the 3rd century BC, bear images of dogs or radiant stars, a testament to the reverence Sirius inspired.

The Romans, too, observed its movements. Around April 25^th, they marked the heliacal setting of Sirius with a ritual sacrifice to the goddess Robigo: a dog, along with incense, wine, and a sheep, were offered to protect the wheat from rust, which they believed might be brought on by the star’s potent emanations.

Ptolemy of Alexandria, in Books VII and VIII of his Almagest, mapped the heavens and used Sirius to mark the globe’s central meridian. He classified it among six stars of red hue - alongside Antares, Aldebaran, Arcturus, Betelgeuse, and Pollux - though we now know Sirius to appear blue-white.

In the vastness of the Pacific, Sirius held equal significance. For the ancient Polynesians, it was not only a celestial guide for navigation but also a marker of latitude: its declination aligns with that of the Fijian archipelago at 17° south, allowing it to pass directly overhead each night. In their sky lore, Sirius formed the body of a great celestial bird, Manu, with Canopus as the southern wingtip and Procyon the northern—dividing the heavens into two hemispheres.

Just as its morning rising signalled summer in Greece, for the Māori it marked the beginning of winter. They called the star Takurua, a name that referred both to the star and to the season itself. In Hawaii, its winter solstice culmination was met with celebration; there it was known as Kaʻulua, the ‘Queen of Heaven’.

Across world myth, the dog repeatedly appears as the guardian at the threshold of death’s veil - sometimes a fierce and terrifying sentinel, other times a faithful companion, ever watchful. As psychopomp, it weaves our soul between shadow and radiance, at once wounder and healer. It hunts us through the wilds of our own unbridled passions, demanding we face what is real, what is true—while also companioning us through our solitude, blanketing us in loyalty, acceptance, and the profound wisdom of instinct. It sees for us what we cannot, hears what we miss, knows the way when we are lost.

With the rising of the Dog Star, the living are distinguished by the Dog from the dead, for in truth everything withers that has not taken root. — Ancient alchemical text.

There is something, then, undeniably dog-like about Sirius, but this needn’t suggest that the fabled Sirians are therianthropes in the form of Anubis, the jackal-headed god who weighed the soul against a feather. Rather, if Dog consciousness is the guardian of the threshold, then to approach the star’s deeper mystery—to enter into the Sirian current—it becomes essential to first embody the virtues of the dog. Loyalty, joy, devotion, courage, constancy, simplicity, and a radiant love that expects nothing in return.

While qualities such as obedience, deference, and protectiveness may belong more to the realm of domesticated instinct, Sirius reflects a consciousness that is star-born, cosmic, not bound by the ego’s constructs. This is not the service of submission, but the service of love. To come close to Sirius is, in some mysterious way, to become Dog-like, to live with an open heart, to give without condition, to love in the purest sense. This, it seems, is the gateway to the Sun behind the Sun.

In Irish lore, the dog holds a sacred and storied place—both feared and revered. The word Cú, which also names the constellation now known as Leo, refers not to a lion, but to a hound. In this tradition, Leo is not imagined as a feline, but as a great dog. Yet the Cú is more than a hound, it is a warrior who has bound himself to the spirit of the dog. Cúchulainn, the Hound of Ulster, stands as the great mythic embodiment of this fusion: his ferocity and loyalty are indistinguishable, his destiny entwined with a name taken in penance for slaying a blacksmith’s faithful guard dog.

To be a Cú was to become more than human, it was to merge with the guardian spirit, fierce in protection, unwavering in devotion. The Irish Celts did not see the dog merely as a creature or symbol, but as a sentinel on the edge of the worlds, howling across the veil, standing watch at the threshold between life and death, a companion of the departed, a guide between realms, loyal to the last breath, faithful even beyond the end.

The Scorcher

Many of the ancient texts speak of Sirius in exalted, luminous terms—understandably so, given its brilliance. It is the fifth brightest light in our sky, and its heliacal rising in the Northern Hemisphere occurs in August, at the height of summer’s blaze—when the land is parched with heat, during monsoon, or as the Nile once swelled in sacred flood. Sirius, after all, is another Sun—bound to our own in ways still unfolding—and so the symbolism of pure light, blinding light, light that sears and consumes, likely arises from its fierce emergence in the sultry stillness of mid-latitudes.

Yet the ancient Egyptians were not of this world in the way we understand it now. They knew something more—something deeper—about Sirius. Perhaps they understood it not merely as a cosmic granary of souls, but as a portal to a wisdom beyond form. If one pauses to contemplate the symbolism of flesh burning away, could it not speak to the soul's release from the heavy casing of matter? Might it point to the sacrifice required to receive the wisdom of Sirius—a purification through fire, a transmutation of being? To seek the light of Sirius may be to accept the risk of being consumed by it.

Moreover, the notion of immortality has long been tied to the Solar lineage of light. It is no accident that the Freemasons chose the date of America’s independence to coincide with the conjunction of the Sun and Sirius—a declaration not merely of temporal sovereignty, but of alignment with the eternal flame, a bid for divine remembrance through the mystery of Light itself.

It feels from my own experience that Sirius consciousness is associated with directing the cosmic Christ through the Christ principle that arises through Rigel. It is a gateway into the Divine Masculine Light and a realm of strength, courage and honesty, which can only be reached by unwavering faith, loyalty, commitment and simplicity. It feels to be central to accessing our Higher Yang Consciousness and is the animating ‘force’ behind the 12 zodiacal consciousness’s. As such there is something about sacred architecture with Sirius, a pre-6D consciousness that creates form within the astral realms, allowing us to create within this plane, as depicted by the Egyptian traditions commitment to the construction of the incarnation/ excarnation buildings – the pyramids, many of which were aligned to Sirius.

The Rainbow Star - the Mundane becomes Sacred

Sirius twinkles with light. He is bright and every changing, pearly white at times, blue-white or yellow-white in other times, he can emit a cast range of differing colours within our visible spectrum. Termed ‘rainbow’, it is another omen that points to the fact that Sirius is a gateway to a deeper consciousness, possibly a direct access point to the consciousness that lies beyond the 6^th dimension. That Sirius A and B orbit each other at the same velocity as Chiron, the Rainbow bridge between the conscious and unconscious egO, merely reinforces the notion that Sirius is a gateway or bridge to a vaster consciousness.

As such Sirius has been known as facilitating the mundane on its path to become sacred. However, is it merely making the mundane spiritual or is it a two way system that enables consciousness to move beyond the Christ realm to sOurce and back again? The Egyptians refused to bury their dead during the 70 days of Sirius’ invisibility, as they feared that the gateway to the afterlife was closed and they celebrated the appearance of Sirius in August, as the Hidden One returned.

Is Sirius a gateway through to other worlds and an access point where the sacred become mundane and the ordinary sacred?

As we learn more about the nature of our galaxy and especially its magnetic field, we know that streams of energy from stars travel in specific directions, either up or down the galactic arm in which they are embedded. Stars are polarised to other stars, some receiving energy, some sending it out, all of which travels on the path of the magnetic field lines. Recent findings reveal we are ‘downstream’ from Sirius in the part of the galactic arm our solar system resides in. If God is the bringer of life (energy) and light, Sirius fits the description ~ it transmits its energy (highly charged particles) to our entire system via the magnetic field lines. We literally receive energy from Sirius! Did the ancient priests understand this process, thus naming this star "God"?

There feels as if there is something profound about the Sirius energy, as if it is the Divine Masculine Light that our Sun cannot truly access, and it seems that there Sirius is the companion to our Sun and once awakened is more important than our Sun, Moon and other planets!

Behenian Star

Sirius is also one of the 15 mystical Behenian stars, a group of stars revered by ancient alchemists for their supposed magical and transformative powers. These stars were thought to influence spiritual and earthly realms, often associated with healing, protection, and divine guidance. The other stars in this celestial group include Algol, Alcyone (Pleiades), Aldebaran, Capella, Vega, Procyon, Regulus, Alkaid, Algorab, Spica, Arcturus, Alphecca, Antares, and Deneb. Each of these stars was believed to carry its own unique qualities, playing an integral role in the alchemic arts and mystical practices of the ancient world.

Summary of Sirius’s meaning

• Ptolemy: Linked to the nature of Jupiter and Mars, suggesting qualities of expansion, fortune, and vitality combined with assertive action and courage.
• Robinson: Associated with fame, honour, and guardianship, emphasising faithfulness and the protective energy that comes with its presence.
• Ebertin: Builds upon Robinson's interpretation, suggesting a push for forward momentum, but also warns against rushing forward too quickly, reminding us of the balance needed when harnessing the star’s energy.
• Riger: Aligns with Ebertin’s view, emphasising a loving power in the push forward, an energy that propels us with care and devotion.
• Brady: Invokes the idea of transforming the mundane into the sacred, suggesting that Sirius is a force that can imbue our everyday lives with sacred purpose and meaning.
• The Blue Rose: Represents the gateway to the Divine Masculine, symbolising qualities such as unwavering commitment, loyalty, faith, and joy. It serves as a portal to higher realms, the 7th dimension and beyond, embodying both life and death. It is a channel to the Sun behind the Sun, a source of profound inner light.

Concluding Summary

Long revered across time and culture, Sirius is much more than the brightest star in the night sky, he is a radiant, multidimensional force, a celestial gateway to higher realms and deeper truths. Known as the Sun behind the Sun, he pulses with divine masculine energy, guiding those who are ready toward spiritual awakening, transmutation, and the sacred path of soul evolution. His light dissolves the ego, revealing a purer consciousness rooted in love, loyalty, courage, and devotion, virtues mirrored in the faithful dog with which it is so universally associated. From ancient Egyptian rites and Polynesian navigation to the scared hound of Ireland, Sirius has been central to myth, magic, and the architecture of the soul. A transmitter of cosmic energy and an initiator of the Christ Light, it serves as both guardian and guide, offering a return to Source through simplicity, sacredness, and spiritual discipline. In essence, Sirius is a portal through which the mundane becomes sacred, and the sacred finds form.