Alkaid: Taming Danger and Wielding Chaos

As with Fomalhaut , my work with Alkaid started with a solar return. The first thing I ran into was that it is harder to find information about Alkaid than most fixed stars; most of the related work focuses on Ursa Major in general, or maybe Dubhe, another star in the same constellation. Later in my work I started to wonder if a “shrouding” of some kind was part of the protective influence I’ve…