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Aldebaran spent six billion years doing invisible work before it became one of the brightest objects in the sky. Decan 2 asked the same question that star answers: what holds when no one is watching and the results are not yet visible?
The photons entering your eyes right now left Aldebaran in 1960. This K5 III orange giant spent six billion years on the main sequence, fusing hydrogen in obscurity, before expanding into a star 439 times brighter than the Sun. The Bull's eye opens Decan 2 with a teaching older than the Earth itself: foundation precedes greatness, and endurance is the price of expansion.
The photons entering your eyes right now left Regulus in 1946. The Heart of the Lion spins at 96.5% of its breakup velocity, holding itself together at the edge of self-destruction for a quarter of a billion years. Every civilization that observed this star independently called it king. June 28-July 7: claim your sovereignty and discover what it costs to hold it.