Read with Altair, Under Aquila

Tarazed carries no strong independent delineation in the tradition; it is read as part of the constellation Aquila, taking the Mars-and-Jupiter nature Ptolemy assigns the eagle's bright stars and lending its own weight to the eagle's themes of command and bold enterprise. This is the ordinary situation for the secondary stars of a constellation: the compiling tradition, Robson included, attaches a detailed personality reading only to the brightest one or two and treats the rest by association. Its genuine interest is astronomical, an evolved giant caught in a brief, bright and unstable phase of its life.

Tarazed's status as a bright giant rather than a main-sequence star like its neighbour Altair means the two, though close together in the sky and both prominent, are at entirely different points in stellar evolution, a genuine astronomical distinction the shared Mars-and-Jupiter delineation, inherited wholesale from the constellation's brightest star, does nothing to register. No specific delineation beyond the shared Mars-and-Jupiter nature of Aquila's bright stars is recorded for Tarazed individually in Robson or the sources he draws on, which is the ordinary condition for a constellation's second-brightest star.