Alkaid

Alkaid belongs to the transmitted fifteen-star corpus in the local magical source base. That gives the page a clear job: describe the materia and operation actually preserved in the local texts instead of drifting into unsourced fixed-star boilerplate. (Hess and Warnock, De Quindecim Stellis; Agrippa, Three Books, Book II, ch. 47)

Warnock's summary of the Bodleian material pairs Alkaid with loadstone and chicory. Agrippa gives a closely related list with loadstone, succory, mugwort, periwinkle, and the tooth of a wolf. The operation preserved in those sources is practical and protective: security in travel, resistance to enchantment, and, in the Bodleian line, aid to hunters when combined with the wolf-tooth correspondence. (Warnock, Fixed Star, Sign and Constellation Magic; Agrippa, Three Books, Book I)

That narrower emphasis is the useful one to keep. Alkaid is not especially well served by inflated psychological summary. The local evidence treats it as a star of directional protection, safe passage, and guarded movement.

Read it together with Behenian Star Timing if the goal is practical stellar work. Timing is part of the operation, not an optional extra.