Aspects
Ascendant Opposition Icarus
Icarus opposite your The zodiac degree rising on the eastern horizon at your birth, also called the rising sign. It sets the whole house framework of the chart and colors how you meet the world. means your appetite for flight shows up in the people you attract, the daredevils and risk-takers who stir you to leap. They carry the boldness you have not yet claimed. Own your own nerve instead of living it through them.
Lean in — Reclaim the daring you admire in others.
Watch for — Outsource all your risks to bolder friends.
- mirror
- boldness
- others
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads Icarus by its namesake, the youth who flew too close to the sun, as a point of daring flight, liberation, and the recklessness that risks the fall.
- Hand, Horoscope Symbols (1981)Treats the meeting of daring flight and the Ascendant, the self and persona, as a specific working relationship.
- Tierney, Dynamics of Aspect Analysis (1983)Reads the opposition as a polarity seeking balance, often met through others.