Aspects
Ascendant Sextile Icarus
Icarus A friendly, opportunity-shaped aspect between planets about 60 degrees apart. It offers help you have to reach for rather than receive automatically. 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. offers openings to step out boldly, but only if you actually take the leap rather than admiring it from the edge. The nerve is available, not automatic. Say yes to the small daring chances and the bigger ones grow real.
Lean in — Act on the bold openings that present themselves.
Watch for — Wait for certainty before you ever jump.
- opportunity
- courage
- action
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 sextile as an opportunity that rewards being acted on.