Aspects
Ascendant Trine Icarus
Icarus A flowing, supportive aspect between planets about 120 degrees apart, usually in the same element. Things come easily here, sometimes too easily to notice. 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. lets boldness flow naturally into your presence, so you take leaps that look graceful and unforced to everyone watching. The danger is taking the ease for granted. Keep checking the altitude even when flight feels free.
Lean in — Use your natural nerve, and still respect limits.
Watch for — Assume your luck with risk will never run out.
- flow
- nerve
- grace
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 trine as an easy, harmonious flow between two principles.