Aspects
Eris Conjunction Imum Coeli
The discord is rooted in your home. With Eris on your Imum Coeli, the theme of strife that exposes the excluded is fused with the base of your chart, so your foundation tends to carry conflict and exclusion: you may come from a family of strife, have been the black sheep or the outsider at home, or inherit a grievance and a not-belonging that runs through your roots. A sense of being cast out can live at the very bottom of your life. The gift is the one who can finally name the family's buried strife and end the exclusion at the root. The shadow is a childhood of conflict, an inherited resentment, or a home that never accepted you. The lifelong work is to claim belonging on your own terms, ending the exile where it began.
Lean in — Claim belonging on your own terms, ending the exile.
Watch for — Carry an inherited resentment as if home never accepted you.
- eris
- imum_coeli
- conjunction
- ancestry
Sources
- George, Asteroid Goddesses (1986)Reads the natal Eris conjunction the Imum Coeli as the dwarf planet of discord and the excluded one who forces a reckoning, the strife that exposes what was left out, working through home, roots, and ancestry.
- Tarnas, Cosmos and Psyche (2006)Tarnas frames Eris as an archetype of disruptive, boundary-shattering force; here the Imum Coeli is where Eris conjunction brings that necessary discord into home, roots, and ancestry.
- Greene, Relating: An Astrological Guide to Living with Others on a Small Planet (1977)Greene frames the Imum Coeli as the fourth house of home and the ancestral foundation, where Eris conjunction sets the theme of the outsider, the uninvited, and the conflict that cannot be avoided.