Aspects
Icarus Quincunx Mercury
Icarus forms a An awkward aspect between planets about 150 degrees apart, joining signs with nothing in common. It asks for constant small adjustments between things that do not naturally fit. to your Mercury, so daring thought never quite fits ordinary sense, asking ongoing adjustment between the bold idea and the warning. The work is to keep tuning the two.
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- mercury
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 an aspect as a specific working relationship between two principles, read by the geometry of the angle between them.