Aspects
Icarus Quincunx Midheaven
Icarus quincunx your Midheaven keeps your appetite for professional risk slightly mismatched with your actual role, so you over- or under-reach by turns. Ongoing recalibration is the work. Right-size each bold move to the real situation.
Lean in — Tune your ambition to fit the role you hold.
Watch for — Apply the same reckless reach everywhere.
- adjustment
- ambition
- tuning
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 Midheaven, career and public role, as a specific working relationship.
- Tierney, Dynamics of Aspect Analysis (1983)Reads the quincunx as a minor aspect of adjustment and incongruity that must be continually realigned.