Aspects
Icarus Sextile Imum Coeli
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 lowest point of the chart, opposite the Midheaven, often called the IC. It points to home, roots, family, and your private foundation. offers openings to draw courage from your foundation, but only if you act on what your roots make possible. The base is a springboard you must use. Lean on your ground and take the leaps it enables.
Lean in — Use your foundation as a springboard for bold acts.
Watch for — Sit on a strong base and never leap from it.
- opportunity
- roots
- courage
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 Imum Coeli, home and roots, as a specific working relationship.
- Tierney, Dynamics of Aspect Analysis (1983)Reads the sextile as an opportunity that rewards being acted on.