Positions
Imum Coeli in Leo
Modern
Leo on the The lowest point of the chart, opposite the Midheaven, often called the IC. It points to home, roots, family, and your private foundation. plants your private foundation in pride, heart, and a sense of personal worth. The early home likely had a powerful figure at its center, often the father, and a warmth or theater to it, and from it you absorbed the message that you were meant to shine and be seen. Your inner base wants to be a place of love freely given and creativity, a hearth with a generous fire. The gift is a core of genuine self-respect to draw on; the work is healing any pride or hunger for approval at the root, so your worth feels like a quiet given and not a performance you keep having to earn.
Traditional (Hellenistic)
With Leo on the Hypogeion, the A planet sits in its domicile when it is in the sign it rules, like Mars in Aries. It is at home here, able to express its nature with full strength and ease. of the Sun holds the angle of foundations, parents, and land, and the Sun becomes The planet or point that stands in for a particular person, thing, or topic in a chart. In a money question, for instance, the ruler of the second house is its significator. of the family base and the end of the matter. Read for ancestry and the close of things, the fourth place here gives a dignified, warm-hearted origin, a household with pride in itself, often centered on a strong father or a name to live up to. The native is rooted in honor and a sense of personal worth carried from the home. Weigh the Sun by sign, house, and condition: well placed it gives a proud lineage and a respected old age, afflicted it gives a domineering parent, pride at the root, and a foundation that demands to be admired.
- leo
- imum coeli
- roots
- home
- pride
Sources
- Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, III.10Takes the parents and the household from the lower angle by its sign and ruler; the Sun marks the father and dignity.
- Firmicus, MathesisNames the lowest angle the place of parents and patrimony, where the Sun signifies the father and the family's honor.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1988)Reads the IC as the inner foundation; a Leo IC is rooted in self-worth and a need to feel one truly matters.