Positions
Imum Coeli in Sagittarius
Modern
Sagittarius on the Imum Coeli plants your private foundation in meaning, freedom, and a reach toward something larger. The early home may have carried a strong belief or philosophy, foreign or far-flung roots, or a sense that the horizon was always open, and from it you learned to find your ground in what you understand and trust rather than in one fixed place. Your base is broad and a little nomadic. The gift is a foundation of faith and perspective you can take anywhere; the work is staying present to the actual home in front of you, so the late years are lived here and not always just over the next hill.
Traditional (Hellenistic)
With Sagittarius on the Hypogeion, the day house of Jupiter holds the angle of foundations, parents, and land, and Jupiter becomes significator of the family base and the end of the matter. Read for ancestry and the close of things, the fourth place here gives an expansive, hopeful origin, a household shaped by belief, learning, or distance, perhaps foreign roots, a religious tone, or a family on the move. The native is rooted in a worldview rather than a single plot of ground. Weigh Jupiter by sign, house, and condition: well placed it gives a generous, principled base and a wise old age, afflicted it gives roots too loose to hold and a foundation forever seeking elsewhere for home.
- sagittarius
- imum coeli
- roots
- home
- freedom
Sources
- Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, III.10Takes the parents and the household from the lower angle by its sign and lord; Jupiter inclines the roots to faith and breadth.
- Firmicus, MathesisNames the lowest angle the place of patrimony and parents, here colored by the expansive, far-reaching Jupiter.
- Forrest, The Inner Sky (1988)Reads the IC as the inner home; a Sagittarius IC is rooted in meaning, belief, and the freedom to roam.