Achernar
Imum Coeli Conjunct Achernar
At the The lowest point of the chart, opposite the Midheaven, often called the IC. It points to home, roots, family, and your private foundation. the A star in the background sky beyond the planets, holding its place in the constellations. Astrology reads contacts to certain bright stars as carrying their own distinct fortunes. Achernar, the End of the River and its reward at the close of a long course, settles into your roots and ancestry. Home and family may carry the sense of a long journey reaching its mouth, a foundation that completes and rewards what came before. Achernar colors but does not dictate, so weigh its fortunate, completing quality against the rest of the chart before you read the roots as fully settled.
- fixed star
- achernar
- imum_coeli
- conjunction
Sources
- Robson, The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology (1923)Casts Achernar as the End of the River, reward and completion at the close of a long course, here read at the setting and nadir angles.
- Brady, Brady's Book of Fixed Stars (1998)Reads Achernar by the river's myth and heliacal phase, applied to partnership and to the private foundation.
- Ebertin, Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation (1971)Gives the modern reading of Achernar's completing, rewarding influence, turned toward what you attract and your roots.