Algorab
Imum Coeli Conjunct Algorab
With your The lowest point of the chart, opposite the Midheaven, often called the IC. It points to home, roots, family, and your private foundation. When two planets sit at the same point in the zodiac, blending their meanings into one. The most powerful and direct of the aspects. Algorab, the star's raven nature, its scavenging wit and destructive edge, settles into home, ancestry, and your private base. The roots of your life may be inventive and survival-smart, yet the same The bottom of the chart, another name for the Imum Coeli. It represents your innermost base and where you come from. can hold an old grasping or a sharp undercurrent in the family. A 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. colors this foundation without ruling it, so weigh Algorab beside the rest of your chart and any planet it meets.
- fixed star
- algorab
- imum coeli
- conjunction
Sources
- Robson, The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology (1923)Gives Algorab's traditional nature of scavenging cleverness with a destructive, repellent edge, read here on the relational and domestic angles.
- Brady, Brady's Book of Fixed Stars (1998)Reads Algorab through the raven myth of Corvus and its meaning by conjunction, applied to partnership and the roots of the chart.
- Ebertin, Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation (1971)Gives the practical, observed effect of Algorab on a conjunct point, here the Descendant and Imum Coeli.