Alkaid
Imum Coeli Conjunct Alkaid
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. Alkaid, the Bear's tail and mourning star that can face crisis and death, settles into your roots and ancestry. Home and family may hold remembered loss, hardship, or solemn endings woven into the private base of your life. Alkaid colors but does not dictate, so weigh its grave, crisis-touched quality against the rest of the chart before you read the foundation as only sorrowful.
- fixed star
- alkaid
- imum_coeli
- conjunction
Sources
- Robson, The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology (1923)Casts Alkaid as the Bear's tail, a mourning star facing crisis and death, here read at the setting and nadir angles.
- Brady, Brady's Book of Fixed Stars (1998)Reads Alkaid by the Bear'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 Alkaid's sober, crisis-touched influence, turned toward what you attract and your roots.