Alphard
Imum Coeli Conjunct Alphard
With your natal 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. 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. Alphard, the Solitary One, the star's deep passion and its call for mastery grounds your home, ancestry, and private base. Your roots run intense and private, often carrying strong undercurrents of feeling that ask to be understood rather than acted out blindly. The inner ground is rich and serious, and the star rewards the patient self-command that masters it. Read it with Alphard's full nature and the rest of the chart, since a single star colors but does not dictate.
- fixed star
- alphard
- imum coeli
- conjunction
Sources
- Robson, The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology (1923)Gives the nature and influence of Alphard as it falls on the relationship and foundation angles of a chart.
- Brady, Brady's Book of Fixed Stars (1998)Reads Alphard by its myth as the Solitary One and heliacal phase as it bears on partnership and the private base.
- Ebertin, Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation (1971)Gives the modern reading of Alphard on the lower and western angles of the chart.