Altair
Imum Coeli Conjunct Altair
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. Altair, the flying Eagle of bold soaring fortune, settles into your roots, home, and ancestry. The private base of your life carries an ambitious, mobile, upward-reaching streak, and family fortunes may rise and fall with some swiftness. Altair colors but does not dictate, so weigh its fleeting, high-flying quality against the steadier signs in your chart.
- fixed star
- altair
- imum_coeli
- conjunction
Sources
- Robson, The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology (1923)Casts Altair as the bold, soaring, swift fortune of the flying Eagle, here read at the setting and nadir angles.
- Brady, Brady's Book of Fixed Stars (1998)Reads Altair by the Eagle'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 Altair's daring, high-flying influence, turned toward what you attract and your roots.