Bellatrix
Imum Coeli Conjunct Bellatrix
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. Bellatrix, the Amazon Star, the star's swift force and its theme of sudden rise or ruin settles into your home, family, and inner base. Your foundations may carry a restless, combative energy, and fortunes at home can turn quickly, asking you to keep the private ground steady. Handled well, Bellatrix gives a fierce protectiveness over your own; handled rashly, it unsettles the base. Read it with Bellatrix's full nature and the rest of the chart, since a single star colors but does not dictate.
- fixed star
- bellatrix
- imum coeli
- conjunction
Sources
- Robson, The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology (1923)Gives the nature and influence of Bellatrix as it falls on the relationship and foundation angles of a chart.
- Brady, Brady's Book of Fixed Stars (1998)Reads Bellatrix by its Amazon myth and heliacal phase as it bears on partnership and the private base.
- Ebertin, Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation (1971)Gives the modern reading of Bellatrix on the lower and western angles of the chart.