Canopus
Imum Coeli Conjunct Canopus
Canopus, the great pilot star, carries the navigator's long voyage and a change for the better, and at the The bottom of the chart, another name for the Imum Coeli. It represents your innermost base and where you come from. it touches home, ancestry, and the soul's base. Your foundation may be one of journeys, migrations, or a family that moved toward something better, a home built through passage rather than staying put. Read Canopus with the whole chart, since one star colors your roots but does not dictate them.
- fixed star
- canopus
- imum coeli
- conjunction
Sources
- Robson, The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology (1923)Gives Canopus's traditional nature of voyages and change at the angles.
- Brady, Brady's Book of Fixed Stars (1998)Reads Canopus through the pilot-star myth, applied to roots and relating.
- Ebertin, Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation (1971)Gives the observed effect of Canopus on a conjunct point at an angle.