Facies
Imum Coeli Conjunct Facies
With your 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. Facies, the star's nature, the archer's unblinking aim with its ruthless focus and danger, settles into home, ancestry, and your private base. The roots of your life may be intensely purposeful and disciplined, yet the same The bottom of the chart, another name for the Imum Coeli. It represents your innermost base and where you come from. can carry an exacting hardness or an old risk in the family line. A 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. colors this foundation without ruling it, so weigh Facies beside the rest of your chart and any planet it meets.
- fixed star
- facies
- imum coeli
- conjunction
Sources
- Robson, The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology (1923)Gives Facies's traditional nature of ruthless, unblinking focus with attendant danger, read here on the relational and domestic angles.
- Brady, Brady's Book of Fixed Stars (1998)Reads Facies through the archer's-face nebula of Sagittarius and its meaning by conjunction, applied to partnership and the roots of the chart.
- Ebertin, Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation (1971)Gives the practical, observed effect of Facies on a conjunct point, here the Descendant and Imum Coeli.