Menkar
Imum Coeli Conjunct Menkar
Menkar is the Whale's jaw, a star of inherited burdens and rising to a larger cause. 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. it sits in the ancestry and the home: a family line that passes down a weight or a duty, a private foundation bound to collective matters, roots that carry more than one generation's load. Met consciously the inheritance becomes a calling, so read the star with the rest of the chart.
- fixed star
- menkar
- imum coeli
- conjunction
Sources
- Robson, The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology (1923)Gives the burdened, cause-bearing nature of Menkar and its angular influence.
- Brady, Brady's Book of Fixed Stars (1998)Reads Menkar by the Whale myth and its heliacal phase on the setting and nadir angles.
- Ebertin, Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation (1971)Gives the modern reading of Menkar, applied to partnership and roots through the angles.