Menkar
Imum Coeli Conjunct Menkar
Menkar is the Whale's jaw, a star of inherited burdens and rising to a larger cause. At the Imum Coeli 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.