Polaris
Imum Coeli Conjunct Polaris
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. 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. Polaris, the steady Pole Star of guidance and direction, settles into your roots and ancestry. Home and family may serve as the fixed point you orient your whole life around, a steadying inner north that keeps you on course. Polaris colors but does not dictate, so weigh its constant, directional quality against the rest of the chart before you call the foundation unmoving.
- fixed star
- polaris
- imum_coeli
- conjunction
Sources
- Robson, The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology (1923)Casts Polaris as the steady Pole Star of guidance and direction, here read at the setting and nadir angles.
- Brady, Brady's Book of Fixed Stars (1998)Reads Polaris by its lodestar myth and heliacal phase, applied to partnership and to the private foundation.
- Ebertin, Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation (1971)Gives the modern reading of Polaris's steadying, directional influence, turned toward what you attract and your roots.