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Praesepe

Imum Coeli Conjunct Praesepe

Praesepe, the Beehive cluster, carries the swarm and the unseen industry of the crowd, and at the nadir it works on home, family, and foundation. Your private base may be busy, populous, and full of comings and goings, a household or lineage humming with collective activity. Read Praesepe with the whole chart, since one star colors your roots but does not dictate them, and its edge rewards conscious handling.

Sources

  • Robson, The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology (1923)Gives Praesepe's traditional nature of the swarm at the angles.
  • Brady, Brady's Book of Fixed Stars (1998)Reads Praesepe through the Beehive cluster's myth, applied to roots and relating.
  • Ebertin, Fixed Stars and Their Interpretation (1971)Gives the observed effect of Praesepe on a conjunct point at an angle.