Vindemiatrix
Imum Coeli Conjunct Vindemiatrix
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. Vindemiatrix, the star's blend of concentrated focus and a leaning toward folly settles into home, ancestry, and your private ground. The base of your life can be diligent and deeply gathered, yet the same The bottom of the chart, another name for the Imum Coeli. It represents your innermost base and where you come from. may hold an old grief or an early loss 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 Vindemiatrix beside the rest of your chart and any planet it meets.
- fixed star
- vindemiatrix
- imum coeli
- conjunction
Sources
- Robson, The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology (1923)Gives Vindemiatrix's traditional nature of focus shadowed by folly and the old widow-maker caution, read here on the relational and domestic angles.
- Brady, Brady's Book of Fixed Stars (1998)Reads Vindemiatrix through its grape-gatherer myth 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 Vindemiatrix on a conjunct point, here the Descendant and Imum Coeli.