Zosma
Imum Coeli Conjunct Zosma
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. Zosma, the star's victim-savior theme, its fear softened by benefit through others, settles into home, ancestry, and your soul's base. The private ground of your life may hold both an old wound and the help that heals it, support flowing in from kin or the deep past. 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 The bottom of the chart, another name for the Imum Coeli. It represents your innermost base and where you come from. without ruling it, so weigh Zosma beside the rest of your chart and any planet it meets.
- fixed star
- zosma
- imum coeli
- conjunction
Sources
- Robson, The Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology (1923)Gives Zosma's traditional nature of fear and vulnerability eased by benefit through others, read here on the relational and domestic angles.
- Brady, Brady's Book of Fixed Stars (1998)Reads Zosma through the victim-savior myth of the lion's back 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 Zosma on a conjunct point, here the Descendant and Imum Coeli.