Decoding Ancestral Astrology with your Imum Coeli

Getting to the Root of the Chart through Ancestral Karma.

If you’re anything like me you’re obsessed with astrology, the past, ancestry and getting to the root cause of what’s holding you back from expanding to your highest potential in this life (big Jupiter problems there.) Within the realm of decoding your cosmic blueprint you might have wondered, time and time again, how your birth chart relates to your Ancestral Karma. Trust me when I say I get it. This coming from a soul who history, the past, and esoteric teachings have been woven through their whole life. Seriously, I went to university for archeology. I’ve always been digging into the past.

When I began studying astrology I felt like something was missing. I instantly started to wonder about karma, how past lives were linked to the birth chart and how I could untangle the relationship with my family (those here on earth, and those in spirit) through understanding my soul blueprint better. I became obsessed with certain aspects of the birth chart.

At the very start of digging into astrology, one of my favourite parts of the birth chart to start readings (and still is honestly) was what is called the Four Angles. It’s the first place I look in a chart to understand someones soul.

The Four Angles in your chart are determined by your birth time and are part of the coding and make up of your entry into this world. Within the Four Angles you find your Rising sign (ASC), your Midheaven (MC), your Descendant (DSC), and your Imum Coeli (IC). Without them, you’re missing some of the most important parts that make up your chart, aka, you.

Each point forms a sacred part of your incarnation cross at the exact moment you were born. Epic, right?

What is the Imum Coeli (IC)

The Imum Coeli (IC) was the point in particular that caused a spark within me to begin to burn and engulf my thoughts as this is the point of your past, your roots, your past lives, and your ancestry. The best part was the moment I discovered that my North Node (point of destiny fulfilment in this life) was sitting ever so sweetly on my Imum Coeli (further referred to as IC from this point on.)

“Woah, I literally came here to do this work.” I had chills when this information seemingly dropped into my lap from the aether. But that’s how this stuff works. (More on that another day.)

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This one point within your chart contains magick and medicine to help you finally come home to yourself and untangle the roots of who you are leading you to deeper nourishment of self.

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This is the one placement in your birth chart that not enough people are talking about in my opinion.

If I’m being honestly, 98% of the souls I connect with have not heard of or explored this potent placement inside of their charts. I’ve had the honour of helping hundreds of clients access the magick and medicine (and karmic wounding) entangled in this little placement often hidden within the base of your chart.

The IC, also called the Nadir is opposite your Midheaven and holds the key to your:

• Your karmic roots through your subconscious and past life patterns, generational karma, and comfort zones.

• How you naturally feel safe, nurtured, and secure and deepen your self care through building a life in alignment with who you truly are.

• How to clear, cleanse, and release old karmic debts and pain points by shedding light on the areas of your past life signatures that need better understanding.

• How to heal your root system and begin to understand what you need in order to have a secure and solid foundation to live upon.

This one point within your chart contains magick and medicine to help you finally come home to yourself and untangle the roots of who you are leading you to deeper nourishment of self.

This is the ultimate self care placement as creating a home within yourself begins to heal the part of you that is seeking safety outside of yourself.

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The IC and connection to early home life, ancestral karma, and family

The entire landscape of the root of your chart was designed within the home landscape in early life. How you experienced the the home, the level of chaos, disruption, or harm found inside of the home. The level of stability found inside of your early childhood home is exposed through the IC sign, house (when using whole signs house system), and the aspects to the IC.

For example, the Aquarian IC often feels like an alien in their own family. The Aries IC often finds battles in the home, or that the mother or father was simply to busy for them. The Sagittarius IC often finds dogmatic, or religious zealots. This obviously are more complex than I am making them out to be right now, but you get the picture.

Each signature of the IC placement will help you understand the story of your ancestral karma you are untangling in this life. This means understanding deeper lessons around family, care, safety, and nourishment. Another example, Uranus aspecting the IC often leads to the soul who never felt stability in the home, and must break free from old ancestral karma.

I believe we re-create our karmic patterns through the birth chart, only to re-live them in our early life in order to finally come into reckoning later in life through raising our consciousness. The IC helps us understand these karmic lessons on a deeper level.

Each IC placement holds within it deep wounding around a certain energy in your life but your IC exposes the cracks in the foundation and provides you with the medicine to begin securing your footing from within (which always in turn begins to flower on the external.)

Through this placement I have healed massive wounding around my ancestry and family and untangle more unhealed places to practice deeper self love and forgiveness every single day.

What has decoding my IC done for me?

Over the last four years I’ve been able to understand:

• The link between feeling like an outsider or black-sheep in my family and my patriarchal line, my fathers moon sign, and both my parents Chiron placement.

• The link between many ancestors homes being taken from them (bombings in WW2, the Highland cleansing, and many many cases of adoption and abandonment

• The rebel spirit that exists within my ancestry in which I have incarnated to be the vessel of change for

It’s been a lot to process but one of the most impactful places of healing I’ve accessed so far. This placement has helped me come to terms with the things I wish my parents had done with their lives, the love they carry for me, and deep forgiveness for the disconnection I have always felt.

The IC to Midheaven connection

If I could leave you with one thing to integrate today as you’re diving into the emotional undercurrent of this placement, it would be this: What happens in the IC impacts the Midheaven. This means, what you learn through your root system, becomes the way you bloom in this world.

The unprocessed wounds will be carried into your eco system, and become the Midheaven story you carry into the world. This can manifest in various ways, depending on your particular IC story, but to understand how your legacy becomes impacted by the lack of safety, care, support, and nourishment in your karmic root system will radically shift the way you show up in this world. I teach all about this in my Root to Rise Masterclass inside of the You Are The Cosmos membership.

This is the magick of Ancestral Karma and Astrology weaved together to unlock the major soul lessons you are working through in this incarnation. Imagine what wealth of knowledge is held within this placement in your chart?

Want to hear more of my IC story, and how it’s changed my life? I share all my IC breakthroughs and stories inside of my Decoding Ancestral Karma with the Imum Coeli Guide.

I would love to hear where your IC in your birth chart is, and any “Aha” moments you may have had while reading this today. Share your IC stories with me in the comments.

Not sure where your IC is in your birth chart? I made this just for you.

It’s my goal to make these Astrology teachings accessible to you so I’ve created a 31 page guide to help you access all the magick of this placement within your chart.

I’ve made it one of my deepest focuses inside of It’s Karmic: Past Life Astrology Certification and It’s Karmic 2: Ancestral Karmic Astrology for the major reason that it should be talked about more as it is the doorway to deep self healing and inner soul restoration.

This Guide is for you if you are obsessed with understanding where you came from while unearthing the shadow and light of your ancestry and lineage through astrology.

This is guide is for you if you are:

• A generational curse breaker, paradigms shifter, and system disruptor who knows you incarnated to break the cycles of your inherited karma and start liberating your bloodline.

• The Black-Sheep, Maverick, or Misfit of the family who wants to understand who they are, and what soul lessons you incarnated to heal in this incarnation.

• A healer, spiritual teacher, coach, mentor who is ready to unlock the magick of self love by getting to the core wounds around nourishment, safety, the subconscious, and home.

• A passionate astrology enthusiast or seasoned astrologer who is tired AF of fluff astrology out there and wants to bring ancestral karma and deep soul healing into your work.

• Someone who has been through a dark night of the soul and is ready to come home to themselves by moving through the heavy shit with practical and powerful tools and make radical changes in their life.

• Someone who knows the ancestral cycles end with you, and is ready to make peace with yourself by discovering the magick and medicines in your birth chart.

If this sounds like you, then you’re in the right place.

Discover the guide here

Plus, I teach an entire workshop on this inside of my membership, You Are The Cosmos, and inside of It’s Karmic 2: Decoding Ancestral Karma.

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