Imum Coeli Sign

IC in Aries Sign

The family theme you inherit here is fighter instinct, the lure of conflict, and very likely career in the armed forces, the navy or the air force.

Most commonly it will be a male family member from whom you inherit your tremendous drive and refusal to back down. There will be one relative, more than any other, whom you resemble physically – but who also carries this theme in his/her life.

They could also go back one or two branches of the family tree behind them to discover a similar life story and look – which of course they then pick up. In your own life, this may be the only Aries element in the horoscope, so it may not define you.

If you are strong Aries, though, with three or more horoscope factors, a uniform could be part of their career. Police, ambulance and emergency services are also typical of an Aries IC as it’s the action-stations sign.

IC in Taurus Sign

Taurus influences affairs in the fourth house producing a strong underlying urge toward security for your family.

The home must be attractive, and, if possible, paid for and well insured. You strive to put down roots and become as stable as the society will allow.

Preferably, you will live in the country or at least in an area large enough to enable you to garden and have a sense of nature in your environment. You have strong instincts to provide materially for your family.

Unless Venus is badly aspected, the influence of Taurus on the cusp of the fourth house suggests an enjoyable, easygoing home environment, and harmony, serenity, and graciousness in your later years.

IC in Gemini Sign

Someone in your family tree was a born writer or public speaker, and you have picked up these traits from them.

This may be a small part of your personality or a huge part if you have many Gemini factors in your personal horoscope.

You will physically resemble this family member more than any other and may talk with your hands, speak a second language or have a striking voice – which you also pick up from them. Sometimes beautiful handwriting is also inherited.

There may be a signwriter, radio announcer, author or singer in your family tree as Gemini rules communication. In your lifetime you may be drawn to professions, hobbies or interests which allow you to get your message across – so you play the messenger role as part of your astrological DNA inherited from a relative.

IC in Cancer Sign

You have picked up Cancerian ‘DNA’ in your family tree thanks to a relative who was probably your mother, grandmother or great-grandmother.

Cancer rules the female line. Sometimes it is a male who had a ‘mothering’ role so he may have been a cook, teacher, nurse or even raised the children himself.

You will physically resemble this family member more than any other.

Depending on your personal chart, you may be heavily Cancerian (if you have three or more horoscope factors there) or just find that your maternal instinct shows up occasionally, through particular jobs or interests.

In your lifetime you may be drawn to children’s charities, entertainment for children or teenagers, motherhood itself (as a full-time occupation), and so on.

Cancer is also very much about patriotism so this family member would have been prepared to fight for/die for the nation.

Property also matters to you with this IC position.

IC in Leo Sign

The family theme you inherit here is – the world of children. It may help to remember that both J.K.Rowling and Beatrix Potter were Sun Leo authors. Someone in your family tree may have been a teacher.

He or she may have been a full-time parent, really throwing themselves into the role of raising a younger generation.

You commonly find that people who lead, mentor or guide the young turn up in the family tree if you have a Leo IC. The relative you most resemble physically may have been a Girl Guides or Boy Scouts leader, or perhaps the coach for the local school football team.

You have certainly inherited leadership qualities from this family member and may also have picked up traces of their profile, body type/shape, hair and so on.

IC in Virgo Sign

The family theme you inherit here is all about the body! Consequently, you may have a very influential close relative who worked as a doctor, nurse, nutritionist, surgeon, healer or similar.

Sometimes the tables turn, so your family member had significant health or medical issues to deal with in his/her lifetime. It is common for you also to inherit these.

The family theme you have picked up is the work ethic and its importance in everyday life.

If illness prevented this relative from working (he or she was an invalid), then that is a big story in your family tree.

Alternatively, you may have had a family member who was a famously hard worker, and well-known for his/her duty and service to others, in the field of medicine, fitness, sport and so on – whatever relates to the body.

IC in Libra Sign

The family theme you inherit here is about love and war. The love theme is evident as your ancestor or close relative may have become so well-known for their marriage or partnership.

That’s the ‘love’ part of the family story. The ‘war’ part might have been about the battle for acceptance within the family, or even the battle between partners if it ended in divorce.

The Libra IC position suggests that not only have you inherited this love/war storyline in your own life, you may also physically resemble the family member who acted it out.

It may be an echo of his/her profile, or perhaps your body type and shape.

IC in Scorpio Sign

The family theme you inherit here is power and money, sex and money and death and money! Perhaps there is quite a dramatic story in your family tree.

More commonly, you may be looking at a married couple who ran a business together – so their sex lives were mixed up with their money. There will be one relative, more than any other, whom you resemble – who sums this theme up in his/her life.

Of course, their direct ancestor may also carry the family ‘gene’ of Scorpio so that you could pick up elements of their face/body type.

In your life, your pursuit of sex and money, power and money – and the theme of death and money (for example, through the inherited property) helps you carry on the family gene theme.

The more Scorpio elements you have in your chart, the more it dominates you.

IC in Sagittarius Sign

The family theme you inherit is travel, both physically and mentally. You apparently have a close relative or had an ancestor, who was either a migrant or a world traveller.

He or she was also a perpetual student of life and always educating himself/herself through books, classes, courses and workshops.

Depending on the era you were born into, you may have a pilot in the family tree or a global academic – or a market trader who spent his/her life buying and selling foreign produce and acquiring a second language.

In your own life, you carry on this family astrological DNA through a life spent online, exchanging ideas with other cultures and nationalities, but also through some ambitious journeys. You may even emigrate.

IC in Capricorn Sign

You were born into a family tree where one relative, in particular, scaled the heights. This person in your family tree either married up (elevating himself or herself a class above) or worked very hard to reach the top of his/her chosen field.

You have inherited this ambition and may either be a social mountaineer yourself when you need to be or have already soared in your chosen field.

Depending on how many horoscope factors you have in Capricorn, you will either strongly mirror this relative’s life (and appearance) or do so, just slightly.

A Capricorn IC position suggests that there is a strong imprint of ambition in your family tree and that at one point, the branch changed considerably as someone broke away from being working class, and moved to the middle class – or moved from middle class to upper middle.

Sometimes the break is financial. In your own life, you will also explore this idea of ‘moving on up.’

IC in Aquarius Sign

You were born into a family tree where one person, in particular, was known for his/her group involvement. This person may have been part of an orchestra, football team, political party or charity.

Typically, this hugely influential family member may have been part of more than one group, like a society or association, and made it his/her own.

You will have picked up a family resemblance, and it may even go back a further generation, as this relative’s mother or father also carried the astrological ‘gene’ in the horoscope.

The Aquarius IC in your horoscope suggests that you have a humanitarian in the ranks who was more interested in being part of the human ‘family ‘ than his or her actual clan. Friendship rather than a relationship or blood ties mattered to your relative.

In your own life, you carry on the astrological DNA by being involved in one or more groups. If you have three or more horoscope factors, you will be strongly Aquarian and may resemble your relative.

IC in Pisces Sign

The family member who influenced you most was mysterious, secretive and hard to know. This person may be a shadowy figure in the family past who was elusive or slippery in some way.

Sometimes you discover this relative of yours was in the navy, a sailor, or just a surfer or angler. This added to his/her ‘far away’ personality! It is also common to find drug or alcohol issues with a relative if you have a Pisces IC.

This may be the branch on the family tree that nobody ever felt they understood fully or knew properly. Depending on your personal horoscope you will either be strongly Piscean (if you have three or more factors there) or this imprint will just be a small part of your overall character.

Pisces on the IC suggests family secrets, woven around this person, whom you may resemble.