Imum Coeli

noun

The point where the ecliptic crosses the northern meridian, said to represent the deep subconscious.

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Meanings

nounImum Coeli (uncountable)
  1. uncountableastrologyThe point where the ecliptic crosses the northern meridian, said to represent the deep subconscious.

    Appropriately, perhaps, it would also be here that they would make the fatal discovery which would bring them, inexorable as the Zodiac's wheel, to their Imum Cœli. . . .

    2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 457

Origin

  1. Latinimum coeli“bottom of the sky”
  2. EnglishImum Coeli

From Latin imum coeli (“bottom of the sky”).

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