Neptune IC line
Dreaming at home. The Neptune IC line (Imum Coeli) runs through the places where Neptune was at the bottom of its daily arc when you were born.
♆Neptune lines· Imum Coeli
What the Neptune IC line means
With Neptune beneath you, home becomes a sanctuary and a fog. Imagination, retreat, sea air, spiritual practice and quiet creativity thrive. Practical matters of the house, boundaries with family, and knowing exactly where you stand do not. It suits a retreat or a studio more than a headquarters.
The stock complaints about a Neptune IC home are oddly practical: damp, a leaking gutter, a boundary with the neighbours nobody quite agreed, a landlord who's hard to reach. Water and vagueness both belong to Neptune, and on the IC they get into the fabric of the house. Look at the roof and the paperwork with more care than usual.
Family edges blur here too. Relatives drift in and stay longer than planned, you become the one who looks after everyone, or the family past turns rosier in memory than it was. For writers, meditators and anyone who needs a year of quiet, few lines are kinder, and a cottage by the water on a Neptune IC is a long-standing favourite. As the base for a busy family with a full diary, it tends to lose things: keys, letters, the thread of who's doing what.
Where it runs
The Neptune IC line runs from pole to pole too, half a world away from the Neptune MC line. Everywhere on it, Neptune was on the meridian at the bottom of its daily arc when you were born.
Distance and birth time
A line is a band, not a wall. Zenith Map's scores count a line in full on it, about 60% at 250 km, about 14% at 500 km and not at all beyond 1,000 km. Astrocartographers draw the edge in different places; the methodology page gives the reasoning for this one.
Every line in a chart moves west by a quarter of a degree of longitude for each minute later the birth: about 28 km at the equator and 14 km at 60° latitude. A time rounded to the nearest quarter hour can put your Neptune IC line up to about 200 km from where it's drawn, which is why the map draws bands when you say the time is approximate.
Questions
Should I live on my Neptune IC line?
As a retreat, often yes. A Neptune IC home tends to feel like a sanctuary, good for rest, creative work, spiritual practice and living near water. As a busy family base it's harder, because practical matters at home and boundaries with relatives blur.
Does a Neptune IC line help writers and artists?
It is one of the gentler lines for quiet creative work done at home over months: writing, composing, painting. The Neptune IC has a long reputation for feeding imagination and inwardness. It favours the making more than the business side, so deadlines and admin may need more structure there than elsewhere.
Related lines
The other Neptune lines: Neptune MC, Neptune ASC, Neptune DSC.
Imum Coeli lines of the other planets: Sun IC, Moon IC, Mercury IC, Venus IC, Mars IC, Jupiter IC, Saturn IC, Uranus IC, Pluto IC.
Neptune lines are drawn with Pro; the free map shows the Sun, Moon, Venus and Jupiter.