IC is the beginning of fourth house and it’s short for imum coeli. it’s basically your roots—where you come from, how you grew up, and it’s also representative of your parents. there’s debates on whether it represents mother or father, but from my experience from reading people’s

charts, i’ve found it’s a good indicator of the father, despite the fourth house/cancer being associated with the mother. the opposite of the IC is the MC, medium coeli, or the midheaven, which is not the topic of this thread. but they’re connected!