You ever seen that GTA meme about embarking on a journey once more? Enlightenment follows:

Now you have learned all you need to know about the IC from GTA. Nah, I'm pulling your string. Only thing to be known here is you are about to be hit with the same picture as before:

This time, we are interested in the IC which is opposite the MC. The IC occupies the 4th house, where the number four is, whereas the MC, which we all ready covered, occupies the 10th.

The fourth house is usually presided over by the sign of Cancer. It has to do with a quiet place in a person's chart that they go to receive some kind of nurturing out of the sight of the public. It is a very private area, and has much to do with the mother and early childhood as well as the psychological "roots". We find that Leo occupies the house in this chart, and so we could conclude that people like it to be a) sunny in Austin, which I'm sure is true, and b) probably there are large, showy houses since Leo likes to show off. The danger in this position is that Leo can mistake pride for security. Leo typically governs the fifth house and is solar. It has to do with how individuality expresses. Here, the individual is very individual, and wants a castle to themselves.

Since I've never been to Austin, Texas, maybe some of you that have been can say whether Austin has a particular glut of large homes. If not big houses, mothers who are "larger than life". If not mothers who are larger than life, then people who are very boastful about their family and are "proud of it". A good expression of this energy is a willingness to do what is necessary to defend the home. A bad expression is to defend the home against anybody else that doesn't "fit in" with whatever the Leo sign has decided is "outside".

What's unusual about this placement at this time concerns all the solar eclipses parading through the nation which has a tendency to really "dampen" the Leo party. Nothing bums Leo out like killing the sun and that's exactly what an eclipse is known to do. Back in the days when people worshiped the sun, the memo was that you better be finding some human sacrifices to pay the electric bill or the sun is possibly not coming back on. The not distant Mayans (relative to Austin) partook of this ritual, and got good enough at it that they could cut out the sacrifice's heart fast enough for the person to see their own beating cardiac tissue in someone else's hands before expiration. Did I mention that Leo tends to have ruler-ship over the heart? If not, now seems like the time.

On that light note, it seems like this is as good as any place to halt the examination of this house. Austin is a "little weird" here in that they have a solar influence in what is typically a lunar house. Maybe some locals can tell me whether the speculation offered here is true concerning Austin. It'd be interesting to know if the observation squares with the geography.