The Astrology Book

THEASTROLOGYBOOK [447] Merriman, Raymond A. An illustration of the great wizard Merlin with Vivien. Reproduced by permission of ...

and used by banks, financial institutions, investors, and traders throughout the world since 1982. Merriman’s contributions and ...

compute planetary and calendric positions. During the post-Classic period, a time dur- ing which the Maya were in decline and th ...

In the accompanying table, each of the signs, called tonallyby the Aztecs, rules a single day in the order, from left to right. ...

Mesoamerican astrologers mathematically worked out the cycles of the visible planets and were able to compute their positions in ...

Scofield, Bruce, and Angela Cordova. The Aztec Circle of Destiny.2nd ed. Amherst, MA: One Reed Publications, 2002. Tedlock, Barb ...

METEOROLOGICALASTROLOGY(ASTROMETEOROLOGY) Correlations between celestial events and the weather have been a longstanding con- ce ...

Soller, Nancy. “Weather Watching with an Ephemeris.” In The Astrology of the Macrocosm. Edited by Joan McEvers. St. Paul, MN: Ll ...

MIDPOINT A midpoint, as the name implies, is a point halfway between two other points. For example, the midpoint between a plane ...

period immediately prior to the official conver- sion of the Roman Empire to the religion of Jesus. As such, Mithraism left its ...

equinoxes by postulating that a previously unknown god was responsible for the grad- ual movement of Earth’s axis (the stars and ...

MNEMOSYNE Mnemosyne, asteroid 57 (the 57th asteroid to be discovered, on September 22, 1860), is approximately 116 kilometers in ...

derived from the Greek word for the Fates. In an astrological chart, Moira’s location by sign and house indicates an area of lif ...

Latin word for moon is luna,from the word leuk,meaning “bright” or “shining.” The Moon is visible because it reflects light from ...

tility, because they protect women and children, and the end of life. A quick, painless death was often attributed to the blessi ...

astrology. Water, like the Moon is responsive and adaptable. Just as water assumes the shape of any container that it is put in, ...

There are 27 lunar Nakshatras, or lunar mansions, that describe the monthly sidereal motion of the Moon. The Moon stays approxim ...

Sources: Campion, Nicholas, and Steve Eddy. The New Astrology: The Art and Science of the Stars.New Pomfret, VT: Trafalgar Squar ...

celestial matter and proposed three layers of earth, which corresponded in reverse order to the three regions of the air. He cri ...

Astrologia Gallicais divided into 26 books. After an autobiographical preface and another preface advocating astrology, the book ...