HORSE
The Horse is one of the 12 animals of the Chi-
nese zodiac. It refers to one of the 12 earthly
branches, which are used in Chinese astrology,
together with the 10 heavenly stems. Such a
branch designates one day every 12 days: the
days are named according to a sexagesimal (60)
cycle, made of 10 series of 12 branches.
With his fiery nature, the Horse quickly
gets worked up. Happy and not complicated, a lit-
tle naive and sometimes weak, this socialite likes
to entertain and to be entertained; he is appreci-
ated everywhere. This enthusiastic worker is
ambitious, persuasive, and a great improviser. He
often does well in his plans, but he is not noted for
his inordinate intelligence. He likes travelling,
mostly abroad, and has a rather fickle nature.—Michele DelemmeHORUS
Horus, asteroid 1,924 (the 1,924th asteroid to
be discovered, on September 24, 1960), is
approximately 8.2 kilometers in diameter and
has an orbital period of 3.6 years. Horus was
named after an Egyptian sky-god who in later
mythology became the son of Osiris. J. Lee
Lehman associates Horus with “far-sightedness
and avenging nature.” Jacob Schwartz gives the astrological significance of this aster-
oid as “synthesis resolving thesis and antithesis (Osiris and Isis); farsightedness.”Sources:
Kowal, Charles T. Asteroids: Their Nature and Utilization.Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Ellis
Horwood Limited, 1988.
Lehman, J. Lee. The Ultimate Asteroid Book.West Chester, PA: Whitford Press, 1988.
Schwartz, Jacob. Asteroid Name Encyclopedia.St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1995.HOT
The signs are numbered from 1 to 12 according to their order in the zodiac (e.g., from
Aries, 1, to Pisces, 12). Hot and cold made up one of the sets of categories utilized in
premodern physics, and the ancients classified all odd-numbered signs (all fire and air
signs) as hot. Traditionally, the Sun and Mars were also considered to be hot, while
Jupiter and Venus were regarded as warm (an intermediate category). The terms hot
and cold are rarely used in modern astrology.Horse
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An engraving of the famous horoscope of Jesus Christ’s
birthdate from Ebenezer Sibly’s A New and Complete
Illustration of the Occult Sciences,1790. Reproduced by
permission of Fortean Picture Library.