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ences of both the AFA and the United Astrolo-

gy Conference (UAC), as well as at Matrix

itself. The conferences were always very well

attended and participation was very active,

reaching incendiary levels at times.

—Michael Erlewine

MATUTINE(MATUTINAL)

Stars that rise in the early morning before the

Sun are referred to as matutine. The planets,

particularly the Moon, Mercury, and Venus, can

be matutinal.

MEANMOTION

Because celestial bodies move in elliptical

orbits, their speed varies depending upon their

location. Mean motion refers to their average

speed.

MEDEA

Medea, asteroid 212 (the 212th asteroid to be

discovered, on February 6, 1880), is approxi-

mately 132 kilometers in diameter and has an

orbital period of 5.5 years. Medea was named

after the princess who helped Jason obtain the

Golden Fleece. J. Lee Lehman associates this

asteroid with planning strategy, as well as with bringing together seemingly opposed

emotions. Jacob Schwartz gives Medea’s astrological influence as “intense emotions

and boding with extreme love or hate or both simultaneously.”

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.

Room, Adrian. Dictionary of Astronomical Names.London: Routledge, 1988.

Schwartz, Jacob. Asteroid Name Encyclopedia.St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1995.

MEDICALASTROLOGY

There are two completely different components to medical astrology: one that belongs

in nativities, and one that is done through interrogations. Both parts have their gene-

sis in Hellenistic astrology.

Matutine (Matutinal)

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An image of a zodiacal man representing medical
astrology with the rulership of the signs over his body
and organs from the late fifteenth century, Germany.
Reproduced by permission of Fortean Picture Library.