Encyclopedia of Astrology

Encyclopedia of Astrology Nicholas deVore The Philosophical Library, June 1947. Retyped with additional 'Apolo notes' and recons ...

A Accidental Ascendant. A device employed by Evangeline Adams whereby to draw Horary interpretations from a natal Figure. In app ...

Ascending Node in a Geocentric Figure. The line of advantage runs between the cusps of the third decanates of the Third and Nint ...

Air Signs. The mental or intellectual signs: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius. Considered collectively, sometimes termed the Air asterism ...

present day astrologers. Altitude. Elevation above the horizon, measured by the arc of a vertical circle. A planet is at meridia ...

their effects at their meridian altitude than when rising. Angstrom. A ten-billionth of a metre. Employed as a unit for measurin ...

Aphelion. v. Orbit. Apheta. Prorogator. The planet or place that exercises an influence over the life and death of the native. v ...

Appulse. The near approach of one orbital body to another - a conjunction; the culmination at or crossing of the meridian. Appli ...

Jupiter's position is the Pomegranate, or Point of Increase. Saturn's position is the Hour Glass, or Point of Fatality. This Poi ...

Taking the Venus position as an Ascendant, the Moon position is the Point of the Mother. Saturn's position is the Point of Fortu ...

With the Venus-degree on the Ascendant, the cusp of the Seventh House is the Point of Marriage. Marc Jones suggests that with th ...

Fatality: Asc plus Saturn minus Sun. Catastrophe: Asc plus Uranus minus Sun. Treachery: Asc plus Neptune minus Sun. Organization ...

Marriage: Asc plus cusp of Seventh House minus Venus. Divorce: Asc plus Venus minus cusp of Seventh. Most Perilous Year: Asc plu ...

the Sun to the Moon's radical position. Major transits to the Moon will be operative in one sense through the Sign and House of ...

Aries. The first sign of the zodiac. v. Signs. Armillary Sphere. A skeleton sphere suggested by concentric rings which represent ...

Ascension, Signs of Long. Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius. (v. Signs.) Ascension, Signs of Short. Capricorn to G ...

Forming, is said of the conditions of motion which are bringing two bodies within each other's sphere of influence, whereby an e ...

Square 3 90 84° 94° Trine 4 120 113° 125° Sesquiquadrate 4½ 135 132° 137° Quincunx 5 150 148° 151° Opposition 6 180 170° 186° Na ...

influence of the second aspect. The term was much used by ancient writers, but unfortunately has been neglected by modern astrol ...

and are the ones commonly employed in delineation. Because of the alternation of signs of long and short ascension throughout th ...