Encyclopedia of Astrology

CHARLES A. JAYNE, JR. Precession of the Equinoxes. In a recent astronomical work it is defined as "that westward march of the ...

Predictive Astrology. The branch of Astrology that deals with "Directions," the methods by which future influences are ascertain ...

student. All Primary Arcs which can be formed between the sensitive points in a Nativity during an entire lifetime are formed du ...

To direct the Ascendant to an aspect with a promittor first bring the longitude of the point of aspect to the horizon. This can ...

Signs, hence the annual Profection extends from Cancer 15° to Leo 15°. The Moon and the Sun thus become the chronocrators for th ...

which marks off the hours, while the latter are like the long hand which marks off the exact time." Although Alan Leo wrote an i ...

Sun, Moon, Ascendant and M.C. Thus the p.a. of Venus in 19°, Aries to the Sun in 5° Aries falls upon 21° Pisces where its influe ...

sciences by unprincipled charlatans who use their little knowledge for personal gain. His contributions under this heading are a ...

It is apparent that astrologers, even in his day, realized the increased strength of planets by virtue of elevation into the Twe ...

What Sepharial particularly overlooked was the fact that Ptolemy knew nothing about proper motion, and that before the Sun did n ...

planets that were thereby configurated, and that the distinction was only a means of determining which end of the aspect was the ...

of the territory they transit - but Ptolemy knew naught about Transits. Since the Sun and Moon rose to the greatest third-dimens ...

experiment, and observation, we have learned how each planet's influence externalizes; and whether it does so because its moist ...

reasonable to expect that correct explanations of and justifications for observed operations should come from a man, however bri ...

Q Quadrantine Lunation. An ill-advised term sometimes applied to the conjunctions, squares and oppositions of the Sun and Moon. ...

Quesited. Employed in horary astrology to indicate the person or thing that is the subject of an inquiry. Quincunx. An aspect of ...

R Radical. 1. Pertaining to the radix, or horoscope of birth. 2. In Horary astrology, a term employed to indicate a figure which ...

Parallel. (v. Aspects.) Rays, Under the. In astrology a planet is "under the rays" of another when it is within orbs of an aspec ...

study of Cycles (q.v.) but as a means of erecting a chart for remote periods for which Ephemerides are unavailable. A fairly acc ...

Venus-Pluto...............1.........310........494 Mars-Jupiter..............2.........106........237 Mars-Saturn............... ...