Encyclopedia of Astrology

his agreement or contract; and when both turn retrograde there will be an annulment by mutual consent. Similar effects have been ...

Sesquiquadrate (135°) Inversion of a Semi-square, and deemed equally unfortunate but less powerful. Quincunx (150°). The inversi ...

for adjustment. There follows a condensed interpretation of the aspects: According to the ancient philosophers two systems of fo ...

Aspectarian. A chronological list of all aspects formed during a specified period. Most astrology magazines acrry an Aspectarian ...

Astrology. The science which treats of the influence upon human character of cosmic forces emanating from celestial bodies. It h ...

Agricultural: an application of Astrology to the planting and the harvesting of crops. Astromancy. A system of divination by mea ...

Aurora Borealis, Northern Lights. Scientists associate the phenomena with unusual sun-spot activity, and astronomers are working ...

B Baal. (Lord). Among the Phoenicians the chief male divinity who appears to have symbolized the Sun, more particularly the Sun ...

Barren Signs. Gemini, Leo and Virgo. The Moon in Sagittarius, and Aquarius is also said to signify a tendency toward barrenness. ...

bicorporeal. v. Signs. Bi-Quintile v. Aspect Birth Moment What is generally accepted as the true moment of birth is the moment o ...

universal compassion, charity, love, self-sacrifice, poverty, and contentment with one's lot. His faith was never enforced by fi ...

C Cabala, Cabalism; also Kabalism, kabalistic. (1) The Cabalists assume that every word of the inspired writings embodies a secr ...

recording the passing of time, their number is legion; but their correction always comes from the astronomical observatory. The ...

The Egyptian calendar divided the year into twelve months of 30 days each, with five supplemental days following each twelfth mo ...

5712........ Oct. 1, 1951 5713........ Sept. 20, 1952 5714........ Sept. 1O, 1953 5715........ Sept. 28, 1954 5716........ Sept. ...

A century later Aloysius Lilius, a Verona physician and astronomer and doubtless an astrologer, worked out what he believed to b ...

only disturb the ecclesiastical calendar, but most of the proposed plans would destroy the continuity of the days of the week an ...

the fifth century B.C., the Greeks celebrated it at the Winter Solstice, as did the Romans with a festival dedicated to Saturn - ...

Celestial Sphere. If one pictures the sphere we call the Earth, enlarged to embrace the visible heavens, the resulting concept c ...

Equator. The planets which are posited in these signs pass obliquely through the semi-arc of the Ecliptic to the Mid- heaven - n ...