Encyclopedia of Astrology

tower of Belus, and the image of Belus. They did not worship the stars as God, who they thought of as too great to be concerned ...

coming of the Messiah with the tribulations to be visited on the Jews (Daniel ix:25). As Daniel was a Chaldean student (Daniel i ...

49, 54, 56, and 63 years. The most portentous are those of the 49th and 63rd years, which are doubly climacterical, 7x7 and 9x7. ...

Pisces: Pure white and glistening. The color of the fixed stars were taken as an index to their nature: as, a star of the color ...

was visible in broad daylight - even at noon. LIST OF PERIODIC COMETS The following lists of comets afford a basis for their fur ...

Halley's Comet, 1835 and 1910, is the most historic comet. Every appearance has been traced back to 240 B.C. The head of Holmes' ...

Conception. According to Ptolemy the sex as well as the incidents relating to a child, prior to its birth, may be deduced from t ...

the woods for five years, until Zeus translated the lot of them - the sisters, Orion, and his dogs Sirius and Betelguese - into ...

Aquarius. The Waterbearer. A constellation mentioned by Aratus in the third century B.C. Ptolemy catalogued 47 stars in the area ...

Equuleus.............. Sep. Eridanus.............. Dec. Fornax................ Dec. Gemini................ Feb. Hercules........ ...

Contact. (a) Usually applied to an aspect from a transiting or directed planet to a sensitive degree created by a planet at birt ...

Cosmic Conditioning. Ancient man was convinced that his destiny upon earth was ruled by the divine power that placed the stars i ...

the Grand Cross tends to diffusion. Cosmic Philosophy, or Cosmism. A theory of cosmic evolution originated by John Fiske and adv ...

Crepuscule. Twilight. Used in Primary Directions. Crescent. Said of the inferior planets as well as of the Moon, when less than ...

Fixed Zodiac, and despite the fact that with the outer planets the difference between the tropical and the sidereal periods beco ...

1365 occurred on November 1, at 7° Scorpio. Dr. Lee has thus confirmed, regarding the Jupiter-Saturn rhythm, that when the conju ...

Pluto cycle of nearly 500 years finds Neptune and Pluto in nearly the same position. Since five revolutions of Pluto nearly equa ...

Uranus) but with religion and philosophy. Neptune indicates the mystical aspect: the revelation of a higher universal and mystic ...

The significance of the Saturn-Uranus cycle for the political economy appears clear, especially at and near their cyclic opposit ...

obliquities of planetary orbits; (b) the distorting effect, in a geocentric frame of reference, of the Earth's motion and positi ...