Encyclopedia of Astrology

PLANET..........JUPITER........SATURN.......NORTH NODE...... SOUTH NODE Exaltation:.....Cancer 15º.....Libra 21º....Gemini 3º... ...

Moon......Cancer........sextiles.....Taurus Mercury...Gemini........trines.......Aquarius Venus.....Taurus........sextiles.....P ...

To distinguish between these dual rulerships, the positive signs were called Day Houses, and the negative signs, the Night House ...

Saturn - for what reason we are not informed." It rules the South because Venus brings South winds, and Southeast because Saturn ...

which come to naught in case the original premise is rejected. The Primary System, so called, is thus a calculation of the numbe ...

assumption that since with each successive year the Sun becomes the predominating influence on the unfolding destiny of the indi ...

clearly indicated and predicted. The method is worth the close attention of all students. All planets act from the Sign and Hous ...

Distance in the heavens is measured in Right Ascension or Oblique Ascension, or along the Ecliptic, the Equator, or the Prime Ve ...

"movable feast" known as Easter, around which the Ecclesiastical calendar is arranged. The letters of successive years rotate in ...

E Eagle. (1) Aquilla. A small constellation located approx. Capricorn 29°; sometimes called the Vulture. (2) Frequently associat ...

number, epact, and Dominical letter (q.v.). Eccentric. An eccentric orbit is one formed about a centre, which itself is revolvin ...

favorably. Those on the places of the Sun, Moon, Ascendant, or M.C. and on the malefics are, however, unfavorable influences. Fr ...

eclipse limit, a solar eclipse may occur; within 15° 21', the minor solar eclipse unit, a solar eclipse will occur; within 11° 1 ...

represents what is sometimes called "approximate eclipse conditions," and can become an important factor if it falls exactly upo ...

Eclipse of Thales. May 28, 585 B.C., predicted by Thales of Miletus, and which stopped a battle in the war between the Medes and ...

conception of the project, from which to estimate the probable success or failure of the plan, most of the important particulars ...

when the Moon is free from any serious affliction and - in case the matter is desired to be accomplished quickly - swift in moti ...

Times for all Manner of Works," contained in his Astrology Restored (edition of 1653), to be consulted in a few of the libraries ...

Elongation. (a) The angular distance of an inferior, or interior, planet from the Sun, as viewed from the Earth. The maximum elo ...

of excess of a calendar month over a lunar month is the monthly epact. The epacts differ from the Golden Numbers, from which the ...