"movable feast" known as Easter, around which the Ecclesiastical calendar is arranged. The
letters of successive years rotate in the reverse order: on Leap year the preceding letter applies
only to January and February dates, the next preceding letter applying to the remainder of the
year. For example, 1929, F; 1930, E; 1931, D; 1932, January-February, C; March-December, B;
1933, A; 1934, G; and so on.
Doryphory. A Ptolemaic term describing a planet which serves as a sort of bodyguard or
John the Baptist to the Sun, rising shortly before it - either in the same or the contiguous Sign.
The doryphory of the Moon similarly rises after it. The best meaning of the word is
spearbearer.Double-bodied or Bicorporeal Signs. Gemini, Sagittarius and Pisces; and by some authorities,
Virgo (v. Signs). So called because their symbols represent two Figures: Gemini, the Twins;
Sagittarius, half-man, half-animal; and Pisces, the two fishes. They are presumed to signify a
dual nature. On the cusp of the Seventh House it suggests the possibility of more than one
marriage; on the cusp of the Fifth, the possibility of twin offspring.
Dragon's Head. Dragon's Tail. v. Moon's Nodes.Dumb Signs. Mute Signs: Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces, v. Signs. One of them on the Ascendant
and Mercury afflicted, or Mercury aspected by a malefic posited in one of them, is cited as the
possible cause of a speech impediment.
Duration of Life. v. Hyleg.
Dwa-da-shamsa. v. Signs, Subdivisions of.
Dysis. The western angle or point of setting. v. Houses.