month" from the fading leaves. To the Anglo-Saxons it was known as the Winter-fylleth (moon), since Winter was
supposed to begin with the October Full Moon.
November. A month of 30 days, the eleventh in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, the ninth in the Roman calendar.
The Roman winter began on November 11th, and was celebrated on the 13th by a sacred banquet in honor of Jupiter,
the Epulum Jovis. The proposal of the Senate to name it Tiberius, was vetoed by the Emperor, with a question as to
what they would propose when it came to the thirteenth Caesar. All Saints Day is the 1st, AH Souls Day, the 2nd, and
St. Andrew's Day, the 30th.
December. (L. Decem, ten). A month of 31 days, the twelfth in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, the tenth in the
Roman calendar. The Saturnalia, or feast of Saturn, was celebrated in this month. During the reign of Commodus it
was temporarily styled Amazonius, in honor of his mistress whose portrait he had had painted as an Amazon. The
Saxons called it the Winter month; also the Holy month, from the fact that Christmas fell within it.
MONTH. Sidereal, 27.3217 d.; Synodical, 29.5306 d.
Motion. According to Newton's law of motion, all bodies traveling in elliptical orbits move faster at certain portions of
their orbits, and slower in others. It is therefore important to observe whether the travel between two successive days is
greater or less than their mean motion. In erecting a Figure for a specified hour it is necessary to reduce this to hourly
motion, to determine the exact position occupied by the faster-moving bodies.
To Reduce Daily Motion to Hourly Motion Since 1° or 60 m., divided by 24 h. equals 2½; therefore: degrees per day
X 2½ = minutes per hour; and minutes per day X 2½ = seconds per hour. Thus: Moon's travel of 14° p. d. X 2½ = 35'
p. h.; and 24' less p. d. = 1' less p. h., or 34' p. h.; Mercury's travel of 2° 7' p. d. (computed as 2° X 2.5 = 5'; and 7' X 2.5
= 17.5") gives a rate of 5' 17.5" p. h.
Movable Signs. Leading or Cardinal Signs. v. Signs.
Mundane Aspects. Those formed by planets occupying cusps, whereby it can be said that from the 10th to the 12th
cusps is a Mundane sextile, though it may be as little as 50° or as much as 80°. v. Aspects.
Mundane Astrology. Mundane Interpretations. An interpretation of Astrology in terms of world trends, the destinies
of nations and of large groups of individuals, based on an analysis of the effects of Equinoxes, Solstices, New Moons,
Eclipses, planetary conjunctions, and similar celestial phenomena; as distinguished from Natal Astrology, specifically
applicable to an individual birth horoscope.
Mundane Directions, or Directions in Mundo. These are based solely upon the axial rotation of the Earth in relation
to the circle of observation whereby planets arc carried clockwise through the Houses of the Figure, from east to west,
forming aspects to the Ascendant, Midheaven, Sun and Moon. Aspects formed by the opposite or Converse Motion are
also employed. The use of spherical trigonometry and of logarithms is necessary to reliable use of this so-called
Primary System of Directing. Knowledge of the exact place, hour and minute is also essential.
Mundane Parallel, or Parallel in Mundo. A progressed position in which a Significator and a Promittor occupy