Saturnalia. The Roman festival of Saturn which annually on Dec. 17 began a week of feasting.
Satellite. A planet or moon that revolves about another. The Moon is a satellite of the Earth; and according to
Newton, both are satellites of the Sun. In modern Astrology it is confined to a body which revolves around one
of the planets in our solar system.
Satellitium. Stellium. A group of five or more planets in one Sign or House. In an angle it portends great
changes of fortune, the good and the bad coming in patches. Heavy falls are succeeded in due course by a
spectacular comeback, and vice versa. Such persons usually have many acquaintances, but few real friends.
They can hardly fail of considerable recognition at some periods of their lives.
Scorpio. The eighth sign of the zodiac. v. Signs.
Secondary Progressions. Zodiacal aspects formed by the orbital motions of the planets on successive days
after birth, each day accounted the equivalent of one year of life. Aspects are calculated to the birth positions of
the luminaries, planets and angles, and mutual aspects are formed between the progressed planets. The
application of this system of forecasting future conditioning that may be expected to crystallize in events,
involves the directing of the Midheaven, Ascendant and the Sun by their natural progress in the heavens after
birth. The Sun and the Midheaven progress at an average rate of 59'08" per day (the so-called "Naibod Arc"),
to form aspects to the radical positions of the planets, while the planets move at varying rates to form aspects to
the radical positions of the Significators. The most dependable factor in Secondary Progressions is the
advancing of the progressed Moon, forming aspects to the radical and progressed places of the planets and to
the places of the Significators, which are interpreted according to the places in which the aspects fall by Sign
and House.
With specific reference to the progressions of the Moon it is generally considered: that such aspects produce
strong though gradual effects of about one month's duration; that the month when the progressed Moon is
approaching a square to her own radical place is generally marked by accidents and infirmities, the next
preceding semi-square usually giving an indication of the nature of the crisis or physical ailment that can be
expected to develop; that trine and sextile aspects of the transitory and of the progressed Moon to the radical
Moon generally outline favorable days and months; and that square and opposition aspects also strongly
influence and that adversely, forming critical periods around the 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th day and year.
In general it is held that directions act in terms of the Radix and that when the Nativity is unfortunate no
favorable direction can have the same efficacy as an adverse one; and vice versa when the Nativity is fortunate.
In other words, the accidental good cannot overcome the radical evil. (v. Radix System.)
The revised Sepharial Dictionary defines Secondary Progressions somewhat misleadingly as those based upon
the progress of the Moon in the zodiac. However, the aspects formed by the Moon in the Secondary system are
important, and some authorities hold that unless they are of the same nature as the Primary Directions, hence
tend to strengthen their operation, the primary directions will have little effect; but when they do coincide, a
decided influence will be traceable in the life of the person whose chart is under consideration. According to