49, 54, 56, and 63 years. The most portentous are those of the 49th and 63rd years, which are doubly climacterical, 7x7 and
9x7. When evil directions coincide these are generally deemed to be fatal. The 63rd year is called the Grand Climacteric,
and the general presumption is that more persons die in their 63rd year than in any other from 50 to 80.
Climate. The precursors of the modern Tables of Houses. They were calculated for every 30' shortening of the diurnal and
nocturnal semi-arc as one proceeds north or south from the Equator.
Cold planets. Moon, Saturn. v. Planets, Hot, Slow.
Cold Signs. v. Signs.
Collection of light. When a planet is in aspect to two other bodies which are not within orbs of each other, a collection of
light results through the action of the intermediary planet. It denotes that the affairs represented by the two bodies whose
light has been thus collected, will be forwarded by a third person, described by the intermediary planet, providing both
bodies receive the intermediary in one of their dignities. Used in Horary Astrology. Other authors confine it to a larger
planet aspected by two smaller, with the interpretation that if the smaller do not receive the larger in one of their dignities,
the intermediary will feel no interest in the affair, nor will it prosper.
Colors. In the age when an astrologer presumed to find in a chart the answer to every manner of question that could be
propounded he frequently undertook to tell, for example, which cock would win in a cockfight merely by indicating the
color associated with the strongest planet in an Horary Figure. It also was considered an index to the coloring of an
individual's eyes, hair, and complexion, as well as the clothes he should wear. Thus the following color chart adduced from
Wilson, who professed not to take it too seriously:
Sun: Yellow, inclined to purple.
Moon: White, or a light mixture, perhaps spotted.
Mercury: Azure to light blue.
Venus: White and purple.
Mars: Fiery red.
Jupiter: Red and green mixture.
Saturn: Black.
To the Signs these colors are attributed:
Aries: White and red.
Taurus: Red and citron mixture.
Gemini: Red and white mixture.
Cancer: Green or russet.
Leo: Golden or red.
Virgo: Black with blue splotches.
Libra: Dark crimson, swarthy or black.
Scorpio: Dark brown.
Sagittarius: Olive or light green.
Capricorn: Dark brown or black.
Aquarius: Sky blue.