their effects at their meridian altitude than when rising.
Angstrom. A ten-billionth of a metre. Employed as a unit for measuring the wave lengths of
light. Ten angstrom equal one millimicron. v. Wave Length.
Angular: said of a planet in an angle (q.v.) or in an angular House. The angular Houses bear a
correspondence to the Cardinal Signs, and planets therein posited are materially strengthened,
though whether beneficially or adversely depends upon the nature of the planet itself as also
upon the nature of the aspects it receives from other planets in the Scheme.
Angular Velocity. The angle through which a planet sweeps in a unit of time. Technically, the
daily motion of a planet, expressed in degrees and minutes of arc, is its Angular Velocity.
Anomaly. The angular distance of a planet from its perihelion or aphelion.
Anipathies. The unaccountable aversions and antagonisms people feel toward each other when
positions in their Nativities are in conflict. Among the causes of such conflict are the luminaries
in dissociate Signs, or in inharmonious aspect to one another; the Ascendants in opposition
Signs; the Infortunes conjunct or in inharmonious aspect to the luminaries, or to each other, or in
opposition from angular Houses.
Sometimes loosely applied to planets seen in an inharmonious relationship through an adverse
aspect, whereat they are considered to bear an anipathy to one another.
Antipathy. Disharmony of two bodies, usually planets, which rule or are exalted in opposite
Signs. For example, Saturn ruling Capricorn has an antipathy for the Moon, ruling Cancer.
Antiscion. As modernly used in the so-called Uranian Astrology, it is the reflex position of a
planet's birth position, in that degree on the opposite side of the Cancer-Capricorn axis, of which
either 0º Cancer or 0º Capricorn is the midpoint. For example, the antiscion of a planet at 14º
Capricorn is at 16º Sagittarius, which point becomes effective when occupied by another planet,
or one in transit or by direction. As first used by Ptolemy the term is applied to two planets
which have the same declination on the same side of the equator. One in the same declination on
the opposite side was termed a contra antiscion. v. Parallel.
Antisedentia. An older term descriptive of retrograde motion.