regarded as somewhat misleading on the ground that it is in conflict with the modern concept
of Man as a free moral agent. v. Free Will.Feminine Signs. The even-numbered signs: Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn, and
Pisces. (v. Signs.)Feral. A wild or undomesticated animal. A term anciently employed whereby inference was
made to the bestial nature of those with an Ascendant in Leo or the latter half of Sagittarius;
also those with either Luminary so placed and with the malefics in Angles. The Moon was
said to be feral when void of course (q.v.).Figure. An astrological or Celestial Figure, variously called Geniture, Map, Scheme, Chart,
Theme, Mirror of Heaven, Nativity or Horoscope, as cast, erected or drawn by modern
astrologers, consists of a circle of the heavens, representing the 360° of the Earth's orbit,
divided into twelve arcs - resembling a wheel of twelve spokes. These arcs may represent
Signs of 30° each beginning at the Spring equinoctial point, or Houses of an indeterminate
number of degrees beginning at an ascending degree. A Solar Figure, used where a specific
moment of birth is not known, employs the Sun's degree as the point of beginning, or
Ascendant. The Houses or geo-arcs, based upon the degree rising in the east at the specific
moment for which the Figure is cast, supposedly represent the number of degrees which pass
over the horizon in two hours from that particular longitude and latitude and on that day. The
Sign-divisions, or heliarcs, are thus subdivisions of the Earth's annual orbit round the Sun,
while the House-divisions, or geo-arcs, are subdivisions of the daily orbit of a particular point
on the Earth's surface around the Earth's axis.Most of the difficulties concerning astrological terminology result from the fact that this circle
represents the celestial sphere, subdivided according to three different systems at one and the
same time. This paradox ceases to baffle only when the one who employs the map learns to read
and interpret it in each of the three ways, consecutively rather than simultaneously.
With the Earth as a center of reference, its annual orbit extends impersonally from the point of
the Vernal Equinox, in successive 30° arcs, each corresponding to one sign of the zodiac.
Therefore, if for a given day, month and year, the planets are placed in certain degrees of certain
signs, this placement remains valid no matter at what point on the earth the observer is located.
If now we confine ourself to a given individual located at a given point on the Earth, and erect a
map showing the Sun at the sunrise point, choosing the Sun as the point of commencement of a
circle or experience, because it is a permanently powerful center of energy radiation, our twelve
30° arcs will be measured from the degree the Sun occupied on that day. Such a set of arcs
would be applicable to any one born with the Sun in the same degree; but when the places of the
remaining planets are inserted it will apply only to one born also on the same day of the same