Jupiter: Tin.
Saturn: Lead.
Uranus: Radium, uranium.
Neptune: Lithium, platinum.
Pluto: Tungsten, plutonium.
Planetary Motions.
Converse. Said of a progressed or directed motion to a point of aspect, in a clockwise
direction or opposite to the order of the Signs. The term is frequently employed in a
contradictory manner, in the sense of the reverse of the accustomed motion. In the case of a
Secondary Progression that would mean a clockwise motion, since the accustomed motion of
a planet in orbit is counter-clockwise. In Primary Directions the apparent motion of the
planets and the House-cusps is clockwise, resulting from the counter-clockwise motion of the
Earth's periphery. The entire doctrine of converse motion is debatable.
Direct The true motion of the planets in the order of the Signs, or counter-clockwise, within
the Zodiac: a narrow band that parallels the Earth's path around the Sun. As applied to
progressed or directed motion it is the opposite of converse motion. As to transits, it is the
opposite of retrograde. (q.v.)
Diurnal (by day) A diurnal planet is one that was above the horizon at the time for which the
Figure was cast. Such planets are said to be less passive. The Diurnal arc of a planet is the
time it remains above the Earth, measured either in degrees of Right Ascension, or in Sidereal
Time. The opposition arc is the Nocturnal arc. The declination of the body, or its distance
from the Equator, is the controlling factor: the greater the declination the higher the body will
ascend in the heavens and the longer it will remain above the horizon.
Hourly. Subtracting a planet's position on one day, as shown in the ephemeris, from its
position on the preceding or following day yields its daily motion.
Rapt. Raptus, carried away. The apparent diurnal motion of the heavens, in consequence of
the Earth's axial rotation; the manner in which the fixed stars and the planetary bodies are
caused to make one complete revolution in 24 hours, is termed their Rapt Motion, in
accordance with the ancient theory of the Primum Mobile (q.v.).