Contact. (a) Usually applied to an aspect from a transiting or directed planet to a sensitive degree created by a planet at
birth. (b) In a general sense it infers the energy discharge which takes place when an aspect becomes operative.
Contra antiscions. Apolo-Edited Definition (Devore's having been inadequately clear in this case): These are the same
degees of declination held by stars and planets tenanting Signs on opposite sides of the Aries 0º - Libra 0º axis. They are
exactly opposite the antiscion points. For example, the antiscion of 5º Aries is at 25º Virgo, while the contra-antiscion of 5º
Aries is at 25º Pisces. To find them recourse may be had to Tables of Declination. v. Parallels.
Converse Directions. Those computed opposite to the order of the Signs. Some authorities appear to question the validity
of Converse Directions. It is true that in a birth Figure aspects are deemed to be formed only by a faster moving planet to a
slower moving; but this does not apply to Directions in which the directed planet aspects all natal planets. If there is any
validity in either Directions or Progressions the probability is that they are based upon a moving Ascendant which carries
with it the entire Figure. In that event it would make no difference which one of two planets is directed to the other; for
whether the one moves forward or the other moves backward, a contact between these two planets will result in either case,
and which one is deemed to be the birth planet and which the directed planet is of relatively minor consequence. Since
transits are the actual rather than theoretical or symbolic motions of the body of the planets in the order of the Signs,
forming aspects to the birth places of planets - their own as well as those of other planets - there can be no such thing as
Converse Transits.
Coordinate. n. Any of two or more magnitudes that determine position. Latitude and Longitude are coordinates of a point
on the Earth's surface. v. Celestial Sphere.
Copernican System. From Copernicus, an astronomer of Prussian birth (1493-1543), who was the first to show that all the
observed motions of the planets could be explained by a diurnal rotation of the Earth on its axis, and a concept of the Sun
as the centre around which the Earth and the other planets revolve. He was partially anticipated by Pythagoras, who taught
a heliocentric system of astronomy.
Corona. A fringe of light, or halo, surrounding the Sun; visible only during a total Eclipse.
Correction. The adjustment of mean to sidereal time, whereby to ascertain the correct right ascension of the midheaven. v.
Time.
Co-signficator. These are planets and Signs having a kind of rotary signification: thus Aries is a co-significator of all
Ascendants, because though it is not the Sign ascending it is the first Sign of the Zodiac, as the Ascendant is the First
House in the world.
Cosmecology: the ecology of the cosmic. This title was suggested by Harlan T. Stetson, of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, for a synthesis of the contemporary sciences of astronomy, electro-physics, geology and biology. In his book
"Earth, Radio and the Stars" he ventures the remark that some curse apparently inures in the word "astro-" that keeps
"astrology, mother of all these sciences, in the scientific dog-house," even though it may be the "lost key." He cautiously
suggests that we trace the correlation between changes of a cosmic origin that affect our terrestrial environment, and
periods of optimism and depression in the psychology of the human race; also that the ductless glands, controlling our
moods and temperaments, respond to penetrating radiations which sooner or later must be discovered.
Cosmic. Something vast and systematic, imbued with a sense of magnitude and order. Webster defines cosmical physics as
astrophysics.