When a faster moving planet overtakes and passes a slower moving planet, it forms a conjunction. When this recurs a second time between the same two planets there is evident a first step in a cyclic effect, wherein the econd conjunction has occurred after a certain interval of time and space: recurrence cycles of position and relation. … Read more
Of the Sun, 28 years; of the Moon, 19 years. An imaginary orb, or circle, in the heaven; marks the return of the planets to their own places; each of the planets having a cycle, or revolution, of its own. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.
Said of the inferior planets as well as of the Moon, when less than half of the disc is illuminated by the Sun DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.
A term applied, by the Chaldeans, to the three bright stars in a constellation, which served to mark the position of the ruling planet of that sign, when in the sign. Doubtless employed in an age in which there were no telescopes, to enable the observer to locate the planet when it occupied its own … Read more
Said of the rising or setting of a planet (or a star) when it is near the Sun – hence rises and sets along with it. The opposite of acronycal (qv.) DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.
A fringe of light, or halo, surrounding the Sun; visible only during a total Eclipse. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.
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 … Read more
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. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.
Some 90 subdivisions of the heavens, mostly named according to some outline traced among the principal stars within the area. There is no sharp line of demarcation between the various contiguous constellations. Twelve of these groups lie along the ecliptic, and are thus known as the Zodiac of Constellations. At about the commencement of the … Read more
The complete circle of the zodiac, or 360 degrees of 60 minutes each. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.