A benefic planet situated between two malefics, within orbs of each, is said to be besieged and therefore unfortunately placed. Some authorities restrict its application to a Significator when between and within orbs of two benefics. Older authorities, who applied the term to a planet situated between any two planets, considered a planet between Venus … Read more
Gautama Siddhartha, founder of Buddhism in the 6th century B.C., was classed by his followers as the perfect example of a divine godly man. His religion taught tolerance, universal compassion, charity, love, self-sacrifice, poverty, and contentment with one’s lot. His faith was never enforced by fire and sword. (2) Esoterically connected with the planet Mercury, … Read more
Hindu name for the planet Jupiter. A deity in the Rig-Veda. Known in Vedic mythology as Brihaspati, signifying the power of prayer. His wife Tara was carried away by Soma (the Moon). DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.
A term employed by Maurice Weymss to indicate a relationship between zodiacal degrees (1) when the ruler of one degree is in or in close aspect to the other degree; (2) when one degree is closely aspecting or in the same degree as the ruler of the other degrees; or (3) when the rulers of each … Read more
A term applied by older authorities to the Fire Signs Aries, Leo and Sagittarius, which were said to be hot, fiery and bitter. v. Signs. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.
What is generally accepted as the true moment of birth is the moment of the first inspiration of breath after ligation of the umbilical cord. At that moment the infant ceases to receive blood conditioned through the mother’s receptivities, and in response to the law of adaptability must grow channels of receptivity to cosmic frequencies that … Read more
Aspect DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.
Said of double-bodied Signs: Gemini, Sagittarius and Pisces. As originally employed by Ptolemy, bicorporeal was the only term by which he characterized the signs that are now designated as Mutable, or Deductive. Thus it is apparent that he classified Virgo also as bicorporeal. v. Signs. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.
Those which have been symbolized by beasts, or animals: Aries, Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, the last half of Sagittarius, Capricorn and Pisces. v. Signs. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.
Among the Phoenicians the chief male divinity who appears to have symbolizedBgod of fertility of soil and increase of flocks. In successive periods of the history of the ancientSemitic races, the name was assigned to innumerable local deities. The Baal of Tyre wasintroduced among the Israelite settlers by Ahab. Hannibal was so named because he … Read more