Delineation

• March 16, 2025Aspects, C-Entries, Delineation, Glossary

  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 – […]

• March 16, 2025Aspects, C-Entries, Delineation, Glossary

  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 […]

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  Correction

  The adjustment of mean to sidereal time, whereby to ascertain the correct right ascension of the midheaven. v. Time DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.

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  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 […]

• March 16, 2025Astronomy, C-Entries, Delineation, Glossary

  Cosmical

  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 […]

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  Councillor Gods

  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 […]

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  Crepuscle

  Twilight. Used in Primary Directions DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.

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  Critical Days

  Those which coincide with the formation, by the Moon, directional or transitory, of each successive semi-square or 45° aspect, to its position at birth; or at the commencement of any […]

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  Chronocrators

  Markers of Time. (1) To the ancients the longest orbits within the solar system were those of Jupiter, 12 years, and Saturn, 30 years. Thus the points at which Jupiter […]

• March 16, 2025C-Entries, Delineation, Glossary, Mythology

  Chronos

  The original supreme deity, superseded by Zeus (2) In ancient texts, the planet Saturn (q.v.) DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.