Critical Degrees
Moon, Mansions of DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.
Glossary
Crooked Signs
Taurus, Capricorn and Pisces; and should the Ascendant or Moon be in one of these, and afflicted by the malefics, the native, it is said, will be crooked and imperfect. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.
Crucial Degrees
Moon, Mansions of DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.
Culminating
Ascendant DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.
Culmination. n. to culminate .v
The arrival of a planet at the Midheaven (M.C.) or the cusp of the Tenth house, by progression, direction, or transit. (b) Sometimes used to indicate the completion of an aspect – the arrival of a planet at the exact degree where a partile aspect becomes platic. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical … Read more
Culminator
A swift-moving planet which in transit reaches a critical position, by conjunction or aspect, and thereby precipitates the externalization of a simultaneous state of displaced equilibrium caused by a lingering aspect from a slow moving planet. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.
Cusp
The imaginary line which separates a Sign from adjoining Signs, a House from its adjoining Houses; (b) an indeterminate but small arc contiguous to the boundary-line between adjacent Signs and Houses, wherein there is uncertainty as to the planet’s location at a particular moment, and ambiguity as to the planet’s influence in a borderline relationship. A … Read more
Cycle
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.
Cycles
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
Contact
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. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.