Glossary

• 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 […]

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

  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. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. […]

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

  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 […]

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

  Corona

  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.

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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.

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

  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, 2025C-Entries, Glossary, Philosophy

  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 […]

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  Cosmic

  Something vast and systematic, imbued with a sense of magnitude and order. Webster defines cosmical physics as astrophysics. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.

• March 16, 2025C-Entries, Glossary, Philosophy

  Cosmic Conditioning

  Ancient man was convinced that his destiny upon earth was ruled by the divine power that placed the stars in the heavens; that every created thing was a result of […]