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The original supreme deity, superseded by Zeus (2) In ancient texts, the planet Saturn (q.v.) DeVore, Nicholas.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.
Glossary
Circle
The complete circle of the zodiac, or 360 degrees of 60 minutes each. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.
Circles of Position
Circles intersecting the horizon and meridian, and passing through a star: in terms of which to express the position of the star. Their use is not obsolete. However, Circles of Position were not so used by Ptolemy or Placidus, who measured the distance of every star by its semi-arc. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New … Read more
Clairaudience
In occult terminology, the psychic ability to hear sounds or voices regardless of distance. The hearing sense is deemed to be ruled by Saturn; the psychic sense, by Neptune. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.
Clairsentience
An occult term indicating psychic sensitivity; a “hunch” or “that peculiar feeling that something is going to happen.” Almost everyone possesses instinctive and intuitive clairsentience to some degree, largely dependent upon the nature of the configurations in which Neptune is involved. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.
Climaterical Periods
Every 7th and 9th year in a Nativity, supposedly brought about through the influence of the Moon in its position in the Radix. The Moon squares her own place by transit every 7th day, and by direction every 7th year; and trines it every 9th day and year. Thus the climacterical periods occur at the … Read more
Climate
The precursors of the modern Tables of Houses. They were calculated for every 30′ shortening of the diurnal and nocturnal semi-arc as one proceeds north or south from the Equator. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.
Cold Planets
Moon, Saturn. v. Planets, Hot, Slow. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.
Collection of Light
When a planet is in aspect to two other bodies which are not within orbs of each other, a collection of light results through the action of the intermediary planet. It denotes that the affairs represented by the two bodies whose light has been thus collected, will be forwarded by a third person, described by … Read more
Colors
In the age when an astrologer presumed to find in a chart the answer to every manner of question that could be propounded he frequently undertook to tell, for example, which cock would win in a cockfight merely by indicating the color associated with the strongest planet in an Horary Figure. It also was considered … Read more