Climacterical Conjunction.
Said of certain Jupiter-Saturn Conjunctions. v. Chronocrators. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.
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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
Combust
Said of a planet when in extreme closeness to the Sun, the limits variously placed at from 3° to 8°30′. The characteristic effect to which the term applies is probably confined within an arc of 3° and is more pronounced when the planet rises after the Sun. Older authorities, including Milton, have described it as … Read more
Comets
Erratic members of the Solar system, usually of small mass. Luminous bodies, wandering through space, or circulating around the Sun, and visible only when they approach the Sun. They usually consist of three elements: nucleus, envelope, and tail. The superstitious once considered them to be evil omens. Those pursuing an elongated orbit are periodic and … Read more
Cacodemon
An evil spirit; the elemental. A term once employed in connection with the twelfth house, but no longer in use. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.
Cabala, Cabalism;
also Kabalism, kabalistic. (1) The Cabalists assume that every word of the inspired writings embodies a secret meaning, the key to which only they possess; (2) a summation of the ancient lore accredited to the ancient rabbis of Israel. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.