Tag: Delineation

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

  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 […]

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

  Commanding Signs

  Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, and Virgo, because they were deemed more powerful by virtue of their nearness to the zenith. The assumption that these command while the other six […]

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

  Cadent

  Those houses which fall away from the angles; the 3rd, 6th, 9th and 12th houses. Cadent Planets are those which occupy Cadent Houses, and whose influence is thereby weakened. v. […]

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

  Character

  The sublime strength of Astrology is in its delineation of character. As destiny is subservient to character, no prediction should be ventured until the patterns of emotional stimulation and environment […]

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

  Cazimi

  An Arabian astronomical term applied to the center of the Solar disc. It is employed to describe a planet located within an arc of seventeen minutes (17′) of the Sun’s […]

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

  Cataclysmic Planet

  Uranus, which combines both teh magnetic and the electric elements, producing sudden effects. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.

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

  Casting the Horoscope

  The term used by astrologers to imply the calculations necessary to be made, prior to the delineation of the nativity. v. Figure.  DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical […]

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

  Cardinal Signs

  Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn — whose cusps coincide with the cardinal points of the compass: Aries, East; Cancer, North; Libra, West; and Capricorn, South. v. Signs. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia […]

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

  Caput Draconis

  The Dragon’s Head. v. Moon’s Node DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.

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

  Capricorn

  The mountain-climbing goat. The tenth sign of the zodiac. In Hindu astrology, Makarar – and considered by the ancients to be the most important of all the signs. Is it […]