Author: Lilith Mind

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

  Chaldaean Oracle.

  An Oracle venerated as highly by the Chaldaeans as was the one at Delphi, by the Greeks. It taught that “Though Destiny may be written in the stars, it is […]

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

  Chaldeans

  First a Semitic tribe, but later the magi of Babylonia, astrologers and diviners. From among them came “the wise men from the East.” We know little of Chaldaean astrology, but […]

• March 16, 2025Asteroids, C-Entries, Glossary, Mythology

  Ceres

  Daughter of Ops and Saturn; a Roman goddess of growing vegetation, particularly corn. Her day of celebration occurred on April 19th. (2) The first of the Asteroids (q.v.) to be […]

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

  Celestial Sphere

  If one pictures the sphere we call the Earth, enlarged to embrace the visible heavens, the resulting concept can be called the celestial sphere. If it is a true sphere, […]

• 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, 2025Arabic, Astronomy, C-Entries, Glossary

  Cauda Draconis

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

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

  Catahibazon

  An Arabic term for Cauda Draconis. v. Moon’s Node. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.

• 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 […]