B-Entries

• February 15, 2025B-Entries, Delineation, Glossary

  Besieged

  A benefic planet situated between two malefics, within orbs of each, is said to be  besieged and therefore unfortunately placed. Some authorities restrict its application to a  Significator when between […]

• February 15, 2025B-Entries, Glossary, People

  Buddha

  Gautama Siddhartha, founder of Buddhism in the 6th century B.C., was classed by  his followers as the perfect example of a divine godly man. His religion taught tolerance,  universal compassion, […]

• February 15, 2025B-Entries, Delineation, Glossary, Vedic

  Brahmanaspati

   Hindu name for the planet Jupiter. A deity in the Rig-Veda. Known in Vedic mythology as Brihaspati, signifying the power of prayer. His wife Tara was carried away by  Soma (the […]

• February 15, 2025B-Entries, Delineation, Glossary

  Blend

  A term employed by Maurice Weymss to indicate a relationship between zodiacal degrees  (1) when the ruler of one degree is in or in close aspect to the other degree; […]

• February 15, 2025B-Entries, Delineation, Glossary

  Bitter Signs

  A term applied by older authorities to the Fire Signs Aries, Leo and Sagittarius,  which were said to be hot, fiery and bitter. v. Signs.  DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. […]

• February 15, 2025B-Entries, Delineation, Glossary

  Birth Moment

  What is generally accepted as the true moment of birth is the moment of the first inspiration of breath after ligation of the umbilical cord. At that moment the infant ceases […]

• February 15, 2025Aspects, B-Entries, Delineation, Glossary

  Bi-Quintile

  Aspect DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.

• February 15, 2025B-Entries, Delineation, Glossary

  Bicorporeal

  Said of double-bodied Signs: Gemini, Sagittarius and Pisces. As originally  employed by Ptolemy, bicorporeal was the only term by which he characterized the signs that are now designated as Mutable, or […]

• February 15, 2025B-Entries, Delineation, Glossary

  Bestial signs

  Those which have been symbolized by beasts, or animals: Aries, Taurus, Leo,  Scorpio, the last half of Sagittarius, Capricorn and Pisces. v. Signs. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: […]

• February 15, 2025B-Entries, Glossary, Mythology

  Baal (Lord)

  Among the Phoenicians the chief male divinity who appears to have symbolizedBgod of fertility of soil and increase of flocks. In successive periods of the history of the ancientSemitic races, […]