Glossary

• January 4, 2025Astronomy, Delineation, Glossary

  Anaretic Point (Place)

  The degree occupied by the Anareta.

• January 4, 2025Delineation, Glossary

  Androgyne, n., androgynous, a.

  Hermaphroditic; having characteristics of both sexes. Said of the planet Mercury, which is both dry and moist.

• January 4, 2025Glossary, Mundane

  Angels

  The angels which were associated with the different planets.

• January 4, 2025Astronomy, Delineation, Glossary

  Angle

  Any one of the four cardinal points in a Figure, or map, of the heavens; variously referring to the Zenith, or South Vertical; the Nadir, or North Vertical; and the East and West horizons: the cusps of the Tenth, Fourth, First and Seventh Houses, or the Medium Coeli, Immum Coeli, Oriens (Ascendant) and Occidens (Descendant) of a Solar or, indeed, of any Celestial Figure. Usually identified as the Southern, Northern, Eatern and Western angles. They are the most powerful and important arcs in Astrology. Planets therein become immensely potent for good or ill, according to the nature of the planets and their aspects. The term may refer to the shape and position of the House as placed on the square maps employed by the ancient astrologers. v. Map of the Heavens. Many depose that the Ascendant is the most powerful angle in any Figure, though Ptolemy gives preference to the Midheaven, or Zenith, since the celestial bodies are uniformly more potent in their effects at their meridian altitude than when rising.

• January 4, 2025Astronomy, Glossary

  Angstrom

  A ten-billionth of a metre. Employed as a unit for measuring the wave lengths of light. Ten angstrom equal one millimicron. v. Wave Length.

• January 4, 2025Delineation, Glossary

  Angular

  said of a planet in an angle (q.v.) or in an angular House. The angular Houses bear a correspondence to the Cardinal Signs, and planets therein posited are materially strengthened, though whether beneficially or adversely depends upon the nature of the planet itself as also upon the nature of the aspects it receives from other planets in the Scheme.

• January 4, 2025Astronomy, Glossary

  Angular Velocity

  The angle through which a planet sweeps in a unit of time. Technically, the daily motion of a planet, expressed in degrees and minutes of arc, is its Angular Velocity.

• January 4, 2025Astronomy, Glossary

  Anomaly

  The angular distance of a planet from its perihelion or aphelion.

• January 4, 2025Delineation, Glossary, Synastry

  Anipathies

  The unaccountable aversions and antagonisms people feel toward each other when positions in their Nativities are in conflict. Among the causes of such conflict are the luminaries in dissociate Signs, or in inharmonious aspect to one another; the Ascendants in opposition Signs; the Infortunes conjunct or in inharmonious aspect to the luminaries, or to each other, or in opposition from angular Houses. Sometimes loosely applied to planets seen in an inharmonious relationship through an adverse aspect, whereat they are considered to bear an anipathy to one another.

• January 4, 2025Delineation, Glossary

  Antipathy

  Disharmony of two bodies, usually planets, which rule or are exalted in opposite Signs. For example, Saturn ruling Capricorn has an antipathy for the Moon, ruling Cancer.