Glossary

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

  Cosmic Cross

  Two planets in opposition, each squared by a third planet, resulting in what is termed a T-square or T-cross. A fourth planet, opposing the third and squaring the first two, […]

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

  Cosmic Philosophy, or Cosmism

  A theory of cosmic evolution originated by John Fiske and advanced by him as an interpretation of Spenser. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.

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

  Cosmic Psychology

   The science of diagnosis whereby the maladjustment of the individual to life can be treated by correctional thinking. It does not concern itself with prediction, fortune-telling, life readings, or any […]

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

  Cosmical

  Said of the rising or setting of a planet (or a star) when it is near the Sun – hence rises and sets along with it. The  opposite of acronycal […]

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

  Councillor Gods

  A term applied, by the Chaldeans, to the three bright stars in a constellation, which served to mark the  position of the ruling planet of that sign, when in the […]

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

  Countries

  sign rulerships of. v. Signs DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.

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

  Crepuscle

  Twilight. Used in Primary Directions DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.

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

  Crescent

  Said of the inferior planets as well as of the Moon, when less than half of the disc is illuminated by the Sun DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: […]

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

  Critical Days

  Those which coincide with the formation, by the Moon, directional or transitory, of each successive semi-square or 45° aspect, to its position at birth; or at the commencement of any […]

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

  Chronocrators

  Markers of Time. (1) To the ancients the longest orbits within the solar system were those of Jupiter, 12 years, and Saturn, 30 years. Thus the points at which Jupiter […]