Glossary

• 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, 2025Astronomy, C-Entries, Glossary

  Comets

  Erratic members of the Solar system, usually of small mass. Luminous bodies, wandering through space, or circulating around the Sun, and visible only when they approach the Sun. They usually […]

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  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 […]

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  Conception

  According to Ptolemy the sex as well as the incidents relating to a child, prior to its birth, may be deduced from the positions of the planets at the time […]

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  Configuration

  Three or more planets in a birth map, that are joined together by aspects, whereby. any stimulation will result in the combined action of all the planets which enter into […]

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  Conjunction: Conjoined to.

  Phraseology to indicate the mutual relation of two planets occupying longitudinal positions separated by less than 7°. The exact limits, and the relative strength at different degrees of separation, constitutes […]

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  Conjunction, Superior and Inferior.

  The conjunction of an inferior planet, Mercury or Venus, with the Sun is an inferior conjunction when the planet is between the Earth and the Sun; a Superior Conjunction, when […]

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  Constellations

  Some 90 subdivisions of the heavens, mostly named according to some outline traced among the principal stars within the area. There is no sharp line of demarcation between the various […]

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  Cabala, Cabalism;

  also Kabalism, kabalistic. (1) The Cabalists assume that every word of the inspired writings embodies a secret meaning, the key to which only they possess; (2) a summation of the […]

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  Cacodemon

  An evil spirit; the elemental. A term once employed in connection with the twelfth house, but no longer in use.  DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.