Glossary

• 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, Delineation, Glossary

  Character

  The sublime strength of Astrology is in its delineation of character. As destiny is subservient to character, no prediction should be ventured until the patterns of emotional stimulation and environment […]

• 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, […]

• February 15, 2025Astronomy, B-Entries, Glossary, Occultism

  Babel, Tower of.

  A temple dedicated to the study of the planets, which were supposed todivulge the secrets of life and guide human destiny DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, […]