Glossary

• 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

  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, 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

  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, 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, 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, […]

• January 4, 2025A-Entries, Astronomy, Glossary

  Axis, Inclination of.

  The equators of rotating bodies appear never to parallel their orbits. Hence there is an inclination of the axis when considered in reference to the plane of the orbit. Within the solar system these inclinations arc, at this epoch, as follows: Mercury 72°, Venus 60°, the Earth 23½°, Mars 25°, Jupiter 3°, Saturn 26°, Uranus 102°, Neptune 155°, Pluto unknown. The inclination of the Sun's axis to the plane of the Earth's orbit is about 7°. Its inclination to the plane of its own orbit is unknown, because the Sun's orbit is itself unknown. It is claimed by some that there is an additional motion of the Earth's axis amounting to 50" a century, making an orbit of about 2½ million years, in the course of which the North Pole and the South Pole successively point to the Sun instead of as at present to the Pole Star. This theory is advanced by way of explanation for successive Ice Ages.

• January 4, 2025Astronomy, Glossary

  Axial Rotation

  The diurnal motion of the Earth around its axis; also similar motion on the part of any other celestial body. v. Solar System. 

• January 4, 2025Delineation, Glossary

  Azimene

  Said of a planet posited in certain weak or lame degrees or arc which, if ascending at birth, were supposed to make the native blind, or lame, or otherwise physically afllicted.

• January 4, 2025Astronomy, Glossary

  Azimuth

  A point of the horizon and a circle extending to it from the zenith; or an arc of the horizon measured clockwise between the south-point of the horizon and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object