Glossary of Astrological Terms

An occult term indicating psychic sensitivity; a “hunch” or “that peculiar feeling that something is…

The precursors of the modern Tables of Houses. They were calculated for every 30′ shortening…

Every 7th and 9th year in a Nativity, supposedly brought about through the influence of…

These are planets and Signs having a kind of rotary signification: thus Aries is a…

Moon, Saturn. v. Planets, Hot, Slow. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library,…

When a planet is in aspect to two other bodies which are not within orbs…

In the age when an astrologer presumed to find in a chart the answer to…

Said of a planet when in extreme closeness to the Sun, the limits variously placed…

Erratic members of the Solar system, usually of small mass. Luminous bodies, wandering through space,…

Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, and Virgo, because they were deemed more powerful by virtue…

According to Ptolemy the sex as well as the incidents relating to a child, prior…

Three or more planets in a birth map, that are joined together by aspects, whereby….

The conjunction of an inferior planet, Mercury or Venus, with the Sun is an inferior…

Phraseology to indicate the mutual relation of two planets occupying longitudinal positions separated by less…

Some 90 subdivisions of the heavens, mostly named according to some outline traced among the…

 Usually applied to an aspect from a transiting or directed planet to a sensitive degree…

(Devore’s having been inadequately clear in this case): These are the same degees of declination…

Those computed opposite to the order of the Signs. Some authorities appear to question the…