Tag: Astronomy

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

  Cycles

  When a faster moving planet overtakes and passes a slower moving planet, it forms a conjunction. When this recurs a second time between the same two planets there is evident a […]

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

  Cycle

  Of the Sun, 28 years; of the Moon, 19 years. An imaginary orb, or circle, in the heaven; marks the return of the  planets to their own places; each of […]

• 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, 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, 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, Glossary

  Corona

  A fringe of light, or halo, surrounding the Sun; visible only during a total Eclipse. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.

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

  Copernican System.

  From Copernicus, an astronomer of Prussian birth (1493-1543), who was the first to show that all the observed motions of the planets could be explained by a diurnal rotation of […]

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

  Coordinate

  n. Any of two or more magnitudes that determine position. Latitude and Longitude are coordinates of a point on the Earth’s surface. v. Celestial Sphere. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. […]

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

  Climacterical Conjunction.

  Said of certain Jupiter-Saturn Conjunctions. v. Chronocrators. DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.

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

  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 […]