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Sect
Sect is a technical term that is used in astrology in order to refer to a distinction between day and night. In practice it is used to associate different planets or different parts of an astrological...
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In astrology the term fixed star is used to refer to stars that lie outside of the Earth’s solar system. The phrase arises from the fact that the planets were originally referred to as “wandering...
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Natural house is a phrase used in modern astrology to refer to a specific set of correspondences between certain planets, zodiacal signs and houses. The concept is based on the notion that there is a...
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A planet is said to be “angular” when it is in one of the four angular houses or conjunct one of the house cusps associated with those houses. The four angles and the angular houses associated with...
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The term zodiac is usually used to refer to a division of the ecliptic into segments that are thought to be endowed with certain qualities and meanings in astrology. Zodiac in Western Astrology The...
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House Division
In astrology the term house division is used to refer different systems or methods of dividing the houses in an astrological chart into discrete sections. The houses typically consist of 12 discrete...
View ArticleJyotish
The term Jyotish or Jyotisha is the original word “astrology” in India. The term is derived from Sanskrit, where it means “the science of heavenly bodies,” although it is sometimes interpreted...
View ArticleOuter Planets
In modern astrology the outer planets are usually defined as any planets beyond Saturn in the solar system, which usually means Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. The outer planets are usually classified...
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Waxing
In astrology the term waxing is used to designate the half of an orbital or synodic cycle between two planets that begins at the conjunction and ends at the opposition. This is as opposed to the waning...
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Waning
In astrology the term waning is used to designate the half of an orbital or synodic cycle between two planets that begins at the opposition and ends at the conjunction. This is as opposed to the waxing...
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Mercury Retrograde
Mercury retrograde is a phrase used in astrology to refer to a phenomenon that occurs periodically when the planet Mercury temporarily appears to reverse its normal course and move backward through the...
View ArticleDerivative Houses
In astrology the concept of derivative houses involves starting or measuring a system of twelve houses from some point in the chart other than the Ascendant, in order to study matters relative to the...
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The term retrograde refers to a planet’s periodic apparent backward motion in the sky, a time known as its retrograde period. The illusion of retrograde planets is caused by the different relative...
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Natural house is a phrase used in modern astrology to refer to a specific set of correspondences between certain planets, zodiacal signs and houses. The concept is based on the notion that there is a...
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Whole Sign House System
The whole sign house system is a method of house division that uses the rising sign as the first house, and then the rest of the houses are assigned to each of the signs in zodiacal order, with each of...
View ArticleNativity
Nativity is a term that is used in astrology to refer to the birth chart or natal chart of an individual, which is a diagram that depicts the alignment of the planets at the moment they were born. The...
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Ascendant is a term used in astrology to refer to the degree of the zodiac or sometimes the entire zodiacal sign that is rising over the eastern horizon at a given moment in time. Due to the Earth’s...
View ArticleSecondary Progressions
Secondary Progressions is a predictive technique used in western astrology where the birth chart is moved or “progressed” forward one day per year of life, so that each day after the native is born is...
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Accidental Dignity
Accidental dignities are considerations used in Medieval and Renaissance astrology to denote when a planet is auspiciously placed in a chart, in ways that are additional, or “accidental”, compared to...
View ArticleImum Coeli
Imum Coeli (abbreviated as IC) is a modern term used interchangeably to refer to either: The exactly degree opposite the Midheaven; or The fourth whole sign place, which is the fourth sign relative to...
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