Additional Astrological Terms

This listing and the preceding tabulations are presented to supplement the introduction and explanation of technical terms in the main text, that are indexed in detail. What are now added for the major part are designations encountered in the older writings, or in general reference to branches of astrology other than natal analysis. Mathematical, astronomical, geographical, literary and scientific words in common currency are included only if some special astrological usage might not be anticipated. The particular terminologies of a few more recent schools of thought are ignored, but without prejudice since there may be contributions to astrology that will have a wide acceptance in time. No attention is given to wholly alien systems, such as the Hindu. Pronunciations are given in a few instances, and are indicated in the same fashion as in How to Learn Astrology.

ABSCISSION (ab-SIZH-un), frustration.

ACRONICAL (ah-KRON-ee-kul), occurring at sunset and said of a planet, part, node or point rising or setting and thus heightened in its influence through the conjunction or opposition with the sun SEE cosmical.

ACTINOBOLIA, one of a group of terms (including aporhcea, athazer, decatom, dichotome, dysis, horimea, katababazon and zigiatus) and designations (such as changeable signs, mutilated degrees) of little if any value or interest but preserved in James Wilson's A Complete Dictionary of Astrology, London, 1819, reprinted in Boston, 1885.

ACTIVE, (1) the qualities hot and cold in distinction from the passive dry and moist, (2) all planets other than the lights because their significance remains relatively constant as in contrast with the sun and moon which tend contrariwise to express the natures of the signs or give positive and negative expression to the functions ruled by the zodiacal divisions, and (3) any planet when promittor. [425]

ADJUSTED CALCULATION DATE, the artificial birthday used in secondary directions to give the planetary positions as found in an ephemeris for each day after birth a convenient correspondence to a calendar date in a corresponding year of life.

AFFECTIONS AND SIGNIFICATIONS OF THE DEGREES, preserved in Wilson's Dictionary and included in Horary Astrology, Problem Solving by.

AFFLICTION, an unfavorable aspect.

ALCHOCHODEN (al-koe-KOE-den) or ALMOCHODEN (al-moe-KOE-den), the planet of greatest influence on the hyleg, or the hyleg itself.

ALMUTEN (al-MEW-ten), the strongest planet in the horoscope by accidental and essential dignity.

AMBIENT (AM-bee-ent), the celestial sphere.

ANABIBAZON (an-a-BIB-ay-zon), the dragon's head.

ANARETA (ah-NAR-ee-ta), the planet concerned in death, usually taken as the malefic in the strongest unfavorable aspect with the hyleg but sometimes an unfavorably aspected sun if the moon is hyleg or vice versa.

ANGLE, an angular house or its cusp.

ANIMODER (an-ee-MODE-er), the lunation preceding birth as used in rectification.

ANTISCION (an-TISH-ee-on), two planets in parallel of declination on the same side of the equator, or CONTRA-ANTISCION, when in parallel of declination on opposite sides.

APHETA (AFF-ee-tuh), hyleg.

APORHCEA, SEE actinobolia.

ASCENDING SIGNS, those in which the sun increases in declination, or Aries-Gemini and Libra-Sagittarius, as accentuating the general outreach of life.

ATHAZER (ath-AZE-er), the moon at certain specific distances from the sun, of no demonstrated significance SEE actinobolia.

AUSTRAL SIGNS, southern signs SEE boreal signs.

AZIMENE (as-uh-MEAN-ee), weak or unfortunate [426] degrees or a planet in one of them SEE affections and significations of the degrees.

BARREN SIGNS, Gemini, Leo and Virgo as tending to deny children when strongly accentuated in the horoscope SEE fruitful signs.

BEHOLDING SIGNS, those both northern and southern of same range in declination or same distance from the solstices — Aries and Virgo, Taurus and Leo, Gemini and Cancer, Libra and Pisces, Scorpio and Aquarius or Sagittarius and Capricorn — brought to a mutuality of effort when containing planets in significant configuration with each other.

BESIEGED, a planet situated closely between two others in the zodiac and involved in the common balance of favorable or unfavorable indication of the besieging bodies.

BESTIAL SIGNS, Aries, Taurus, Leo, Capricorn and the latter half of Sagittarius as revealing a tendency to animalistic traits SEE human signs.

BICORPORAL SIGNS, Gemini, Sagittarius and Pisces as represented by fluidity of personal interests; more broadly, the common signs.

BISEPTILE (buy-SEP-tul), the aspect of planets situated at points in the circle two-sevenths of the whole or 102°51' from each other.

BITTER SIGNS, the fire triplicity.

BOREAL SIGNS, northern signs SEE austral signs.

BROKEN SIGNS, Leo, Scorpio and Pisces as indicating the likelihood of malformations, mutilations and similar abnormality when strongly accentuated in a horoscope. SEE crooked signs.

BRUTISH SIGNS, Leo and the latter half of Sagittarius of the bestial signs as inclined sometimes to a marked exaggeration of the animalistic traits.

CACODEMON (kak-oh-DEE-mon), the twelfth house as considered wholly baneful in its indication, in contrast with eudemon.

CACOTYCHE (kak-oh-TIE-key), the sixth house as considered wholly unfortunate in its indication. SEE cacodemon. [427]

CHANGEABLE SIGNS, SEE actinobolia.

CHARIOT, joy.

CHOLERIC SIGNS, fire signs.

CHRONOCRATOR (crow-NOK-ray-tor), (1) the planet or planets ruling a given period of time, (2) one of the seven ages of man, or (3) the cycles created by regular planetary configurations SEE mutation.

CLIMACTERIC (kly-MACK-ter-ik), the critical years of life or every seventh and ninth as created by the moon's squares and trines in basic pattern, with the forty-ninth as especially critical and the sixty-third as the grand climacteric; ALSO the twenty-year mutations of Jupiter and Saturn.

CLIMATE, a belt or zone of the earth as used by astrologers before the development of Tables of Houses.

COLD, (1) dependent, as in relying on exterior factors for a fullness of functioning and said of activity indicated by the moon, Mercury, Saturn, Uranus and Pluto, (2) the negative signs SEE dry, hot, moist.

COLLECTION OF LIGHT, the older and special term for translation of light in the form developed in the Sabian techniques.

CONCEPTIVE SIGNS, fixed signs.

CONJOINED, in conjunction, and by extension in any aspect.

CONSIDERATIONS BEFORE JUDGMENT, required conditions if a horary chart is to be accepted as reliable or fit for interpretation.

CONSTELLATION, a cluster of stars that as seen from the earth can be recognized as some particular form in silhouette and thus used to identify position in the celestial sphere, and hence in astrology one of the groupings created at about the fifth century B.C. to chart the signs of the zodiac or provide an ephemeris in the sky and still taken into account in some astrological systems as the actual or effective zodiac although now out of position by fully thirty degrees.

CONVERSE DIRECTIONS, secondary directions computed on the basis of each day before birth corresponding to [428] a year of life, and primary directions formed when a counterclockwise movement in reverse of axial rotation is considered valid indication.

CORULER, Sharing rulership without distinction of function as when Saturn and Uranus are both considered lords of Aquarius in every particular SEE cosignificator.

COSIGNIFICATOR, a relation arising from similarity of position or function, as between Aries and the ascendant, or illustrated in the case of the moon as indicator of interest in general when held by some astrologers as a cosignificator in any horary inquiry SEE coruler.

COSMICAL, occurring at sunrise and said of a planet, part, node or point rising or setting and so heightened in its influence through the conjunction or opposition with the sun SEE acronical.

CRESPUSCLE (kre-PUS-ul), twilight as taken into account for the sun in primary directions SEE ortive.

CROOKED SIGNS, Taurus, Capricorn and Pisces as sometimes indicating a lack of straightness or normality of bodily structure when strongly emphasized in a horoscope SEE broken signs.

CUSP, the clockwise-facing edge of a house or sign, and at times its astrological representative.

DAY HOUSES, the positive signs in which the planets that rule them gain a minor dignity as in contrast with the night houses or negative signs which are neutral, but with the exception of Cancer and Leo which serve for both day and night.

DECATOM, SEE actinobolia.

DECILE, the semiquintile aspect.

DECUMBITURE (dee-COME-bee-tur), a horary figure erected for the moment of taking to a sickbed.

DELATION, the strengthening of an inferior planet when it makes an aspect to a superior planet that is retrograde or combust.

DESCENDING SIGNS, those in which the sun decreases in declination, or Cancer-Virgo and Capricorn-Pisces as accentuating the general self-concern of the life. [429]

DEXTER, an aspect formed clockwise.

DICHOTOME, DICHOTOMY, SEE actinobolia.

DIRECTIONS, SEE converse directions, diurnal, lunar return, minor directions or processes, primary directions, profection, progressed horoscope, radix system, secondary directions, solar return, transits.

DISSOCIATE SIGNS, those adjacent, or adjacent to opposites, so that major aspects cannot be formed from them except across the lines of the signs, as Aries and Taurus or Aries and Virgo.

DIURNAL or ASCENDANT RETURN, a daily horoscope for the moment the zodiacal place of the ascendant in the natal chart rises in the east where the native may be on the given day; sometimes erected for the repetition of the precise moment of birth in local mean time at the daily location.

DIURNAL HOUSES, day houses.

DIURNAL MOVEMENT, the motion of the planets as carried through the sky by the daily rotation of the celestial sphere, in distinction from their own geocentric movement in the zodiac as given in the ephemeris.

DIURNAL PLANETS, the sun, Jupiter and Saturn as containing more active than passive qualities; ALSO those planets found above or below the horizon with the sun SEE nocturnal planets.

DOMAL DIGNITY, a planet situated in a sign it rules.

DOUBLE-BODIED SIGNS, bicorporal signs.

DRY, tending to sharpness of definition and participation in all experience, said of activity indicated by the sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune as well as sometimes including Mercury and Pluto, and believed to characterize the fire and earth triplicities SEE moist, hot, cold.

DUMB SIGNS, mute signs.

DYSIS, SEE actinobolia.

ECLIPSE, a lunation close enough to the moon's nodes to bring the lesser light across the face of the greater light or the earth's shadow across the moon, in whole or in part, with the [430] astrologically more important eclipse of the sun taking place definitely within 15°21' and possibly within 18°31' of a node and indicating in its case a marked intensification for a period of a year for each hour of the eclipse's duration for any significator in a horoscope situated within 60' of arc of the point of eclipse or its opposite in the zodiac.

ELECTIONS, a branch of horary astrology in which advantageous times for particular acts or the launching of enterprises are determined in advance; ALSO the selection of proper times from the radix or natal horoscope in what then are known as radical elections.

ELEMENTS, fire, water, air and earth as designating the triplicities.

EMBOLISMIC (em-beau-LIZZ-mic), intercalated, as units of time inserted in a temporal scheme to preserve regularity and hence the embolismic or thirteenth lunation in any given year.

ENNEATIC (en-nee-AT-ik), ninthly SEE climacteric.

EUDEMON, the eleventh house as considered wholly beneficial in its indication, in contrast with cacodemon.

FAMILIARITY, aspect.

FEMININE SIGNS, negative signs.

FERAL SIGNS, brutish signs.

FORMING, applying.

FORTITUDE, strength through dignity.

FORTUNATE SIGNS, positive signs.

FOUNDATION SIGNS, fixed signs.

FOUR-FOOTED SIGNS, bestial signs.

FRIENDLY PLANETS, those tending to work together harmoniously as variously suggested by early writers.

FRUITFUL SIGNS, water signs.

FRUSTRATION, in horary astrology when a significator is about to complete an indicative aspect to another planet but cannot do so before a nonsignificator completes an aspect of its own to the same body.

GENETHLIAC (jeh-NETH-lee-ak) ASTROLOGY, natal astrology. [431]

GENITURE (JEN-i-chure), horoscope HAYZ (HAY-is), favorable horoscopic position because the accidental confirms the essential dignity.

HELIOCENTRIC ASTROLOGY, a variation of the usual geocentric point of view in which the center of reference is transferred hypothetically to the sun.

HOARSE SIGNS, Aries, Taurus, Leo and Capricorn, as inclined to roughness or unpleasantness of voice.

HORIMEA, SEE actinobolia.

HOROSCOPE, the ascendant, in some early writers HOT or WARM, (1) self-dependent, as in seeking always to make a contribution from interior resources and said of activity indicated by the sun, Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Neptune, (2) the positive signs SEE cold, dry, moist.

HOUR, SEE planetary hours.

HUMAN SIGNS, Gemini, Virgo, Aquarius and the first half of Sagittarius SEE bestial signs.

HUMANE SIGN, Libra as believed to give a tendency to accepting the other fellow's point of view and acting almost intemperately in his image and interest whenever strongly accentuated in a horoscope.

HURTFUL SIGNS, Aries, Taurus, Cancer, Scorpio and Capricorn as believed to be more likely than average to give or receive injury SEE bestial signs, hoarse signs.

HYPOGEUM, HYPOGEON (hip-owe-GEE-um, —on, HIpo—), a cellar, and thus the fourth house or its cusp.

I.C. (for imum coeli), the nadir.

IMPEDITE (IM-pea-dite), to impede through unfavor able aspect, used principally for hindrance to the lights.

IMPERFECT SIGNS, broken signs.

INCLINATION, the motion of a planet towards a given position.

INCONJUNCT, not in conjunction; loosely, not in any aspect; ALSO sometimes the quincunx and even the semisextile, to suggest the ineffectiveness of aspects from dissociate signs.

INCREASING IN NUMBER, swift in motion.

JOINED TO, conjoined. [432]

JUDICIAL ASTROLOGY, natal astrology.

KACOTYCHE, KAKATYCHE, cacotyche.

KATABABAZON, SEE actinobolia.

KEY CYCLE, a modification of the solar return.

LUNAR RETURN, a horoscope erected for the exact moment of the moon's return to its position in the natal chart, usually calculated for the place in which the native finds himself and used for indication of the course of events in his life for the month ahead SEE diurnal, solar return.

LUNATION, primarily the conjunction of the sun and moon, and secondarily their opposition, as indicating the nature of the period from one new moon to another in the more usual practice or from the new to the full and the full to the new more specifically through (1) conjunction or opposition with other planets in a natal chart or in the zodiac at the moment within 60' of arc of exactness or (2) lunation charts erected for the moment of lunation at the point of consideration on the earth's surface SEE eclipse.

LUXURIOUS SIGN, Aries as believed to give a propensity to luxury and intemperance when strongly accentuated in the horoscope.

MARK, NOON or MIDNIGHT, the equivalent of Greenwich mean time in local mean time.

MASCULINE SIGNS, positive signs.

MATUTINE (MAT-ut-teen), rising just before the sun and a minor dignity for the superior planets.

M.C. (for medium coeli), the midheaven.

MELANCHOLY SIGNS, earth signs.

MIDHEAVEN, the meridian passing through the zenith as it intersects the zodiac and celestial equator, hence the cusp of the tenth house or even the tenth house itself.

MINOR DIRECTIONS, a system based on the monthly cycle of the moon as corresponding from birth to the years of life SEE processes.

MODERATORS, sun, moon, midheaven, ascendant and part of fortune in a recognition of them as of dominant importance by early writers. [433]

MOIST, tending to insinuate or ingratiate into one's self all convenient reality, said of activity indicated by the moon, Venus, Mercury and Pluto but sometimes excluding the last two, and believed to characterize the water and air triplicities SEE cold, dry, hot.

MOVEABLE SIGNS, cardinal signs.

MUNDANE ASPECT, an aspect of greater than normal orb but of some significance because the planets lie in the same or opposite signs or in those whose cusps are sextile, square or trine with each other.

MUNDANE DIRECTIONS, a major part of primary directions.

MUTABLE SIGNS, common signs.

MUTATION, the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction each twenty years, or the great mutation usually taken as each eight hundred SEE chronocrator.

MUTE SIGNS, water signs as indicating inarticulateness or an impediment in speech if planets situated in them are in sufficiently unfavorable aspect.

MUTILATED DEGREES, SEE actinobolia.

MUTILATED SIGNS, broken signs.

MUTUAL APPLICATION, when an applying planet in its direct movement forms an aspect with a retrograde one, and the second planet in consequence is more dynamically concerned in the relationship because it too helps form the aspect in its backward motion.

NADIR (NAY-dur), properly the point on the celestial sphere directly beneath a given place or opposite the zenith but in astrology the great circle of the celestial sphere passing through the poles and the nadir as it intersects the zodiac and the celestial equator, hence the cusp of the fourth house or even the fourth house itself.

NIGHT or NOCTURNAL HOUSES, SEE day houses.

NOCTURNAL PLANETS, the moon, Venus and Mars considered as containing more passive than active qualities; ALSO those planets found on the opposite side of the horizon from the sun SEE diurnal planets. [434]

NONAGON (NON-a-gawn), the aspect of planets situated in the circle a ninth of the whole or 40° from each other.

NOON DATE, adjusted calculation date.

OCCIDENTAL, west; position in the zodiac counterclockwise from the sun; the moon when decreasing in light.

OCCURSOR, promittor.

OCTILE (OCK-tul), the semiquare aspect.

ORIENTAL, east; position in the zodiac clockwise from the sun; the moon when increasing in light.

ORTIVE (OR-tiv), rising, and taken into account with the sun at rising (and setting) in primary directions SEE crepuscle.

PARTILE (PAR-tul), exactness in aspect SEE platic.

PASSIVE SEE active.

PEREGRINE (PER-e-grin, —green), an absence of all essential dignity considered an essential debility.

PERFECT SIGNS, air signs.

PHLEGMATIC SIGNS, water signs.

PLANETARY HOURS, the twelfth part of the time from sunrise to sunset and from sunset to sunrise, with the first hour at each sunrise ruled by the same planet as the day SEE tabulation in Horary Astrology, Problem Solving by.

PLATIC (PLAT-ik), an aspect within orb but not exact; ALSO and loosely, a wide aspect SEE partile.

PONDEROUS PLANETS, the superior planets as moving more slowly and capable of stronger indication in their stations or through their ingresses into houses and signs and their major configurations.

PRENATAL EPOCH, SEE trutine.

PRIMARY DIRECTIONS, the system in which each four minutes after birth corresponds to a year of life; all secondary directions except those of the moon.

PROCESSES, minor directions; progressions generally.

PROFECTION, a system of directions in which the rising of a sign after birth corresponds to a year of life.

PROGRESSED HOROSCOPE, a chart erected for the day after birth corresponding to the year of life for an analysis of [435] indications for the ensuing twelve months, using the month, day and hour of the nativity and either the birthplace or the location at the birthday for determining the house cusps for the inner or outer orientation respectively.

PROGRESSIONS, directions, usually secondary directions.

PROHIBITION, frustration.

PROMITTOR (pro-MITT-or), a significator as promising the fulfillment of some specific potentiality.

PROPER MOTION, (1) a planet's movement around its orbit in heliocentric perspective, (2) its geocentric movement in the zodiac as in contrast with its daily rising and setting brought about by the rotation of the earth.

PROROGATOR (PRO-roe-gay-tor), hyleg.

PTOLEMAIC ASPECTS (tol-e-MAY-ik) major aspects.

QUADRASEXTILE (Kwod-rah-SEKS-tul), the quincunx aspect.

QUADRATE (KWOD-rate), the square aspect.

QUADRATE or QUADRANTINE LUNATIONS, the conjunctions, squares and oppositions of the lights.

QUADRATURE, (1) the axial grouping of the signs, and in this sense also quadruplicity, (a) the square aspect, (3) first and third quarters of the moon or any planet with similar phases.

QUADRUPEDAL SIGNS (kwod-RUE-pea-del), bestial signs.

QUADRUPLICITY (kwod-rue-PLISS-i-tea) SEE quadrature.

QUALITIES, the distinction of quadrature in the zodiac as in contrast with the elements or triplicities, the hot, cold, dry and moist distinctions of planets and triplicities SEE virtues.

QUARTILE (KWOR-tul), the square aspect.

QUATERNION (Kwa-TER-nee-un), the house grouping by tetrads as in contrast with the triads.

QUERENT (KWEER-ent), the inquirer in horary astrology.

QUESITED (kwee-SEE-ted), the subject of inquiry in horary astrology. [436]

QUINDECILE (kwin-DESS-ul), the aspect of planets situated at points in the circle one fifteenth of the whole or 24° from each other.

RADICAL, of the natal horoscope; in horary astrology the requirement that more than three degrees and less than twenty-seven be rising.

RADICAL ELECTIONS, SEE elections.

RADIX, the natal horoscope.

RADIX SYSTEM, a blending of primary and secondary directions.

RAPT, the apparent motion of the celestial sphere around the earth, creating the rapt parallels of primary directions when significators are brought to equal distance from angles.

RAYS, influence, as when a planet in aspect with another is said to be under its rays.

RECEPTION, contained within the dignity of a planet or received within a sphere of its influence, as in mutual reception.

RECTIFICATION, the establishment of a possible and likely time of birth by bringing the houses of the horoscope to a maximum conformity with the known events of a life; the various astrological procedures that purport to accomplish this result SEE animoder, trutine.

REFRENATION (ref-ree-NAY-shun) or REFRANATION (ref-ray—), in horary astrology the failure of a planet to complete an aspect already in orb through a change in direction.

RETURN SEE diurnal, lunar return, solar return.

REVOLUTION, return.

RULER, planetary lord; almuten; loosely, any given significator.

RUMINANT SIGNS, Aries, Taurus and Capricorn as suggesting a tendency towards repetitive experience when strongly accentuated in a horoscope.

SANGUINE SIGNS, the air signs.

SECONDARY DIRECTIONS, the system in which every day after birth corresponds to a year of life; these directions as [437] formed by the moon particularly SEE primary directions.

SEMIDEMIQUARTILE (sem-e-dem-e-KWOR-tul), the aspect of planets situated at points in the circle three-quarters of a sign or 22°30' from each other.

SEMIDEMIQUINTILE (sem-e-dem-e-KWIN-tul), the vigintile aspect.

SEMIQUADRATE (sem-e-KWOD-rate) or SEMIQUARTILE (sem-e-KWOR-tul), the semisquare aspect.

SESQUIQUINTILE (ses-kwe-KWIN-tul), the tredecile aspect.

SINISTER, an aspect formed counterclockwise.

SLOW IN MOTION or SLOW IN COURSE, moving slower than mean motion at a given moment.

SOLAR EQUILIBRIUM CHART, a type of horoscope employed when no hour and minute of birth are available, using the sun's position for sunrise on the day and place of birth for the ascendant, and the same degree and minute in each succeeding sign for each next cusp to establish the solar houses; also and commonly using the sun's position as given for noon or midnight in the ephemeris for the day of birth in the same fashion.

SOLAR RETURN, the birthday horoscope erected for the exact moment of the sun's return to its position in the natal chart, usually calculated for the place in which the native finds himself and used for indication of the course of events in his life for the year ahead SEE diurnal, lunar return.

SPEAKING SIGNS, Gemini, Virgo, Libra, Aquarius and the first part of Sagittarius as indicating an articulate self-expression whenever strongly accentuated in a horoscope.

STATION, the point in the zodiac where a planet becomes stationary in directions or transits, to indicate an intensification of whatever may be shown in a horoscope by another planet or part or node found in conjunction or opposition with it within 60' of orb; ALSO the event of a planet changing direction as this has significance in mundane astrology.

STRONG SIGNS, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius as believed to give a physical indomitability when strongly accentuated [438] in a horoscope SEE weak signs.

SUN SIGN, the zodiacal sign containing the natal sun and the basis of the sunscopes or popular delineations and prognostications where the birthday alone is taken into account.

SWEET SIGNS, the air signs

SWIFT IN MOTION or SWIFT IN COURSE, moving faster than mean motion at a given moment.

SYSYGIES (SIZZ-i-jiz), conjunctions and oppositions generally involving the sun and usually lunations.

TESTIMONY, the contribution to astrological insight by a planet through its dignities, aspects and so on.

TETRAGON (TET-rah-gone), the square aspect.

THEME, a horoscope.

THRONE, joy.

TIME TABLE, in horary astrology the determination of the nature of the time units as days, weeks and so on shown by the degrees a significator must move to complete as aspect, according to the place of the significator by quadrature and quaternion.

TRANSITS, the correspondences between the positions of the planets in the natal horoscope and their actual geocentric place in the heavens at any given later moment.

TREDECILE (tree-DESS-ul), the aspect of planets situated at points in the circle three-tenths of the whole or 108° from each other.

TRIGON (TRY-gone), triplicity.

TRIGONOCRATOR (trig-owe-NOK-ray-tor), the ruler of a trigon.

TRIMORION (try-MOE-ree-on), embracing three signs; a square or a mundane square; 120 years as the ultimate span of human life.

TRINITIES, the signs classified by the four seasons.

TRISEPTILE (try-SEP-tul), the aspect of planets situated at points in the circle three-sevenths of the whole or 154°17' from each other.

TRUTINE (TRUE-teen), the basis of rectification originated in the second century by Hermes and developed in [439] modern times as the prenatal epoch, or the proposition that the place of the moon at conception tends to be the ascendant at birth and vice versa.

UNDER THE SUNBEAMS, within 17° of the sun but not combust or cazimi, as a lesser measure of combustion.

UNFORTUNATE SIGNS, the negative signs.

VESPERTINE (VES-per-tine, —tin), setting just after the sun and a minor dignity for Mercury and Venus SEE matutine.

VIA COMBUSTA (Vee-ah come-BUST-ah), the burning way of the zodiac from Libra 15° to Scorpio 15° or sometimes through the whole of Scorpio as an indication in horary astrology of complete confusion when the moon is found there.

VIGINTILE (VIE-jin-tul), the aspect of planets situated at points in the circle one-twentieth of the whole or 18° from each other.

VIOLENT SIGNS, Aries, Libra, Scorpio, Capricorn and Aquarius as indicating a tendency to lack of self-control and a proclivity for serious trouble whenever strongly accentuated in a horoscope.

VIRTUES, cold, dry, hot and moist SEE qualities.

VOICE, SIGNS OF, the speaking signs.

VOID OF COURSE, inability to make a major aspect before leaving the sign and in horary astrology an indication of complete ineffectiveness of the chart or of the matters concerned if the case of the moon.

WARM, hot.

WEAK SIGNS, Cancer, Capricorn and Pisces as believed to give a deficient body when strongly accentuated in a horoscope SEE strong signs.

WET, moist.

WHOLE SIGNS, the air signs.

ZIGIATUS, SEE actinobolia.

ZODIAC, SEE constellation.

ZODIACAL DIRECTIONS, a major part of primary directions.