Astrological Dictionary Page #10

Prime Vertical

The great circle which passes through the East and West points of the Horizon, and the Zenith a...

Ptolemaic Aspect

Ptolemy distinguished four major aspects between zodiac signs: sextile, square, trine, and oppositio...

Quadrant

One of four quarters of the Celestial Sphere transposed to the horoscope as three houses. It is defi...

Quadrate

Another name for a square aspect. ...

Quadruplicity

The set of four signs with the same quality, either Cardinal, Fixed, or Mutable. These groups are fo...

Querent

The person who asks the horary question....

Quesited

(L. quaestio, past participle of the above) Horary astrology - What the Querent queries. The person ...

Quincunx

The 150 degrees aspect. Ptolemy writes of disjunct signs in Tetrabiblos I.16, signs which have no "f...

Radical

adj. [L. radix, root] The birth chart, also known as the radical chart. In horary astrology, a radi...

Radius Vector

Distance at any given time of a planet from the Sun's Centre. Kepler's second law states that even t...

Rational Horizon

the Geocentric Horizon projected into space. Identical to the Astronomical Horizon....

Refranation

When an applying aspect is 'refrained' from reaching perfection. Often when one of the significators...

Regiomontanus House System

A system of house division based on dividing the quarters of the Equator defined by the Ascendant/De...

Regulus

Cor Leonis (the heart of the lion). A fixed star, the most "royal" of the four royal stars. It is r...

Retrograde

When a planet appears to be moving backwards (westward) due to the relative speed of the earth to th...

Right Ascension

Hours measured along the celestial equator, starting from the March equinox (intersection of the ecl...

Rising Planet

Planets are rising toward the Ascendant in the axial rotation of the chart. Usually a planet within ...

Rising Sign

The astrological sign that is on the eastern Horizon at the moment of birth; the sign of the zodiac...

Ruler

The planet assigned as influential to one or two of the signs. ...

Separating Aspect

An aspect that has already perfected and where the planets are now moving away from the earlier exac...

Serpentis

Considered a malefic degree of the zodiac. It happens to be occupied now (Epoch 1990) by the fixed s...

Sextile Aspect

A 60-degree aspect. One of the major or Ptolemaic aspects. Traditionally a soft aspect. Unites signs...

Sidereal Day

The True rotation of the Earth measured by two successive transits of a fixed star over the observer...

Sidereal Time

The Hour Angle of the Vernal Point. Mean Sidereal Time is measured by the diurnal motion of the mean...

Sidereal Year

Time required for the Earth to return exactly to the same position with reference to the same fixed ...