Astrological Dictionary Page #13

Tropic of Capricorn

A "Small Circle" 23?°27' South of the Earth's Equator where the Sun reaches its highest declination...

Tropical Signs

Cancer and Capricorn because the Sun reaches the Tropics as it enters those signs. ...

Tropical Year

The time between successive passings of the Sun through the Vernal point. 365 days 5 hours, 48 minut...

Tropical Zodiac

1. The coordinate system which measures Celestial Longitude eastward along the Ecliptic, beginning...

Trutine

Ptolemaic formulae. For example, the trutine of conception states that at the time of conception the...

Under Duress

Horary astrology When a significator is besieged by two malefics within tight orbs....

Under the Sunbeams

Horary Astrology. When a significator is within 8.30 degrees and 17 degrees of the Sun. Anthony Loui...

Universal Time

Is the time at the longitude of Greenwich Observatory in England. It comes in several flavors: UT0, ...

Upper Culmination

Same as upper meridian - the point at which any given heavenly body or point reaches its highest poi...

Uranian Planets

One of the eight planets "discovered " by Witte, a German Astrologer of the WW-I period, in conjunct...

Uranian System

Also known as the Hamburg school. Developed by Alfred Witte....

Uranus

Major planet - the first of the planets not visible from earth with the naked eye. Discovered by Sir...

Ursa Major

The Big Bear, third largest of the 88 constellations with seven stars. In America they are called th...

Ursa Minor

Little Bear. Constellation near Ursa Major, contains the star Polaris. The whole sky seems to rotate...

Venus

(and Mercury) Because of Regular Retrograde motion these planets sometime appear in front of or behi...

Vernal Equinox

That time of the year when the Sun crosses theEquator, going North. This occurs in the Spring, aroun...

Vernal Point

The beginning of measurement of right ascension on the celestial equator or of celestial longitude o...

Vertex

Astrologically, the point defined by the western intersection of the prime vertical and the ecliptic...

Vespertine

A Ptolemaic term. A tern describing a planet setting just after the sun. Opposite of Matutine....

Via Combusta

The region from 15 degrees Libra to 15 degrees Scorpio, considered a malefic zone. The Southern Stre...

Vigintile

Also called Semidecile. An aspect of 18 degrees. ...

Virgo

Sign of the zodiac identified by the Sun's transit between approximately 23 August and September 22 ...

Void of Course

A planet is Void of Course when it no longer makes a major aspect (0, 60, 90, 120, 180 degree aspect...

War Time

Adjustments made to time during World War 2. ...

Water

In modern Tropical Astrology (i.e., post- Ptolemaic times) One of the four elements. Water is associ...