Astrological Dictionary Page #4

Critical Degrees

The cusps of the lunar houses or asterisms. Certain positions in the Zodiac are considered critical ...

Culmination

A general term for the hightest and lowest points a planet or celestial body reaches in the sky rela...

Cusp

In mathematics, a "double point" at which two tangents to the curve are coincident. In astrology, t...

Triplicity

Fire signs: Day ruler Sun, Night ruler Jupiter. Earth signs: Day Venus, Night Moon. Air signs: Day S...

Day House

Also called solar house. The sign a planet rules by day. Each planet rules a masculine (yang) sign b...

Day rulers

Sun, Sunday; Moon, Monday; Mars, Tuesday; Mercury, Wednesday; Jupiter, Thursday; Venus, Friday; Satu...

Debility

A weak or afflicted planet. Detriment or Fall are Essential Debilities. Essential debility occurs in...

Decanate

Signs divided into three 10-degree divisions. In contemporary astrology the first decan of a sign is...

Declination

The angular distance measured in degrees north and south of the CELESTIAL EQUATOR defined as 00. The...

Decreasing In Light

Waning visible light in the phases of the Moon, Venus, or Mercury....

Decumbiture

Chart erected for the moment when an ill person takes to his bed The ascendant represents the sick p...

Degree

A measurement of 1/360th of a circle. Special symbols (?°,',") are used to denote specific angles. ...

Derivative Houses

Counting the houses by placing the house ruling a Horary question on the Ascendant (1st house) and t...

Descendant

Degree and sign opposite the Ascendant. The 7th house. One of the angles in a chart ; sometimes refe...

Detriment

Weak position for a planet in the opposite sign to that which it 'rules' ; an essential debility or ...

Dexter Aspect

Aspect formed by a faster moving planet to a slower one when it is behind it in the zodiac. It appea...

Dignity

Planetary strength. Essential dignity is strength by sign, accidental dignity by house position and ...

Direct

The apparent forward motion of a planet, through the Zodiac. Also describing a planet-to-planet cont...

Directing

The forecasting of future positions of the planets and aspects they will make to those in the Natal ...

Directions

Compass directions with the Ascendant - East; the Descendant - West; IC - North and MC - South. Inte...

Dispositor

Same as ruler of the sign. Said to 'dispose' or dominate the planet in the sign. The Sun is the disp...

Diurnal arc

Measurement in degrees of a planet from rising to setting also called Daily Arc. ...

Diurnal motion

The daily motion by which the stars appear to revolve around the north pole roughly once every 24 ho...

Diurnal planets

Saturn, Jupiter, Sun. ...

Domiciled

The certain position of a planet in the zodiac by sign and house....