Astrological Dictionary on Letter #C

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Cadent House

The 3rd, 6th, 9th and 12th Houses of a chart are known as the Cadent Houses. The cadent houses are a...

Cadent House

Campanus House System

A quadrant system where the prime vertical are formed by great circles passing through the north and...

Campanus House System

Cancer

Sign of the zodiac where the Sun transits between approximately 21st June and 20th July each year ru...

Cancer

Capricorn

The sign of the zodiac where the Sun transits during approximately 22nd December and 21st January ea...

Capricorn

Caput Algol

A malefic fixed star; a companion star circles it in 69 hours causing 9-hour occultations as viewed ...

Caput Algol

Caput Draconis

Dragons Head - North Node of the Moon; signifies resources, application point, or vocation....

Caput Draconis

Cardinal

One of the modes or qualities of the horoscope, along with fixed and mutable. Signs of the Zodiac - ...

Cardinal

Cauda Draconis

Dragon's Tail - South Node of the Moon; symbolizes the past, one's frame of reference; a harkening p...

Cauda Draconis

Cazimi

An Arabic term meaning "in the heart of the Sun" used mainly in horary astrology. When a significato...

Cazimi

Celestial Body

Any object, planet, satellite, Moon, Comet, Asteroid in space recognized, measured by astronomers or...

Celestial Body

Celestial Equator

A GREAT CIRCLE passing through Earth's Equator, projected into space. It forms a perpendicular to th...

Celestial Equator

Celestial Latitude

A celestial body's position above or below the ecliptic measured as a portion of an arc passing thr...

Celestial Latitude

Celestial Meridian

A great circle passing through the north and south points of the plane of the Horizon. The EARTH'S M...

Celestial Meridian

Celestial Pole

A projection of the TERRESTRIAL POLES into space. ; one of two points about which the Celestial Sphe...

Celestial Pole

Celestial Sphere

The night sky looks like an upside down bowl set on the horizon, but as it turns around during the n...

Celestial Sphere

Chaldean Astrology

Astrology attributed to the Chaldean priests, based on the finding of cuneiform tablets dated C670 B...

Chaldean Astrology

Chaldean Order of the Planets

Traditional hierarchy of the planets - Saturn Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon. This order i...

Chaldean Order of the Planets

Chart

Diagram showing the position of heavenly bodies at a given time and location. ...

Chart

Chiron

Asteroidal body discovered in 1977 by Charles Kowal. Sidereal period 50.68 years. It is named after ...

Chiron

Circumpolar Star

To circle around the pole. Circumpolar stars or constellations trace daily circles around the celest...

Circumpolar Star

Collection of Light

When a slower planet receives aspects from two faster planets, which are not themselves in aspect. I...

Collection of Light

Combust

When a planetary significator in horary astrology is within 17 minutes (cazimi) and 8 degrees 30 of ...

Combust

Comets

Bodies orbiting the Sun most of which have luminous tail visible when near the sun. The tail always ...

Comets

Commanding Signs

Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo - considered more powerful than the other six signs. (Nort...

Commanding Signs

Common Signs

Old word for Mutable signs. Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces ; said to be flexible but vacillat...

Common Signs

Composite Chart

A type of chart comparison in which the near midpoints of the same bodies in two charts establish po...

Composite Chart

Conception Chart

Hypothetical chart based on the individual's conception. Ptolemy describes the trutine of Hermes as ...

Conception Chart

Configuration

Pattern in the chart. An angular relationship between three or more planets. Examples are: grand tri...

Configuration

Conjunction

Union of planets or planets and other bodies or points within a determined orb. Traditional meanings...

Conjunction

Consideration before judgment

A condition in horary astrology that cautions against reading the chart. Some traditional considerat...

Consideration before judgment

Constellation

Groups of stars with a recognisable pattern and an ancient mythological correspondence. The ancients...

Constellation

Contrariety of planets

When a slow planet is being aspected by two fast planets, and the first faster planet applies in dir...

Contrariety of planets

Contra-parallel

When two bodies are in the same Celestial Latitude but one is North and one South of the Celestial E...

Contra-parallel

Coordinate System

A method using Great circles to provide a means to specify a unique location on the celestial sphere...

Coordinate System

Copernicus, Nicolas

(1473-1543) Polish astronomer and astrologer. Copernicus is regarded as the father of the Heliocentr...

Copernicus, Nicolas

Cosmobiology

A school of astrology founded by Reinhold Ebertin ( Feb 16 1901) concerned with the correlations bet...

Cosmobiology

Crescent Moon

A phase in the illumination cycle of the Moon Moon when it is 45 degrees ahead of the Sun in its cyc...

Crescent Moon

Critical Days

A term used in decumbiture and event charts describing successive 45?° aspects by the transiting Mo...

Critical Days

Critical Degrees

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

Critical Degrees

Culmination

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

Culmination

Cusp

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

Cusp
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