Acronichal Rising – a star or planet rising at sunset
Acronichal Setting – a star or planet setting at sunrise
The opposite of Cosmical, this is one of the three Greek ideas of the rising and setting of stars: Acronichal, Cosmical and Heliacal, by which they measured the length of the year.
ayanamsa) marking the end of the Age of Aries and the beginning of the Age of Pisces. It has now precessed to around 5° Pisces, so we are gradually approaching the end of the Age of Pisces and have entered the
transitional phase towards actualisation of the Age of Aquarius.
Age of Aquarius
Age-Harmonics
harmonic chart for the age of a person, or other astrological subject. This little-known but powerful technique, especially useful for birth-time rectification, and for
synastry analysis, was discovered by Australian astrologer Ross Harvey in 1983.
Air Element
Air Signs
Airy Triplicity
Akasha (Akasa)
Akashic Records
Albedo
Astronomy: fraction of sunlight reflected by a planet or satellite (no astrological connotations).
Alchemist (Alchymist)
Alchemy
the development of the Universal Solvent (capable of dissolving all substances); and
Magnum Opus (Great Work).
Alcocoden (Alchochoden, Alcoccoden)
Aldebaran
Fixed Star in the 10th degree of Gemini, known traditionally as the archangel Michael, the Watcher of the East. A behenian star, it is one of the four Royal
Stars.
Plotinus. The founder of what eventually became Neoplatonism, he sought to resolve
religious and philosophical conflicts by reviving the ancient Wisdom Religion and developing a universal human brotherhood. Ammonius revealed the essential identity of all religions, acquainting his students with the various systems. Plato and Pythagoras were compared with the philosophies of the ancient East; the Jewish Qabbala with the ancient Egyptian teachings. He revived the system of Orpheus, in which a single Supreme Essence, unknown and unknowable, emanates the souls of the world and the people in it. He taught theurgy, the art of using the divine powers of man to rule the blind forces of nature. Although unwritten, his philosophy (through followers such as Plotinus, Porphyry and Iamblichus) has had a powerful and enduring influence on Astrology, Hermetic Esotericism, Qabbala, Christianity, Gnosticism, Judaism, Islam and Paganism.
Anabibazon
Anareta
Anaretic Degree (Anaretic Place)
The degree wherein the Anareta is found, according to DeVore.
Anaxagoras
(nous), he distrusted the evidence of the senses, preferring reasoning. His ideas on the origins of matter were a precursor of the atomic theory.
Androgyne (Androgynous)
In ancient mythologies, primordial gods and goddesses are regularly depicted as androgynes (hermaphrodites), revealing the polar nature of creation. We see this too in the light and dark, the yin and yang of the cosmos.
Actual human androgynes (hermaphrodites) were once considered incarnations of the divine. Twentieth century medicine denied the existence of hermaphrodites, often assigning gender surgically. A number of these third sex
individuals have surfaced in recent years to reclaim their identities.
Angles
Tenth House (M.C. – South Angle)
Fourth House (I.C. – North Angle)
The Angles are the most important houses. Planets in angles are the strongest and most significant.
Angles of a Malevolent (Infortune)
Angular
Anima Mundi
Thema Mundi, the postulated chart of the beginning of the world.
Animodar (of Tetrabiblos)
Annular
(Annulus) visible. A New Moon near apogee is not sufficient to cover the face of the Sun completely, so its dark
umbra cannot reach the Earth's surface to generate a total solar eclipse; hence, the antumbra predominates.
The Aphorisms of Cardan, "changes of the Absides of the Planets cause mutations in governments
and laws, which is a point very much to be regarded".
Apsis
Aquarius
Aquarius.
Aquarian Age
q.v.
Aquary
Arabic Parts
Pars Fortunæ (Part of Fortune). More
about Arabic Parts.
Arc
th of a
degree and a second is one 60th of a minute. One sign describes 30 degrees of arc along the circumference of the zodiac. Some scientific authors are now using decimal fractions, instead of minutes and seconds, though curiously they are still using degrees from the ancient Babylonian sexagesimal (base-60) mathematical system.
Archetype
Ares
Aries
Aries.
Aries Point
a.k.a. Cosmobiology), but also has ancient references. It is more widely known as the Vernal Point.
Aristarchos of Samos
Copernicus some 1800 years later.
Aristotle
Plato and tutor of Alexander the Great. He wrote widely and his influential ideas on physics, metaphysics, poetry, theatre, music, logic,
rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology and zoology were dominant until modern times. His geocentric cosmological theories formed the universal backdrop for the ancient and mediæval worldviews, notably with regard to astrology as formulated by Ptolemy.
Aspects can be Zodiacal (read along the ecliptic) or Mundane (read along the equator), as well as by sign. Whenever more than one of these conditions apply, the aspect is more powerful. See Mundane Aspects.
Asterism
Lunar Mansions.
Asteroids
Asteroids.
Astral
Astral Body
Astral Light
Astral Plane
Astral Travel
Astrolabe
– Source: The Encyclopedia of Astrology
Astrolatry
Astrologer
Astrologian
Astrological Age
Age, Astrological.
Astrologist
Believer in, or follower of, astrology – though not necessarily an actual astrologer
Astrology
Astrometeorology
Astronomer
Astronomy
Atma (Atman)
Atmakaraka
atmakaraka and the temporal
(charaatmakaraka), which is determined by placement of the planets in the signs, also defined as that planet with the highest degree of longitude.
According to Vedic Astrology, there are nine planetary Avatars, one for each of the visible planets, plus Rahu and Ketu, the Moon's Nodes.
Avatar Point
Fixed Signs. Held by some to mark the entry point of divine energy via the planetary Avatar into the cosmos.
Average Daily Motion
Mean Daily Motion.
Aversion
Ayanamsa
Ayurveda
ayur: "life" & ved: "knowledge") is a spiritual discipline as
well as a medical one, seeking balance of the body, emotions, mind and spirit. Strongly rooted in astrology, the method employs herbs, diet, exercise, yoga, massage, aromas, gems, tantras, mantras, and meditation to overcome excesses or deficiencies in elemental life energies. More on Ayurveda.
