asteroid seen by modern astrologers as significant. More about Asteroids.
Paracelsus
Parallel Aspect (Zodiacal)
Paran
paranatellonton.
Paranormal
Parapsychology
Pars Fortunæ
Part
a.k.a. Arabic Part, or Lot. The most widely used nowadays is the Pars Fortunæ, or Part of Fortune.
Part of Fortune
Pars Fortunæ. One of the most important of the Arabic Parts, or Lots. The point lies the same distance in longitude from the ascendant as the Moon lies from the Sun. Named for the Roman goddess of luck and
wellbeing, Fortuna (Greek: Tyche). Its house reveals an area of life wherein one finds happiness, good fortune and natural tranquillity, with easy expression of innate abilities. More about the Arabic Parts.
Partile (Partill)
platic.
Penumbra
Peregrine
mutual reception can abate the
debility, strengthening it through the exchange of energies.
Perigee
Apogee.
Perigee-syzygy
SuperMoon.
Perihelion
Aphelion.
Perpendicular
Perseids
meteor shower associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle. Emerging each year in July and August, their radiant lies in the constellation Perseus.
Ghayat al-Hakim, the "Goal of the Wise". A proscribed mediæval Arabic compendium of magical rules and astrological talismanic formulæ, some from early classical sources, influencing
mediæval and renaissance European thinkers including Pico della Mirandola, Marsilio Ficino and Cornelius Agrippa. Known by Rabelais, it was a cause of the arrest by the Inquisition of Casanova. Hitherto available only in Latin, Arabic, Spanish and German, it was first translated from Arabic into English by Hashem Atallah. Books 1 & 2 may be obtained in a limited
edition of 1000 published in 2002 by Ouroboros Press, Seattle WA. A second volume (Books 3 & 4) is in preparation of this rare and valuable treatise, a source of authentic, occult knowledge.
Pisces
Pisces
Pivot
Pivotal
Places
According to Ptolemy, places are the twelfth part of a sign, each being 2°30' of arc in the order of the signs (see dwadishamsha).
Placidus House System
Planet
Planets.
Planet of Oriental Appearance
Planetary Hours
Planetary Hours.
Planetary Rays
Rays.
Planetary Station
station, appearing motionless in the sky. These stationary periods occur at the beginning of the cycle (when the planet first halts
as it prepares to move backwards) and midway through the cycle when the retrograde planet slows to a stop before moving forward again. See Retrograde Planets.
Planetary Strength
Glossary of Horary Astrology]
Platic (Plactic; Platick)
Partile.
Plato
Platonic Solids
cube (regular solid with 6 square faces)
dodecahedron (regular solid with 12 pentagonal faces)
Platonic Year
Platonism
Pleiades
Krittika. In mythology, the Pleiades, seven daughters of Atlas, were half-sisters to the Hyades, another cluster of seven stars in the head of Taurus. Interestingly, in Japan the Pleiades are called Subaru, the name and logo of the Subaru car.
Plotinus
Ammonius Saccas, spending time in Persia before settling in Rome, where he
formulated the philosophy which came to be known as Neoplatonism. These influential teachings are set out in the Enneads, compiled and edited by his disciple Porphry (who developed a useful astrological house system). Following Plato, he holds that the phenomenal world is but a reflection of a real, noumenal world which exists in the mind
of the world-soul, an emanation of the divine mind, the Nous, itself an emanation of the One, the Absolute. Individual souls are also emanations, whose ultimate destiny is to be reunited with the One. Stars and planets are not seen as causes, but rather ensouled emanations, reflecting the nature of things as signs and symbols. True human happiness is to be found through ecstatic union
with the One, a type of enlightenment, of liberation, as seen in Yoga, Tantra, Vedanta and Buddhism. His philosophy has had an immense influence on Astrology and Christianity, along with other strands of belief, religion and philosophy up to the present day. See Neoplatonism.
Pluto
Pluto..
Pluto Square
Plutoid
Pluton
Dwarf Planet.
Polar Elevation
Polarity
masculine (positive; objective; active; conscious; outgoing; hot; dry; penetrative; creative; electric; bright; yang) or feminine
(negative; subjective; passive; subconscious; inward-looking; cool; moist; receptive; nourishing; magnetic; dark; yin). Each sign has been assigned a polarity, starting from Aries (masc.) and alternating between masculine and feminine in zodiacal order. The interaction between the two polarities maintains and develops the harmony and wellbeing of the cosmos and its inhabitants. The polarity of
any relationship is the balance between the masculine and feminine forces at work.
The point opposite to the Sun's placement in a natal chart is called its polarity. This is useful in relationship analysis.
Pole
The Celestial Poles are the two points of intersection of the Earth's axis and the celestial sphere.
Polaris,
the North Star, a Behenian Star in the 29th degree of Gemini.
Ponderous Planets
Superior Planets.
Porphyry
Plotinus. Unfortunately, his main work Introduction to
Astronomy in Three Books is now lost. An opponent of Christianity, he wrote a synthesis of Aristotle and Plato, a work on vegetarianism, a biography of Pythagoras, a commentary of Euclid, an introduction to Ptolemy'sTetrabiblos and developed an astrological House System. His commentary
on Aristotle's Categories led to the later development of the study of Logic. A believer in divine justice (what we might call karma and reincarnation), he held the stars to be signs rather than causes, being part of the rational order of the cosmos.
Porphyry House System
Portion
Postnatal Eclipse
Prana
Precession (of the Equinoxes)
moveable zodiac moves slowly backwards through the sidereal, or fixed zodiac. The discovery of precession is attributed
to the Hellenic scientist Hipparchus in 128 BCE, but it was evidently known to initiates very much earlier, as shown by the alignment of the pyramids and other ancient indicators. There is disagreement among authorities as to the exact position of the Vernal Point (0° Aries) at present, but all are agreed that it means we are approaching the end of the Age of Pisces and entering the
Age of Aquarius.
Preceptor
Precessed Solar Return
Prediction
Predictive Astrology
Event-Oriented Astrology.
Prenatal Eclipse
Prenatal Epoch
Prepollent
Primary Directions
Primary Progression
Prime Vertical
Primum Mobile
The first moved, the eighth and outermost sphere, the "circle of the same", according to Plato, which in its daily motion around the Earth carried the Fixed Stars and constellations. It is the first moved because it was the first
material creation of the creator god, a material reflection of the soul of the universe. It is the circle of the same, as opposed to the circles of difference, the spheres of the planets
Proclus
Neoplatonism through the Christian destruction of the Pagan world in late
antiquity. Head of the Academy in Athens for some 50 years, he composed commentaries on Aristotle, Euclid and Plato, writing on metaphysics, theology, physics, astronomy, mathematics, ethics and traditions of religious wisdom (Orphism and Chaldæan Oracles). Proclus had a lasting influence on the development of the late Neoplatonic
schools in Athens and in Alexandria. In a culture dominated by Christianity, Neoplatonic philosophers defended the superiority of the Hellenic traditions of wisdom. Proclus taught the harmony of the ancient religious revelations (the mythologies of Homer and Hesiod, the Orphic theogonies and the Chaldaean Oracles) and sought to integrate them in the philosophical tradition of Pythagoras and Plato.
Profection
Zodiac X Files]
Prognosis
Progressed Horoscope
Progressed Planet
Progression
Secondary (1 day equals 1 year of life)
Minor (1 lunar month equals 1 year of life)
Prohibition
Promittor (Promissor)
Proper Face
(Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos I:23)
Proper Motion
Retrograde Motion.
Prorogator
Alpheta: planet which upholds life.
Psyche
Psychic
Person who exhibits paranormal abilities, particularly clairvoyance.
Psychokinesis
Psychological Astrology
Psychology
Psychometry
Technique for discovering information, especially for diagnostic purposes, using a device or intermediary, such as a pendulum, or a muscle test.
Psychotherapy
Ptolemaic Aspects
Ptolemaic System
Ptolemy
Copernican heliocentric system in the sixteenth century. His Almagest gave a mathematical basis to astronomy and the Tetrabiblos set out the principles of astrology. His Geography was also a massively influential work which, translated into Latin in the early 1400's
and showing that the world was round, eventually led to the discovery by Europeans of the Americas.
