Astrology Glossary
Ascendant:
This sign was rising on the eastern skyline during childbirth and sets up the main house in the birth graph .
Aspect:
A geometrical connection between planets in an astrology diagram.
Birth Chart:
A graph of the divine bodies, as they showed up at a particular time.
Cardinal:
Activity, initiative, administration. Includes: Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn.
Cusp:
The point at which a sign or house begins.
Relative:
The angle that restricts the Ascendant. Begins the seventh house.
Nobility:
A planet that lives in the sign is rules, giving it more quality.
Earth:
The component related with common sense, conservatism, realism.
Elements:
Earth, Air, Fire, Water. All signs are delegated one of these.
Fire:
The component related with vitality, energy, warmth, lack of caution.
Houses:
Territories of movement.
Midheaven:
The angle at the highest point of the diagram tenth cusp that speaks to people in general face.
Midpoints:
The correct point between two planets or house cusps.
Mutable:
Versatile, scattering of vitality. Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces.
Nodes:
Karmic indicators of the Moon.
Orb:
The measure of degrees in which a viewpoint is as yet powerful.
Advanced Chart:
Multi day for multi year formula is connected to perceive how a natal graph develops.
Retrograde:
The apparent in reverse movement of a planet as observed by the Earth.
Ruler:
The planet that has dominion over a certain sign.
Sun powered Return Chart:
A horoscope cast for the correct minute the Sun comes back to its original spot in the natal outline.
Stellium:
A grouping of planets together as found in the birth outline. .
Succedent Houses:
Houses 2,5,8,11 that don’t contact angles. .
Transit:
The entry of a planet to a touchy point in the horoscope. .
Water:
The component related with feeling, otherworldliness.