PLANETS
It goes retrograde approximately once every two years for about six weeks, and rules the 2nd and 7th signs of the Western Zodiac.
What is Venus?
Associated with hidden enemies, secrets, and illness.
What is the 12th house?
The scales of justice and the sign of one-to-one partnerships.
What is Libra?
Discovered in 1977 in the sign of Aries, it has an elliptical orbit that crosses that of Saturn and Uranus. It is represented by the archetype of the Wounded Healer.
What is Chiron?
This 90 degree aspect is often described as challenging but if effort is applied, it can yield results.
What is the square?
Triplicity ruler of Air signs in a night chart, it can cross the realm of the living and dead. It rules the hands, communication, short travels, and commerce.
What is Mercury?
Mercury rejoices here. Our physical appearances and body.
What is the 1st house?
Often described by the phoenix rising from the ashes. Mars is its traditional ruler.
What is Scorpio?
Taking part of their name from their sun sign, and born 7 August 1860 in Westminster, this person is known for their contributions to modern astrology and the psychological interpretation of the horoscope.
Who Leo (Alan Leo)?
This asteroid is associated with agriculture, harvest, the return of Spring, the cycle of seasons, and archetypes of loss and return.
What is Ceres?
It is the masculine luminary, representing the ego and an individual’s vitality. Jupiter and Saturn are part of its diurnal sect. It is the source of light, giver of heat, and without it, there would be no life on Earth.
What is the Sun?
Where we look for information about siblings, early education, and neighbourhood.
What is the 3rd house?
The opposite to the sign the sun is currently in (today).
What is Aquarius?
The discovery of Uranus in 1781 during this era accelerated the rejection of astrology by society in the West.
What is the (Age of) Enlightenment?
The name for this grouping of signs Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus and Gemini, describes the shorter amount of time to rise and cross over the eastern horizon.
What are Signs of Short Ascension?
In traditional astrology, it is associated with silver, midwives, melons, and described as cold, and moist. In the chart of a country, it represents the mood of the public.
What is the Moon?
In the First Quadrant (in modern astrology), or more precisely the Northeastern Quadrant, it is connected to endings and things underground.
What is the fourth house?
The mutable sign of the fire signs.
What is Sagittarius?
I am the female member of the team that started Project Hindsight in the early 90’s with Robert Schmidt, Robert Zoeller and Robert Hand.
Who is (Ellen) Black?
This point is formed where the Horizon and Ecliptic meet in the East.
What is Ascendant?
Part of the nocturnal sect, it is known as a malefic. When individuals experience its return every 2 years, they may reassess what motivates and drives them.
What is Mars?
Transits here can indicate change of one’s status, or reputation.
What is the 10th house?
Whether done fairly or not, the sign that is usually assigned to amorality.
What is Gemini?
I lived in Baghdad and am one of the most renowned astrologers of the Middle Ages. I wrote the Eight Treatises Regarding the Great Conjunctions, the Annual Revolutions, and Their Origins and am well known for translations of my Arabic works to Latin.
Who is Abu Ma’shar (Albumasar in the Latin West, Ja‘far ibn Muḥammad al-Balkhī )?
A Finger of God is made up of two of this aspect.
What is quincunx?