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Astrology

Ancient astronomy. In its current understanding, the belief in the effect of celestial bodies on the lives of humans and world events.

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obliquity

Astrology; General astrology

The angle formed between the ecliptic (the plane of the Earth's orbit) and the celestial equator.

orb

Astrology; General astrology

An aspect between planets or sensitive points is usually allowed some inexactitude, which is called its orb of influence.

out-of-sign

Astrology; General astrology

A dissociate aspect; one which, though within orb, is not within the bounds of the aspecting sign.

Pallas Athene

Astrology; General astrology

The warrior queen, the principle of creative intelligence and wisdom. An asteroid seen by modern astrologers as significant.

parallel aspect

Astrology; General astrology

Planets having equal distance in declination on the same side (either north or south) of the celestial equator.

paran

Astrology; General astrology

The simultaneous rising, setting, or culminating of planets or stars, featuring an angular relationship between the planet and the fixed star in a chart.

penumbra

Astrology; General astrology

The lighter, outer zone of the Moon's shadow visible during a solar eclipse. It surrounds the umbra, or dark central zone of the shadow.