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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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ellipse
Astrology; General astrology
A somewhat flattened, elongated circle, or oval shape. Planetary orbits were demonstrated by Kepler to be ellipses, rather than circles as had previously been believed.
emersion
Astrology; General astrology
A planet coming from under the Sun's beams so as to be seen after an eclipse or occultation.
empedocles
Astrology; General astrology
Distinguished pre-Socratic Greek magus, healer and mystic philosopher, born in Sicily, who flourished in the 5th Century BCE. Among other notable scientific intuitions, he ...
ephemeris
Astrology; General astrology
Tables of planetary places used to find their positions in the zodiac. Now widely available in computerised form.
epicycles
Astrology; General astrology
Circles attached to the planetary spheres. Introduced to maintain aristotelian circular motion of planets, in order to explain retrograde motion of planets in the ancient ...
equal house system
Astrology; General astrology
House system in which the zodiac is divided into 12 equal houses of 30° each, commencing from the first house cusp, the degree of the Ascendant. This means that the MC is not ...
equal power
Astrology; General astrology
Beholding Signs. Ptolemy says: "the parts which are equally removed from the same tropical sign, whichever it may be, are of equal power, because when the sun comes into either of ...
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