General astrology

General astrology

Astrology consists of a number of belief systems which hold that there is a relationship between visible astronomical phenomena and events in the human world.

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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

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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 revealed the universal ...

ephemeris

Astrology; General astrology

Tables of planetary places used to find their positions in the zodiac. Now widely available in computerised form.

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 geocentric Ptolemaic system. ...

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 necessarily the cusp of ...

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 them the days are ...