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abu ma'shar Ninth-century Persian astrologer whose synthesis shaped everything that followed in the west. seed · concept adam elenbaas Founder of Nightlight Astrology, and my own teacher. Traditional technique, modern heart. seed · concept alan white Astrologer and teacher. Notes to come. I want to get this one right rather than fast. seed · concept alexandria Where Greek philosophy, Egyptian temple practice and Mesopotamian omen-lore collided. seed · concept an astrology of causes The competing model: the planets physically act on the world. Ptolemy's position. seed · concept angular, succedent, cadent The three grades of house strength, and why a planet on an angle shouts. seed · concept animism The older assumption underneath astrology: that the world is alive and can be addressed, not just measured. seed · concept annual profections One sign per year of life. The simplest of the Hellenistic timing techniques, and the best first one. seed · concept antiochus of athens The source of the aspect doctrine and the conditions of bonification and maltreatment. seed · concept applying and separating Whether an aspect is still forming or already past. Timing lives here. seed · concept ascensional times Some signs take longer to rise than others. Ancient timing techniques are built on the difference. seed · concept astro.com Astrodienst. Free accurate charts, and the reference most people can actually reach. seed · concept astrocartography The chart mapped onto the globe. Where your planets are angular, geographically. seed · concept astrological determinism Four positions on how much is fixed, and why practitioners have never agreed. seed · concept astrology as divination Reading the sky as a sign rather than a cause. The older of the two explanations. seed · concept austin coppock Traditional astrologer and writer, known for work on the decans. seed · concept aversion Two signs that cannot see each other. The absence of aspect is itself information. seed · concept balbillus Thrasyllus' son, court astrologer to three emperors, and a source for early timing techniques. seed · concept benefics and malefics Jupiter and Venus help. Mars and Saturn cut. Neither is a verdict. seed · concept benjamin dykes Translator of an enormous body of medieval Latin and Arabic astrology. seed · concept berossus The Babylonian priest who set up a school on Kos and carried Babylonian astrology west. seed · concept bonification The conditions under which a benefic genuinely helps a planet. Part 2 material. seed · concept cazimi A planet in the heart of the Sun. The narrow band where invisibility becomes privilege. seed · concept chani nicholas Astrologer and writer whose horoscopes reach an enormous audience. Not my lineage, but probably how a lot of people arrive here. seed · concept chinese astrology A separate system entirely, with twelve animals, five elements, and a sixty-year cycle. seed · concept chiron Discovered in 1977 and adopted fast. The wound, the teacher, or a small icy body, depending who you ask. seed · concept chris brennan Astrologer whose 2017 book is the standard modern reference for Hellenistic practice. seed · concept claudius ptolemy The most famous name in ancient astrology, and the least representative of it. seed · concept combustion Close enough to the Sun to be burned by it. The harmful end of invisibility. seed · concept cosmobiology Reinhold Ebertin's stripped-down method: midpoints and hard aspects, no houses. seed · concept critodemus Early and shadowy figure associated with some of the oldest timing material. seed · concept dane rudhyar The root of humanistic astrology, and the figure who turned the chart into a psychological map. seed · concept dashas Vedic planetary periods. A time-lord system running in parallel to the Hellenistic ones. seed · concept declination and parallels Distance north or south of the celestial equator. A whole second aspect grid. seed · concept demetra george Astrologer and translator; one of the central figures in the modern Hellenistic revival. seed · concept derived houses Counting a new first house from any place, to read one topic from another's point of view. seed · concept detriment and fall A planet in the sign opposite its home or its exaltation. Working uphill. seed · concept dispositor Follow the ruler, then follow ITS ruler. The chain that ends somewhere. seed · concept domicile A planet in the sign it rules. The home team on its home field, and the cleanest form of dignity. seed · concept dorian gieseler greenbaum Scholar and translator; her work on the Lots and on daimon is foundational. seed · concept dorotheus of sidon First-century poet-astrologer whose Carmen is the backbone of the practical tradition. seed · concept egyptian astrology The decans, the temple zodiacs, and the other half of the Hellenistic inheritance. seed · concept electional astrology Choosing a moment to begin something, by picking a favourable chart for it. seed · concept enclosure A planet hemmed in on both sides. Who is doing the hemming decides whether it helps. seed · concept essential and accidental dignity Two different questions: is the planet well placed by sign, and is it well placed by everything else. seed · concept essential dignity How well a planet is placed in the sign it is in. The oldest scoring system in astrology, and the one most often misread. seed · concept evolutionary astrology Reads the chart as the record of a soul's trajectory. Nodes and Pluto do the heavy lifting. seed · concept exaltation A planet honoured as a guest. Strong but not at home, and the difference matters. seed · concept financial astrology Markets, cycles, and the branch that gets taken seriously by people who take nothing seriously. seed · concept firmicus maternus The fourth-century Latin compiler who preserved a great deal that would otherwise be lost. seed · concept fixed stars The named stars behind the zodiac. Older than the signs, and still used. seed · concept good and bad places The tradition ranked the twelve houses. Some are advantageous, some are not. seed · concept harmonics Dividing the circle by any number and reading what appears. A modern research method. seed · concept hellenistic astrology The Greek-language tradition, roughly 100 BCE to 600 CE. The source this site reads from. seed · concept hephaestio of thebes Fifth-century compiler who quotes Dorotheus and Ptolemy at length, and often our only access to them. seed · concept hermes trismegistus The legendary author Hellenistic astrology credits with its founding texts. seed · concept horary astrology Answering a question from the chart of the moment it was asked. seed · concept hypatia Alexandrian mathematician and philosopher, and the reason to ask who else was practising. seed · concept james holden Prolific translator whose editions made many primary texts available in English. seed · concept jeff green The other founding voice of evolutionary astrology, with a Pluto-centred method. seed · concept john frawley Traditional astrologer and teacher, associated with the modern horary revival. seed · concept kelly surtees Traditional astrologer and teacher, and a frequent voice on the podcast circuit. seed · concept kepler college The degree program that taught a generation to take the history of astrology seriously. seed · concept lilith Black Moon Lilith. A calculated point, several competing definitions, and a lot of feeling. seed · concept liz greene Jungian analyst and astrologer; the most influential voice in psychological astrology. seed · concept lord of the year The planet ruling the profected sign. For twelve months, it runs the show. seed · concept maltreatment The conditions under which a malefic genuinely damages a planet. Part 2 material. seed · concept marcus manilius First-century Latin poet whose Astronomica is the earliest surviving complete treatment. seed · concept masculine and feminine A binary Hellenistic astrology applies to planets and signs alike. What it meant then, and how to read it now. seed · concept masha'allah Eighth-century Persian Jewish astrologer, central to the transmission into Arabic. seed · concept mayan astrology The Tzolk'in calendar and its day-signs. Mesoamerican, and not derived from the old world at all. seed · concept medieval astrology The Persian, Arabic and Latin centuries between the Hellenistic tradition and the modern one. seed · concept mesopotamian astrology Where it starts. Omens, the earliest birth charts, and a sky read as a message. seed · concept midpoints The halfway point between two planets, treated as a sensitive spot. seed · concept modern psychological astrology The twentieth-century branch that reads the chart as a map of the psyche. Where most people start. seed · concept morning star and evening star Whether a planet rises before the Sun or sets after it, and why Hellenistic astrology cared. seed · concept mundane astrology The astrology of nations, weather and collective events rather than individuals. seed · concept nechepso and petosiris The pseudonymous king and priest behind the oldest layer of the technical material. seed · concept neptune Dissolution and dream. The trans-Saturnian that erases the edges. seed · planet obliquity of the ecliptic The tilt between the ecliptic and the equator. It causes the seasons, and the signs' unequal rising times. seed · concept olympiodorus Sixth-century Alexandrian philosopher whose lectures on Paulus survive as a commentary. seed · concept overcoming The planet in the superior position wins the exchange. Position, not just distance. seed · concept paulus of alexandria Fourth-century author of a compact introduction that became a standard teaching text. seed · concept planetary hours Each hour of the day ruled by a planet, in the Chaldean order. Ancient, practical, and easy to use. seed · concept planetary speed and stations Fast, slow, stationary. A planet's speed is part of its condition. seed · concept pluto Depth and irreversibility. The trans-Saturnian of what does not return the same. seed · planet porphyry of tyre Neoplatonist philosopher whose Introduction preserves a great deal of Antiochus. seed · concept precession of the equinoxes The slow wobble that pulled the tropical and sidereal zodiacs apart. seed · concept primary motion The whole sky turning east to west once a day. This is what moves the ascendant, and why birth time matters. seed · concept project hindsight The 1990s translation project that put Hellenistic astrology back in practitioners' hands. seed · concept quadrant house systems Placidus, Koch, and the rest. What they do differently, and why this site does not use them. seed · concept reception When a planet sits in a place another planet rules, the ruler is disposed to help it. seed · concept rectification Working backwards from events to find an unknown birth time. Slow, and worth it. seed · concept relocation charts Recasting a birth chart for somewhere you have moved to. Same moment, different horizon. seed · concept rhetorius of egypt The last of the Hellenistic authors, and a crucial summariser of everything before him. seed · concept richard tarnas Cultural historian whose Cosmos and Psyche argues the case for archetypal cosmology. seed · concept robert hand One of the three founders of Project Hindsight, and the editor behind much of the translated corpus. seed · concept robert schmidt The translator whose work made the Hellenistic corpus readable in English. seed · concept robert zoller The third of the Project Hindsight founders; focused on the Latin and medieval material. seed · concept rodden ratings How reliable is that birth time? AA to DD, and why it matters more than people think. seed · concept ruler of the ascendant The chart ruler, given its Hellenistic name and its full job description. seed · concept rulership Every sign has a planet in charge of it. Following that planet is the oldest move in the book. seed · concept secondary motion The planets' own slower drift west to east through the signs. This is what a transit is made of. seed · concept secondary progressions A day for a year. The chart moved forward symbolically rather than actually. seed · concept sect Day chart or night chart. One line splits every birth chart in the world into two piles. ripe · concept serapio of alexandria Author of a surviving set of definitions of the configurations. seed · concept sidereal time Time measured against the stars rather than the sun. What a chart is actually calculated from. seed · concept sign-based aspects Aspects counted whole sign to whole sign, before degrees enter the picture. seed · concept solar arc directions Every point advanced by the Sun's yearly motion. Blunt, and often uncannily exact. seed · concept solar fire The chart software I use. Every date and position on this site comes out of it. seed · concept solar returns The chart for the moment the Sun returns to its natal degree. One year at a time. seed · concept stephen arroyo Writer whose books on the elements and on chart interpretation shaped a generation of readers. seed · concept steven forrest Astrologer and teacher in the evolutionary tradition, known for a warm and non-deterministic style. seed · concept synastry Comparing two charts. Whose planets land where in whose houses. seed · concept synodic cycles Two planets meeting, separating and meeting again. The rhythm underneath the news. seed · concept the angles Ascendant, Midheaven, Descendant, IC. The four pivots the chart turns on. seed · concept the asteroids Ceres, Pallas, Juno, Vesta and thousands more. Modern, optional, and popular. seed · concept the astrology podcast Chris Brennan's long-running show, and the best free archive of serious astrological discussion. seed · concept the bounds Unequal subdivisions of each sign, each with a planetary ruler. Egyptian bounds are the standard set. seed · concept the celestial equator Earth's equator projected onto the sky. The other great circle, and where declination is measured from. seed · concept the celestial sphere The sky as a globe around the earth. The model every chart is drawn from. seed · concept the chaldean order Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon. Slowest to fastest, and the reason for the days of the week. seed · concept the chart ruler The planet that rules your rising sign. If one planet gets the first word, it is this one. seed · concept the composite chart One chart built from the midpoints of two. The relationship as its own entity. seed · concept the conjunction Two planets in the same place. The loudest aspect, and the first one to learn. seed · concept the decans Thirty-six ten-degree divisions, Egyptian in origin and older than the zodiac itself. seed · concept the ecliptic The Sun's apparent path. The line the whole zodiac is measured along. seed · concept the ephemeris The table of where the planets are. Everything else is built on top of it. seed · concept the horary revival The late-twentieth-century return of question-charts, largely from William Lilly's text. seed · concept the joys of the planets Each planet has a house it's glad to be in, and the joys explain where the house meanings came from. seed · concept the lot of fortune The most-used lot, covering body, health and livelihood. It's also the anchor of several timing techniques. seed · concept the lot of spirit Fortune's counterpart. Mind, action, career, and what a person does deliberately. seed · concept the lots Calculated points, the Lot of Fortune chief among them. Ancient, and largely dropped by moderns. seed · concept the lunar nodes Where the Moon's path crosses the Sun's. Eclipses happen here. seed · concept the midheaven The highest point. Career, reputation, and the part of life that is publicly visible. seed · concept the nakshatras Twenty-seven lunar mansions. The layer of Vedic astrology with no western equivalent. seed · concept the opposition Two planets across the chart from each other. Facing off, and aware of it. seed · concept the sect light The Sun by day, the Moon by night. The single most important body in the chart. seed · concept the seven traditional planets Everything visible to the naked eye. The complete cast of Hellenistic astrology. seed · concept the sextile Sixty degrees. Cooperation that has to be taken up rather than given. seed · concept the sidereal zodiac Measured against the fixed stars rather than the seasons. The other answer to where Aries starts. seed · concept the square Ninety degrees. Friction between signs that share nothing. seed · concept the thema mundi The chart of the world's birth. A teaching diagram that explains why the rulerships are what they are. seed · concept the traditional revival How Hellenistic astrology came back: a 1992 conference, three translators, and thirty years of work. seed · concept the trans-saturnians Uranus, Neptune, Pluto. Real, useful, and not part of the traditional system. Here's how this site handles that. seed · concept the trine A hundred and twenty degrees. Same element and easy agreement, sometimes too easy. seed · concept the two motions The sky moves two ways at once, in opposite directions. Almost every confusion about charts starts here. seed · concept thrasyllus First-century astrologer to the emperor Tiberius, and a crucial early systematiser. seed · concept time-lord techniques The family of methods that ask not what a chart says, but WHEN it says it. seed · concept traditional vs modern astrology Two different practices sharing a vocabulary. What actually separates them. seed · concept transmission of astrology How Hellenistic astrology moved from Greek to Persian to Arabic to Latin, and what changed at each step. seed · concept triplicity Each element has three rulers, and which one is in charge depends on sect. seed · concept triplicity rulers of the sect light A three-part division of the life, read from the rulers of the sect light's element. seed · concept tropical vs sidereal zodiacs Two ways to define where Aries starts. The oldest live argument in astrology. seed · concept twelfth-parts Each sign divided into twelve. A magnifying glass on a single degree. seed · concept under the beams A planet too close to the Sun to be seen. Present, working, invisible. seed · concept uranian astrology The Hamburg School. Midpoints, hypothetical planets, and a very different toolkit. seed · concept uranus Rupture and revolution. The trans-Saturnian that breaks the inherited pattern. seed · planet vedic astrology Jyotisha. The Indian tradition, with a sidereal zodiac, an unbroken lineage, and a different set of tools. seed · concept vettius valens Second-century astrologer whose Anthology is the most practical text to survive. seed · concept void of course moon The Moon making no more aspects before it changes sign. Traditionally, a bad time to begin. seed · concept walter mercado The astrologer who reached more people than anyone in the Spanish-speaking world, in a cape, with total sincerity. seed · concept whole sign houses One sign, one house. The oldest house system, and the one this site uses. seed · concept william lilly Seventeenth-century English astrologer whose Christian Astrology is the horary source text. seed · concept zodiacal melothesia The body mapped onto the zodiac, Aries at the head and Pisces at the feet. seed · concept zodiacal releasing A time-lord technique run from the Lots. Chapters of a life, with visible peaks. seed · concept