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Saros.
(1)
A Chaldean and Babylonian
interpretation of a cycle of 60
days as 60 years. (2)
60 sixties, or 3,600. (3)
A lunar cycle of 6,585.32 days -
223 lunations; or 18 years, 11
1/3 days. In this period the
centers of Sun and Moon return
so nearly to the same relative
places that the eclipses of the
next period recur in
approximately the same sequence
- but with their zone of
visibility shifted 120° to the
Westward. (v. Eclipses.)
Because the Node recedes 19.5 a
year, the Sun meets the same
Node in 346.62 days - the
eclipse year. As this does not
coincide with the Lunar periods,
the Sun moves past the node a
degree a day for as many days as
it takes for the Moon to reach a
conjunction or opposition. Thus
either a Solar or Lunar Eclipse
may occur before or after the
Sun reaches the Node, or both
before and after. If the
Lunation occurs within 2 or 3
days before or after the Sun
reaches the Node there may be no
accompanying Lunar Eclipse, as
on Dec. 3, 1918 and May 29, 1919
(Saros Series 11).
If the Lunation or Full Moon
occurs from 4 to 9 days before
the Sun reaches the Node, there
will be a Lunar Eclipse followed
by a Solar Eclipse, or the
reverse. If the Lunation occurs
from 10 to 12 days before the
Sun reaches the Node there may
be a series of three Eclipses: a
Solar before the Node, a Lunar
at the Node, and another Solar
when the Sun has passed beyond
the Node. Associated with this
are certain values:
......................................................Days
...242 returns of the Moon to
a particular
Node.......6585.36
....19 returns of the Sun to
the same
Node............6585.78
...233 Synodic
months.................................6585.32
Saturn
chasing the Moon.
This is
one of the most powerful of
Saturnian conditions. Since the
progressed Moon takes twenty-eight
and Saturn thirty years to
complete the circle, the two may
in rare cases, approximately
coincide. An affliction of the
Moon by Saturn is of itself one of
the most unfortunate of aspects;
for when the aspect is close and
the progressing Moon moves at
about the same rate as Saturn, a
transit of Saturn to the Moon can
persist indefinitely - often for a
lifetime: thus resulting in a
double affliction. However, the
condition can occur only where the
Moon at birth is in conjunction,
square or opposition to Saturn.
Saturnine.
One of a dour disposition - a
meaning borrowed wholly from
Astrology, which defines it as one
who has a strong Saturn accent.
Saturnalia. The
Roman festival of Saturn which
annually on Dec. 17 began a week
of feasting.
Satellite.
A planet or moon that revolves
about another. The Moon is a
satellite of the Earth; and
according to Newton, both are
satellites of the Sun. In modern
Astrology it is confined to a body
which revolves around one of the
planets in our solar system.
Satellitium.
Stellium. A group of five or more
planets in one Sign or House. In
an angle it portends great changes
of fortune, the good and the bad
coming in patches. Heavy falls are
succeeded in due course by a
spectacular comeback, and vice
versa. Such persons usually have
many acquaintances, but few real
friends. They can hardly fail of
considerable recognition at some
periods of their lives.
Scorpio.
The eighth sign of the zodiac. v.
Signs.
Secondary Progressions.
Zodiacal aspects formed by the
orbital motions of the planets
on successive days after birth,
each day accounted the
equivalent of one year of life.
Aspects are calculated to the
birth positions of the
luminaries, planets and angles,
and mutual aspects are formed
between the progressed planets.
The application of this system
of forecasting future
conditioning that may be
expected to crystallize in
events, involves the directing
of the Midheaven, Ascendant and
the Sun by their natural
progress in the heavens after
birth. The Sun and the Midheaven
progress at an average rate of
59'08" per day (the
so-called "Naibod
Arc"), to form aspects to
the radical positions of the
planets, while the planets move
at varying rates to form aspects
to the radical positions of the
Significators. The most
dependable factor in Secondary
Progressions is the advancing of
the progressed Moon, forming
aspects to the radical and
progressed places of the planets
and to the places of the
Significators, which are
interpreted according to the
places in which the aspects fall
by Sign and House.
With specific reference to the
progressions of the Moon it is
generally considered: that such
aspects produce strong though
gradual effects of about one
month's duration; that the month
when the progressed Moon is
approaching a square to her own
radical place is generally
marked by accidents and
infirmities, the next preceding
semi-square usually giving an
indication of the nature of the
crisis or physical ailment that
can be expected to develop; that
trine and sextile aspects of the
transitory and of the progressed
Moon to the radical Moon
generally outline favorable days
and months; and that square and
opposition aspects also strongly
influence and that adversely,
forming critical periods around
the 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th day
and year.
In general it is held that
directions act in terms of the
Radix and that when the Nativity
is unfortunate no favorable
direction can have the same
efficacy as an adverse one; and
vice versa when the Nativity is
fortunate. In other words, the
accidental good cannot overcome
the radical evil. (v. Radix
System.)
The revised Sepharial Dictionary
defines Secondary Progressions
somewhat misleadingly as those
based upon the progress of the
Moon in the zodiac. However, the
aspects formed by the Moon in
the Secondary system are
important, and some authorities
hold that unless they are of the
same nature as the Primary
Directions, hence tend to
strengthen their operation, the
primary directions will have
little effect; but when they do
coincide, a decided influence
will be traceable in the life of
the person whose chart is under
consideration. According to this
a Primary Direction would not
function until such time as the
progressed Moon forms an aspect
of a similar nature. v.
Directions.
In calculating Progressions by
the system of taking the
positions of the planets as
given in the Ephemeris for the
next day following birth, as the
equivalent of their progressed
positions at the end of the
first year of life, use may be
made of this table. [Apolo's
Note: 'd.'
means 'day'; 'h.'
means 'hour(s)'; 'm.'
means 'minute(s)'; 's.'
means 'second(s)'.]
......1 d. = 1 year
......2 h. = 1 month
.....30 m. = 1 week
......4 m. = 1 day
......1 m. = 6 hours
.....10 s. = 1 hour
Seer.
One who sees; a crystal gazer; a
person endowed with second sight;
one who foresees future events - a
prophet; astrologically, one whose
extra-sensory perceptions enable
him to vizualize the ultimate
effects that will result from the
cosmic causes portrayed in a birth
Figure.
Semi-Arc.
That portion of a celestial body's
apparent daily travel, during
which it remains above the
horizon, from its rising to its
setting, is called its diurnal
arc; hence half of the arc, from
horizon to midheaven, is its
Diurnal Semi-Arc. The other half,
most of which is under the earth,
is its nocturnal arc, and half of
it becomes the Nocturnal Semi-Arc.
The Sun's semi-arc, diurnal or
nocturnal, when in 0° Aries or 0°
Libra, is six hours or 90° all
over the Earth. At other seasons
the one is greater or less than
the other, according to the time
of the year and the latitude of
the place. The greatest
discrepancy occurs where the N. or
S. latitude is high, and when the
Sun is in 0° Cancer or 0°
Capricorn. The semi-arc is usually
measured in degrees of R. A.
passing over the Meridian;
although it can be expressed in
terms of time.
Semi-decile.
An 18º aspect (v.
Quintile).
Semicircle.
v. Lunar; Solar.
Semi-sextile.
A 30º aspect. (q.v.)
Semi-square.
A 45º aspect. (q.v.)
Senses, Significators
of the.
Generally
accepted as the significators
of the five physical senses,
are:
Mercury,...sight
Venus,.....touch
Mars,......taste
Jupiter,...smell
Separating,
separation.
v.
Aspects.
Sesqui-quadrate.
A 135º aspect (q.v.)
Sesquiquintile.
A 108º aspect (q.v.)
Seven.
Anciently the number of the
bodies presumed to make up our
solar system, to which number
was ascribed a magical
significance. Identified with
them were the days of the week
and the seven notes of the
Diatonic scale. In 1666 Newton
ascribed to them the seven hues
of the spectrum. READ
COMPLETE ARTICLE
Sexagenary.
(1) A scale
of numbers or a method of
computation that proceeds by
sixties - as in degree, minutes
and seconds. (2)
Said of tables prepared for
the purpose of showing
proportional parts of the
number 60°: giving the
product of two sexagenary
numbers multiplied; or the
quotient of two such when
divided.
Sextile.
A 60º aspect (q.v.)
Sextiles.
A body sextiles another toward
which it is approaching from a
distance of from 53º to
60º.
Sidereal Clock.
A clock found in every
astronomical observatory,
which is set to register oh
om os when 0° Aries is on
the Zenith. Formerly a noon
point, but since 1925 a
midnight point, it moves
forward in the zodiac by 1°,
or 4 minutes, each day,
hence the Sidereal Time at
noon (or midnight if since
1925) on any day shows what
sign and degree is on the
M.C. at that particular
moment. For example, ST at
0h, or midnight, on May 1,
1945 is 14h 34m 14s: approx.
874m / 4 = 218 degrees
= approx. 8° Scorpio on M.C.
The Sidereal Clock indicates
24h, while the solar
chronometer registers 23h
56m 4.0906s of Mean Solar
Time. It does not register
A.M. or P.M., but divides
the dial into 24 hourly
periods. The so-called Army
and Navy time of World War
11 indicates the eventual
universal use of the same
system applied to solar
time, whereby for example, 2
P.M. will be known as 1400.
After the Sidereal clock has
been set at 0h to coincide
with the moment of the
Earth's crossing the
intersecting point of the
Ecliptic and Equator, the
next noon it will read
something like 12:04 - the
distance the Earth has
travelled in orbit in one
solar day, shown in units of
time. Thus each successive
day at noon it shows the
cumulative amount of the
Earth's orbital travel since
noon on the day of the
equinox. Thereby sidereal
time becomes the hour angle
of the Vernal Equinox, and
the Earth's position at
Greenwich Noon on any day
can be expressed in terms of
hours, minutes and seconds.
Its position along the
ecliptic is expressed in
degrees and minutes of
longitude, and along the
equator in degrees and
minutes of Right Ascension.
Sidereal
Day.
The interval
between two successive
transits of the first
point of Aries over the
upper meridian of any
place. The Sidereal Day is
equal to 23h 56m 4.09s of
mean solar time, and it
has sidereal hours, each
of 60 sidereal minutes,
each minute of 60 sidereal
seconds.
Sidereal Time.
A method of
time-reckoning based
upon the period elapsing
between two successive
passages of some
particular star, taken
as a fixed celestial
point, over a given
point on the
circumference of the
Earth. During one such
rotation the Sun's
apparent orbital travel
has amounted to
approximately 1°, hence
the return of a given
point on the Earth to
the same relationship
with the Sun requires
added travel to the
extent of 1° of arc or
4 minutes of time. Thus
each calendar
anniversary shows an
annual net gain of 1°,
which is the basis of
all systems of
progressed influences.
The S.T. at any moment
is the angular distance
along the Ecliptic from
0° Aries, the point of
the Spring Equinox, to
the meridian of a given
place at noon on a given
day, expressed in h. m.
s. The Right Ascension
of the Meridian (RAMC)
is a similar angular
distance along the
Equator expressed in
degrees and minutes of
arc.
When the Spring
equinoctial point is on
the observer's meridian
it is S.T. 0h. When that
degree has moved 15° it
is 1h S.T. Thus the time
required for the
equinoctial degree to
move to a certain
advanced position
becomes the unit through
which that position is
expressed. To determine
the sidereal time for a
given moment at a
certain place, take from
the ephemeris the ST for
that date and apply
certain corrections,
viz.: If the ephemeris
is for any other
meridian than Greenwich
make sure to take that
into account, adding or
subtracting your
distance from this
meridian, not from
Greenwich; also add or
subtract 12 hours if you
are calculating your
time-interval from
midnight.
Additions to this S.T.
for stations west of the
zone meridian are made
in degrees expressed in
solar mean time, four
minutes for each degree,
which must be further
converted by adding
0s.657 for each degree
to reduce the additions
to sidereal time. The
hours added for the
elapsed time since oh
must also be adjusted in
the same proportion. v.
Time.
Sign.
One
of the Twelve Signs of the
Zodiac. The annual
revolution of the Earth
round the Sun is divided
into the 360° of a
circle, a division that
mathematically and
astronomically is
universally accepted. The
subdivisions of the circle
into 12 equal arcs,
distinguished by names,
are known as the Signs of
the Zodiac. They no longer
bear any relationship to
the constellations of the
same name. READ
COMPLETE ARTICLE
Signs, and the
Disciples.
It
is commonly considered
from the many New
Testament
pronouncements of
astrological doctrine,
that the Twelve
Disciples were chosen,
each to represent a
different one of the
twelve fundamental
types and qualities
with a ruling Trinity
of the central Sun
(the Father) whose
spiritual and
intellectual light
(the Holy Spirit)
reflected by the Moon
(the Son) flowed out
through these twelve
apostles into all the
world-representing
humanity divided into
its twelve basic
types. The disciples
considered this order
so important that
after Judas's betrayal
Mathias took his place
as one of the twelve.
Aries:
Peter,
the fiery, impulsive,
changeable, pioneering
leader, who eventually
became the rock upon
which was founded the
New Church "of
the Lamb."
(Initiating:
inspirational)
Taurus:
Simon Zelotes, the
dogmatic, determined
zealot; who was
concerned with
property and finances,
rebelled against the
payment of taxes, and
received from Jesus
the admonition -
"Render unto
Caesar the things that
are Caesar's."
(Fixed: materialistic)
Gemini:
James,
"the
lesser." Slow to
accept the
authenticity of the
Messiah, but became
the eloquent preacher
of the church in
Jerusalem, and an
active evangelist and
exhorter. (Mutable:
intellectual)
Cancer:
Andrew, the
sympathetic homebody,
a follower of John the
Baptist, whose first
thought when he
discovered the Messiah
was to run quickly and
fetch his brother
Simon. (Initiating:
sympathetic)
Leo:
John, the most beloved
apostle. (Fixed:
inspirational)
Virgo:
Philip,
always precise,
calculating,
enquiring, and
practical. (Mutable:
materialistic)
Libra:
Bartholomew-Nathaniel,
the innocently pure
one "in whom
there is no
guile." The
tactful, persuasive
evangelist.
(Initiating:
intellectual)
Scorpio:
Thomas,
the doubting skeptic,
yet bold and
courageous. (Fixed:
sympathetic)
Sagittarius:
James, the great
teacher, who with
Peter and John became
the spiritual leaders
of the early church:
the three fire sign
types cooperating.
(Mutable:
inspirational)
Capricorn:
Matthew, the tax
gatherer, the
politician, the one in
authority in the
governing seat in
Rome. (Initiating:
materialistic)
Aquarius:
Thaddeus-Jude, who
considered the lot of
the peasant, and
sought to better the
living and working
conditions of the
masses; and who
interrogated Jesus at
the Last Supper as to
how he would manifest
himself. (Fixed:
intellectual)
Pisces:
Judas Iscariot, who
when he succumbed to
temptation suf- fered
severe pangs of
remorse. (Mutable:
sympathetic)
Signs, The
Symbology of Twelve.
Dr. Curtiss
characterized the
evangelistic authors of
the four gospels, in
terms of the fixed types
of the four elemental
groups, in this fashion:
.......Matthew-Aquarius........To
Know.
.......Mark-Leo................To
Dare.
.......Luke-Taurus.............To
Do.
.......John-Scorpio............To
Keep Silent.
READ
COMPLETE ARTICLE
Signs
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Signs,
Classifications of: There
are many groupings and
classifications of Signs
according to a variety
of characteristics and
effects. It must be
emphasized that these
are not based solely on
the presence of the Sun
in the Sign, but may be
evidenced in greater or
lesser degree by virtue
of any accent in the
Sign; such as the
presence therein of the
Ascendant, Moon, several
planets, or a strongly
aspected planet.
READ COMPLETE ARTICLE
Significator.
A planet may be taken
as a significator of a
person or of an event,
or of affairs ruled by
a House. Its strength
by virtue of its Sign
and House position and
its relationship by
aspects are then
consulted in arriving
at a judgment
concerning a desired
condition. In general
the strongest planet
in the Figure, usually
the ruler of the
Ascendant, is taken as
the Significator of
the native. Similarly
the Ruler of the Sign
on the cusp of the
Second House is taken
as the Significator of
wealth, of the Seventh
House of the partner,
of the Eighth of the
partner's wealth, and
so on. Sepharial
speaks of the Sun,
Moon, Ascendant and
Midheaven as
Significators, but
Alan Leo prefers to
speak of them as
Moderators, and
includes Fortuna. The
Sun and Midheaven are
by some authorities
deemed to have
affinity as
Significators of the
honor, credit, and
standing of the
subject of the Figure,
or of the surviving
male head of the
family; the Moon and
Ascendant to have
affinity as
Significators of the
personal fortunes,
changes and accidents
befalling the native;
Mercury, of his
learning, intellectual
accomplishments or
business acumen;
Venus, of his
love-affairs, social
arts and
accomplishments; Mars,
of strikes,
contentions,
enterprises and risks;
Jupiter, of wealth and
increase; and Saturn,
of disease, loss,
death and decay. In
this use there is
danger of confusing
the distinction
between a Significator,
as representing
persons in Horary
Astrology, and
Promittors as
representative of
things promised or
desired; but every
planet in the Figure
can be taken not only
as the significator of
something, but also as
the Promittor of
something.
Sinister.
A left-handed aspect -
not, however, with
reference to the
proper motion of the
aspecting body, but to
its apparent motion. v.
Dexter.
Slow
of Course.
v.
Planetary Motions.
Solar
Astrology.
The presumption that
the Solar Horoscope is
of value only as a
make-shift when an
exact hour of birth is
unobtainable, is
rapidly giving way to
a realization of its
genuine merits.
Strictly speaking, it
is not an hour-scope
but a day-scope; yet
it is the same cycle
of hour-to-hour dally
experiences through a
rising series of
sensitive points,
whether it begins with
an ascendant degree or
with the omnipotent
Sun degree. READ
COMPLETE ARTICLE
Solar
Cycle, or Cycle of
the Sun.
A
28-year period
applicable to the
Julian calendar, in
which the first day
of the year is
restored to the same
day of the week.
Since the days of
the week are 7, and
the number of years
in an intercalary
period are 4, their
product (4 x 7 = 28)
must include all
possible
combinations. At the
end of each cycle,
the Dominical
letters return again
in the same order on
the same days of the
month. v.
Calendar.
Solar Day
The time clasping
between two
consecutive passages
of the Sun over a
fixed point on the
Earth. It is in
excess of one
complete revolution,
by 1° of longitude
or 4 minutes of
time. v. Day.
Solar
Equilibrium.
A term used by
recent astrologers
with reference to
the Solar Figure:
one cast for sunrise
on a given day, but
with houses of
uniformly thirty
degrees each.
Solar
Revolution.
A horoscopical
figure erected for
the moment in any
year when the Sun
has reached the
exact Longitude it
occupies in the
Radix. From this
figure and from
aspects of Radical
planets to
significators - Sun,
Moon, Ascendant and
Midheaven degrees -
in the Solar
Revolution map
predictions are made
cov- ering the
ensuing year. For
example, the Solar
Revolution Moon
conjunct radical
Mars, indicates a
year ominous of
accidents -
especially on the
days on which the
Sun or Moon conjoins
Mars. Also it can be
judged within
itself, in which
case, current Solar
transits should be
observed. READ
COMPLETE ARTICLE
Solar
Semicircle.
Leo to Capricorn,
inclusive.
Solar
System. The
cosmic influences by
which a dweller on
the Earth is
conditioned (v.
Cosmic Conditioning),
and motivated, are
almost exclusively
confined to forces
present and manifest
within the Solar
System, which
consists of the Sun,
and the planets
which revolve in
orbits around the
Sun chiefly in
response to its
gravitational
pull. READ
COMPLETE ARTICLE
Solar
System bodies:
Sun. To
the Egyptians it was
Ra, Amen, Aten, or
Osiris, each with a
different religious
significance. The
winged globe in
Egyptian art is a
familiar
representation of
the solar orb.
Atenism, the first
impersonal concept
of the Deity,
worshipped only
"the power
which came from the
Sun," and
forbade any emblem
or idol that would
tend to substitute a
symbol for the thing
itself. To The
Persian it was
Mithras; to the
Hindu, Brahma; to
the Chaldean, Bel;
and to the Greek,
Adonis and Apollo.
In Free-masonry Sol-om-on,
the name of the Sun
in three languages,
is an expression of
light. READ
COMPLETE ARTICLE
Solar
System Bodies:
Moon.
A satellite
of the Earth,
which to different
civilizations has
also been known as
Luna, Soma, Isis;
the "mother
of the
Earth." It
has given us the
name for the first
day of the
week-Monday; also
lunacy, lunatic,
moonstruck.
Solar
System Bodies:
Mercury.
A small
planet, with
pale bluish
light; the
planet closest
to the Sun.
Never more than
28 degrees from
the Sun, it is
rarely visible
to the naked
eye. The Roman
god Mercury and
the Greek god
Hercules, the
winged messenger
of the Gods,
were endowed
with the
qualities that
are associated
with the
influence of the
planet Mercury.
To the Chaldeans
it was Nebo, the
planet of
warning; also
associated with
Buddha, the
wise.
Solar
System bodies:
Venus.
A brilliant
planet
reflecting a
silvery-white
light, it is
the most
brilliant
object that
illuminates
the evening
sky. The
Greeks
associated it
with
Aphrodite. To
the Romans, it
was known as
Lucifer, when
the Morning
Star: and
Vesper, when
the Evening
Star. To the
Chaldeans it
was Ishtar,
and compared
to the
Sumerian
virgin mother,
the "Lady
of
Heaven,"
and the
goddess of
fertility.
Solar
System Bodies:
Earth.
The planet we
inhabit.
Astrologically,
the Earth is
the center of
its universe,
since one is
concerned not
with the
position of
the planets in
reference to
the Sun, but
with the angle
from which
their
reflected
frequencies
enter into the
experience of
those who
dwell upon the
Earth. When
one speaks of
the Sun's
position he is
but expressing
the position
of the Earth
in its orbit
in terms of
the apparent
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