Terminology

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Cosmos is arranged in a series of

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Eight Spheres

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The First Mover

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The Primum Mobile

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Surrounding Everything, The Divine Heavens

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Empyrean

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Chaldean Order

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Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon (from slowest to fastest)

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Three Worlds

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Intellectual & Angelic; Celestial; Material

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Ecliptick

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The apparent path of the Sun on the celestial sphere. Basis for the ecliptic coordinate system.

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Detriment

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Sign opposite ruling house

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Exaltation

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Saturn: 21 degree of Libra
Jupiter: 15 degree of Cancer
Mars: 28 degree of Capricorn
Sun: 19 degree of Aries
Venus: 27 degree of Pisces
Mercury: 15 degree of Virgo
Moon: 3 degree of Taurus

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Fall

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Sign position directly opposite exaltation
Saturn: Aries (exalted in Libra)
Jupiter: Capricorn (exalted in Caner)
Mars: Cancer (exalted in Capricorn)
Sun: Libra (exalted in Aries)
Venus: Virgo (exalted in Pisces)
Mercury: Pisces (exalted in Virgo)
Moon: Scorpio (exalted in Taurus)

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Peregrine

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No level of reultership over a position.

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Decans

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Decanates, means faces and tenths, 10 degrees in zodiac reckoning.

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Faces

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Decans; the divisions of signs into 10 degree sections, each governed by one planet.

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Retrograde

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to step backwards; the apparent backward motion of the planets through the zodiac as they decrease in longitude as viewed from the Earth.

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Diurnal

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“of the quality of the day”

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Noctunal

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“of the quality of the night”

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Occident

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“falling, setting, perishing, west” Planet is in the East and is after the Sun sets.

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Orient

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“east, rising, emerging” Planet precedes the Sun in diurnal motion and appears in the east in the morning before the Sun.

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Planetary Days

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twenty four planetary hours in a planetary days. First hour of the planetary days begins at sunrise and the last hour of the day ending at sunrise of the next planetary day. Also Known as Unequal Hours

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Unequal Hours

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Planetary Days

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Sunday

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Sun

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Monday

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Moon

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Tuesday

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Mars

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Wednesday

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Mercury

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Thursday

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Jupiter

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Friday

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Venus

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Saturday

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Saturn

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To Find Planetary Hours

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Takes the time from sunrise to sunset and convert to seconds. Divided by twelve to get the length of each planetary hour. Start at sunrise and figure the hour for each day using the Chaldean order to place the planets in each hour they will rule.

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Mundane Houses

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divisions of space based upon the constellations lying in the ecliptic from the observer at a particular point on the Earth

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Ascendant

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The point at which the Zodiac insects the Eastern Horizon; the 1st cusp house

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Descendant

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The point at which the Zodiac insects the Western Horizon; the seventh house cusp

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Midheaven

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The point at which the Zodiac intersects the meridian in the North; the tenth house cusp

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Imum Coeli

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“Below Heaven” The point at which the Zodiac intersects the meridian in the South; forth cusp house

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Zenith

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The point on an imaginary circle that extends from a directly above the observer after intersecting the meridian

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Meridian

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An imaginary circle the extends around the observer out to the planetary line and then south and north around the observer.

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Ephemeris

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Table giving planetary positions over a set period of time.