Chaney W H
William Henry Chaney was born January 13, 1821, in Chesterville, Maine. He was called Professor Chaney in the nineteenth century, professor was often applied to any prominent teacher , and taught astrology for nearly 40 years. He worked for local farmers until aged 16, worked on a fishing schooner for several years, and also spent some time in the navy. He eventually settled in Wheeling, West Virginia, where he studied and practiced law and also edited a newspaper. In 1866, Chaney was in New...
Charis
Charis, asteroid 627 the 627th asteroid to be discovered, on March 4, 1907 , is approximately 36 kilometers in diameter, and has an orbital period of 4.9 years. It was named after a Greek goddess who was surrounded by delight, graces, and pleasures the Charites were the three goddesses of charm and grace Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia. In a natal chart, Charis' sign and house position indicates where and how one experiences delight. When afflicted by inharmonious aspects, Charis may show the...
Business Astrology
Business astrology has often been included within the umbrella of financial astrology. Though both relate to business, the two are very different. Whereas financial astrolo gy focuses on the study of movement of the financial markets, business astrology focuses on the day-to-day workings of an individual company and its leaders. Business astrology also reviews which occupations are best suited for certain individuals and assists a company in putting together a plan. However, these two types of...
Astrodynes
Astrodynes is a technique for obtaining a numerical overview of a person's birth chart. The technique summarizes how much power, harmony, and discord is associated with each planet, each house, and each sign in a chart. Elbert Benjamine of the Church of Light in Los Angeles adopted the terms astrodynes, harmodynes, and discor-dynes for the calculations of astrological energy that he and W. M. A. Drake developed in 1946. Benjamine tested, applied, and evaluated the material and conclusions sent...
Bacchus
Bacchus is asteroid 2,063 the 2,063rd asteroid to be discovered, on April 24, 1977 . It is approximately 1.2 kilometers in diameter and has an orbital period of 1.1 years. Bacchus was named after the god of wine, the Roman equivalent of the Greek Dionysus. According to Mardia Lang-Wescott, Bacchus is related to addictive syndrome, particularly to the denial, substitution, and management of uncomfortable emotions. This asteroid's key word is denial. According to . Lee Lehman, Bacchus represents...
Attila
Attila, asteroid 1489 the 1,489th asteroid to be discovered, on April 12, 1939 , is approximately 15 kilometers in diameter and has an orbital period of 5.7 years. Attila was named after the West's most famous barbarian, Attila the Hun. J. Lee Lehman associates this asteroid with power and dominance issues. Attila, she says, signifies the fighter. The Attila type does not retire gracefully. Jacob Schwartz gives the astrological significance of this asteroid as active dominance to get what one...
Conception Conception Charts
Although genethliacal, or natal, astrology has settled on the birth time as the moment for casting the horoscope, astrologers have long felt that it would also be desirable to cast charts for the moment of conception. Ptolemy, for example, asserted that gender as well as certain other prenatal events could be deduced from the planets at the time of conception. However, the obvious difficulties involved in determining precise conception moments have effectively frustrated astrological research...
Artemis
Artemis, asteroid 105 the 105th asteroid to be discovered, on September 16, 1868 , is approximately 126 kilometers in diameter and has an orbital period of 3.6 years. An illustration of the type of armillary sphere used by the great scientist Tycho Brahe. Reproduced by permission of Fortean Picture Library. Artemis was named after the Greek goddess of the hunt. J. Lee Lehman associates this asteroid with the psychological urges evoked by the hunt hunting, killing, and eating. Jacob Schwartz...
Antivertex
The antivertex is the intersection of the ecliptic with the prime vertical in the east. The intersection in the west forms the vertex. All horoscope angles ascendant, midheaven, etc. are formed by the intersections of great circles. Some suggest interpreting the antivertex as an auxiliary ascendant not as significant as the actual ascendant, but a secondary key to personal action and basic identity instincts. Planets closely by three degrees conjunct the antivertex are like conjunctions to...
Centaurs
Centaurs by definition originate in the Kuiper Belt, whose orbits come inside the outer planets. More specifically, a Centaur possesses a perihelion distance greater than the mean orbital distance of Jupiter from the Sun 5.2026 astronomical units AU and a semi-major less than that of Neptune. Several Centaurs exceed the semi-major axis of Neptune. Recent astrological consensus implies that if the semi-major axis is less than or about that of Pluto 39.537 AU then the object could still be...
Asteroids
An asteroid meaning starlike or small star is one of thousands of small planets, 95 percent of whose orbits lie between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Some have irregular orbits that carry them inside the orbit of Mars the Apollo and Amor groups some, even inside the orbit of Mercury Icarus , Earth and Venus Bacchus and Apollo . Others travel in the same orbital path as Jupiter the Trojan asteroids . Initially, these planetoids were given mythological names, but as telescopes increased in...
Bonatti Guido
The astrologer Guido Bonatti was born in Cascia, Italy, although his birthdate is unclear. We know he was in the Italian cities of Ravenna and Bologna, in 1223, and in Forli by 1233. He was advisor to Frederick II Hohenstaufen, the Holy Roman Emperor. In 1259, Bonatti entered the service of the tyrant Ezzelino III da Romano, and the following year he became astrologer to Count Guido di Montefeltro. Bonatti was the author of the Liber astronomicus sometime after 1282. He died in 1297. In History...
Boomerang
A boomerang is a configuration resembling a yod but involving a fourth planet directly opposed to the action planet at the tip of the yod. In a yod, two planets form a sextile 60 aspect and both in turn form a quincunx 150 aspect with a third planet. If lines were drawn to the center of the horoscope from all three planets, the resulting pattern would look like a capital Y. The planet at the bottom tip of the Y is said to be the action planet because its house placement is where the action...
Ascendant Rising Sign
The ascendant, also called the rising sign, is the sign of the zodiac or, more technically, the specific degree of the zodiac that was on the eastern horizon at the moment for which a horoscope was cast calculated and drawn . On a zodiacal wheel, the ascendant is the sign at the nine o'clock position. In a natal chart, the ascendant indicates a significant influence on the personality only the Sun and Moon exert stronger influences. These three signs the ascendant, the sun sign, and the moon...
Astraea
Astraea, asteroid 5 the 5th asteroid to be discovered, on December 8, 1845, by the German amateur astronomer Karl Ludwig Hencke , is approximately 120 kilometers in diameter and has an orbital period of 4.1 years. Astraea was named after the Roman goddess of justice the familiar blindfolded goddess who holds the scales of justice in one hand and a sword in the other , viewed as the Roman form of the Greek Dike. According to Martha Lang-Wescott, Astraea indicates where people have difficulty...
American Federation of Astrologers
The American Federation of Scientific Astrologers was officially incorporated in Washington, D.C., on May 4, 1938, at 11 38 A.M., Eastern Standard Time. There were 61 charter members, of whom 29 were members of an earlier organization, the American Association of Scientific Astrologers AASA , including Elizabeth Aldrich, Elbert and Elizabeth Benjamine, Ernest and Catharine Grant, George J. McCormack, Lewis Weston, Adrian M. Ziegler, Robert DeLuce, Llewellyn George, Keye Lloyd, and Prem H. Joshi...
Anubis
Anubis, asteroid 1,912 the 1,912th asteroid to be discovered, on September 24, 1960 , is approximately 11 kilometers in diameter and has an orbital period of 4.9 years. Anubis was named after the jackal-headed Egyptian god of the dead, associated with embalming, guarding tombs and, in a later period, the Greek god Hermes. According to J. Lee Lehman, individuals in whose natal chart this asteroid is prominent may rep resent someone for whom death is more than a passing issue. According to Jacob...
Aspect
Aspect from the Latin word aspectus, meaning to view or to look at refers to the angular relationship between various points in a horoscope an astrological chart , especially to a series of named angles, such as trines 120 and squares 90 . For a discussion of the very different notion of aspects in Vedic Astrology, refer to the entry on drishti. The 12 signs of the zodiac, in addition to being bands of astrological influence, also provide astrologers with a system for locating planets and other...
Amor
Amor, asteroid 1,221 the 1,221st asteroid to be discovered, on March 12, 1932 was named after the Roman god of love corresponding to the Greek Eros . It has an orbital period of 2 years and is only 1 kilometer in diameter. Amor is one of the more recent asteroids to be investigated by astrologers. Preliminary material on Amor can be found in Demetra George and Douglas Bloch's Astrology for Yourself an ephemeris table of celestial locations for Amor can be found in the back of the second edition...
AlBiruni
Al-Biruni, whose full name is Abu'l-Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad Al-Biruni, was born in 973 C.E. in what is now Khiva, Uzbekistan formerly part of the Soviet Union . At the time of Al-Biruni's birth, the area was a suburb of Kath, the capital of Khwarizm north and northeast of ancient Parthia on the lower Oxus River in the region south of the Aral Sea . Known to the classical Greeks and Romans as Choras-mia, Khiva was the homeland of a people related to the Sogdian Magi who lived to the south and...
Arachne
Arachne, asteroid 407 the 407th asteroid to be discovered, on October 13, 1895 , is approximately 104 kilometers in diameter and has an orbital period of 4V4 years. Arachne was named after a Greek dyer and weaver who, after a competition with Athena, hanged herself and changed into a spider. This asteroid's key words are entangled and network. According to Martha Lang-Wescott, Arachne indicates reactions to people and situations that are very involved. Jacob Schwartz gives this asteroid's...
American Council of Vedic Astrology
The American Council of Vedic Astrology ACVA was founded in November 1993. This nonprofit educational organization, located in Sedona, Arizona, is the largest Vedic astrology organization in the West and is affiliated with the Indian Council of Astrological Sciences ICAS , founded by B. V. Raman. The ACVA has offered a forum for Vedic astrologers of all types and backgrounds, and has served as a network for them to connect and share their views. ACVA offers a 600-hour certification program for...
Apollon
Apollon is one of the eight hypothetical planets sometimes referred to as the trans-Neptunian points or planets, or TNPs for short utilized in Uranian astrology. The Uranian system, sometimes referred to as the Hamburg School of Astrology, was established by Friedrich Sieggrun 1877-1951 and Alfred Witte 1878-1943 . It relies heavily on hard aspects and midpoints. In decline for many decades, it has experienced a revival in recent years. Apollon indicates expansiveness and multiplicity. It can...
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Abu Ma'shar X Abundantia X Accidental Ascendant X Accidental Dignity X Achilles X Acronycal X Adad X Adams, Evangeline X Adjusted Calculation Date X Admetos X Adorea X Aestival Signs X Aeternitas X Affinity X Affliction X Age of Aquarius Aquarian Age X Ages of Man X Agricultural Astrology Planting by the Signs X Air Signs X Albedo X Al-Biruni X Alcoholism X Aletheia X Almagest X Almanac X Almuten X Altitude X Ambrosia X American Council of Vedic Astrology X American Federation of Astrologers X...
Antiscion
Antiscion is a somewhat confusing term that has, unfortunately, come to be used for more than one notion. Picture the wheel of the zodiac and imagine a straight line from 0 Cancer to 0 Capricorn so as to divide the circle into two equal halves. If a planet is located at an angular distance of 45 away from this dividing line e.g., at 15 Taurus , its antiscion would be 45 in the opposite direction from the line e.g., at 15 Leo . If another planet happens to be located at or very near the...
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Kabbalah and Astrology X Kassandra X Katababazon X Katharsis X Kepler College of Astrological Arts and Sciences X Kepler, Johannes X Kite X Koch House System X Koch, Walter A. X Kochunas, Bradley Wayne X Koiner, Lynn X Kolisko Effect Kolisko Experiments X Krafft, Karl Ernst X Krittika X Kronos Lacrimosa X Laetitia X Lamb X Lancelot X Latitude X The Law and Astrology X Leo X Leo, Alan X Levine, Joyce X Lewi, Grant X Libra X Lilith X Lilly, William X Lion X Local Mean Time X Logarithms X...
Age of Aquarius Aquarian Age
The Age of Aquarius is one of 12 successive 2,150-year periods, each of which corresponds with one of the 12 signs of the zodiac. In the same manner in which individuals born at different times of the year are thought to be dominated by different astrological signs, astrologers also tend to view different historical periods as being dominated by the influence of particular signs. According to this view, Earth, for the past several thousand years, has been passing through a period dominated by...
Abundantia
Abundantia, asteroid 151 the 151st asteroid to be discovered, on November 1, 1875 , is approximately 42 kilometers in diameter and has an orbital period of 4.1 years. Its name is Latin for affluence or abundance. Abundantia's location by sign and house in a natal chart may show where one experiences the most abundance or an area that can be cultivated to achieve affluence. Kowal, Charles T. Asteroids Their Nature and Utilization. Chichester, West Sussex, UK Ellis Horwood Limited, 1988. Room,...
Admetos
Admetos is one of the eight hypothetical planets sometimes referred to as the trans-Neptunian points or planets, or TNPs for short utilized in Uranian astrology. The Uranian system, sometimes referred to as the Hamburg School of Astrology, was established by Friedrich Sieggrun 1877-1951 and Alfred Witte 1878-1943 . It relies heavily on hard aspects and midpoints. In decline for many decades, it has experienced a revival in recent years. Admetos may symbolize blockage, patience, frustration,...
Aeternitas
Aeternitas, asteroid 446 the 446th asteroid to be discovered, on October 27, 1899 , is approximately 52 kilometers in diameter and has an orbital period of 4.7 years. Its name is Latin for eternity, and refers to the immortality achieved by deification. When prominent in a natal chart, Aeternitas may indicate a person with interest in the eternal verities or one who can expect a long life. Kowal, Charles T. Asteroids Their Nature and Utilization. Chichester, West Sussex, UK Ellis Horwood...
Contributors
The author wishes to thank the following contributors, who provided the entries listed. Tishelle Betterman Neptune Pluto Linda R. Birch Uranus Venus Bernadette Brady Fixed Stars Nick Campion Mundane Astrology Karen Christino Adams, Evangeline Stephanie Jean Clement, Ph.D. Planet-Centered Astrology Vocational Astrology Donna Cunningham Flower Remedies and Astrology Michele Delemme Cat Rabbit Chinese Astrology Dog Dragon Goat Horse Monkey Ox Buffalo Pig Boar Rat Roell, David R. Snake Tiger Meira...