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GRAND TRINE: When three planets meet each other to form a triangle. This is a harmonious
configuration.
GREAT YEAR: The period when the pole makes a complete circle.
HARD ASPECT: Squares, oppositions and quincunxes. Aspects which create tension and/or friction.
HOUSES: The celestial sphere as a 360 degree circle is divided into twelve sections called houses. They
are numbered counterclockwise from the Ascendant (9:00 position). Each house represents certain
aspects of life. I.C. (Immum Coeli): One of the four major angles of a birth chart. It is the beginning of
the fourth house and is a very personal point in a chart.M.C. (Medium Coeli): One of four major points in
the birth chart and is at the top af the chart (beginning of the tenth house. It represents public life and
reputation.
MASCULINE SIGNS: Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius and Aquarius. Masculine signs are
assertive and self-assured.
MERIDIAN: The Meridian at Greenwich. The point from which time and space is measured. It divides
longitude into east and west.
MIDPOINTS: The midpoint between two planets or angles and sometimes house cusps.
MUTABLE SIGNS: Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces. Flexible nature.
NATAL: Birth. The natal chart refers to a chart for the time of birth.
NODES: The north and south nodes of the moon are those points on the ecliptic where the moon crosses
it going either north or south.
OPPOSITION: An opposition is when planets are exactly opposite each other in the chart wheel.
Oppositions create stress.
ORB: The space in the chart wheel measured in degrees, between planets and points, by which an aspect
may vary from exactness and still remain effective.
POLARITY: Opposite signs effect each other: each sign has a relationship with its partner across the
Zodiac.
PROGRESSION: A method of advancing the planets and points of a natal chart to a particular time after
birth.
QUALITIES: Cardinal, Fixed, Mutable.
QUINCUNX (IN-CONJUNCT): An arc of 150 degrees. An uneasy aspect with karmic lessons.
QUINTILE: An aspect of 72 degrees. An easy aspect representing accomplishments.
RETROGRADE: When a planet appears to be traveling backwards from Earth's perspective. The energy
of a retrograde planet is less assertive.
RULERSHIP: Different signs are "ruled" by different planets and their influences can be affected by this
fact.
SIDEREAL TIME: Time reckoned by the stars rather than by the Sun.SOLSTICE: When the Sun
reaches its maximum declination. This occurs twice a year, at the beginning of Summer and Winter.
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