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29th Degree: The final degree (29th degree) of any Sign. It is also known as the degree of fate.

Accidental: Ascendant From Evangeline Adams' horary technique in which an Ascendant is determined according to the time and date of the questions, and the querent's natal horoscope is rotated according . . . View Full Definition

Accidental Dignity: A planet that occupies its house of natural rulership or falls within 5° of an angle is said to be accidentally dignified. The term is also applied to planets in angular houses and to the mo . . . View Full Definition

Acronical Place: From the Greek akronychos, at sunset. The position occupied by a planet when it is opposite the Sun.

Adjusted Calculation Date: The day on which the planetary position shown in an Ephemeris coincide with the progressed positions of the planets. The adjusted calculation date (also called the artificial birthday) remai . . . View Full Definition

Admetos: Sixth symbolic planet used in Uranian astrology.

Advantage Line: An imaginary axis that connects the third decan of the third and ninth houses. The Moon's North Node east of this axis is thought to be in a favorable or advantageous position.

Affinity: A mutual attraction or innate congeniality.

Afflicted: Used to describe a planet which is unfavorably aspected; squares, oppositions and quincunxes. An ancient term which is still commonly used.

Affliction: A term from traditional astrology used to describe adverse aspects, especially those formed by malefics.

Age Of Aquarius: The Great Year that begins around the turn of the twenty-first century and lasts for two thousand years. Universal developments of an Aquarian nature are expected to take place during this era.

Air Signs: Gemini, Libra and Aquarius, traditionally associated with the air element and members of the air triplicity. These signs indicate free-flowing expression of areas of communication ant the intellect.

Akashic Records: The memory of nature. Akashic is a Sanskrit term referring to the etheric substratum of the universe. A permanent record of every event, sound, sight, or thought that has occurred during the . . . View Full Definition

Alpheta: Literally, the giver of life; A well aspected benefic that occupies an aphetic (hylegiacal) place in the horoscope, said to have life-preserving qualities. Afflictions to the Apheta were bel . . . View Full Definition

Alphetical Places: Those parts of a horoscope from 5° above the Ascendant to 25° below, from 5° below the Descendant to 25° above, and from 5° preceding the ninth house cusp to the middle of the eleventh house . . . View Full Definition

Anareta: From the Greek, literally destroyer. Applied to a malefic that occupies an anaretic place and afflicts the Hyleg; believed by ancients to be life-destructive.

Anaretic Degree: The final degree (29th degree) of any Sign. It is also known as the degree of fate.

Anaretic Place: The final degree (between 29° and 30°) of any sign, also called the degree of fate. Planets and house cusps that occupy anaretic degrees indicate fundamental issues with which one must deal.

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