ON DEFINITIONS AND TERMS

There are four or five signs of equal rising original: "anaphoræ"; this refers to signs that take the same amount of time to rise over the horizon, such as Aries and Libra, Gemini and Sagittarius, Cancer and Capricorn, Leo and Aquarius, and Virgo and Pisces. Some say these signs "hear" one another, but do not "see" one another, because of the shadow of the earth.

Diurnal stars planets belonging to the "day" faction are what he calls Jupiter and Saturn. They are said to belong to the faction of the Sun itself because they do not set or change their figures as frequently; they "rejoice" to exercise their influence during the day and in the diurnal houses.

Nocturnal stars are Mars and Venus, which are companions of the Moon. They take on many different figures and often set and are obscured.

The promiscuous common or neutral star is Mercury, for it becomes a companion to those whose form it adopts: it is "matutine" appearing in the morning with the Sun and "vespertine" appearing in the evening with the Moon.

The houses of the stars, which they also call zones or belts, are the twelve twelfth-parts original: "dodecatemoria" of the zodiac, which they also call signs.

Apoclimata are declinations the "falling away" of a house from one of the four main angles of a chart.

There are four centers the angles of a chart: the horoscope the Ascendant, or the point rising on the eastern horizon, the setting the Descendant, or western horizon, the midday the Midheaven or MC, and the place under the earth, or underworld the IC or Imum Coeli.

A twelfth-part original: "dodecatemorion" is so named because it is the twelfth part of the signs.

The figures of the stars are what he calls their testimonies to one another, namely: triangles trines, squares, six-angles sextiles, and diameters oppositions.

They call a figure Right (triangle, square, or sextile) when it is the sign from which the star has departed. They call it Left when it is the sign to which the star is going. For example, if the Sun is in Leo, the Right triangle is in Aries and the Leo trine original: ▵. The Left is in Sagittarius. The Right square is Taurus and Leo, and the Left is Scorpio. The Right sextile original: ✳ is Gemini and Leo, and the Left is Libra.

Any star spreads seven rays: three indeed upwards, and the same number downwards, and one further across the diameter. Those which are upwards are Right, and those which are downwards are Left.

They call it Parallagen parallax or shift when stars have a change in their isosceles lines geometrical alignment through the arrangement of their degrees, such as the Sun at 19 degrees of Aries and Saturn at 20 degrees of Libra.

Contact and agglutination original: "agglutinatio," a "gluing together" are terms for the meeting and standing together of two stars in one twelfth-part, at nearly the same degree. This contact—which is also called kollesis original: κόλλησις; Greek for "gluing" and in Latin can be called agglutination or coupling—occurs when they touch in the same degree, either by body or by any figure where a preceding star meets a succeeding one. If it happens to move faster, the one that precedes is overtaken by the one following; then one star prevents the other in one part and touches it, or is not further away than three degrees.

Efflux separation occurs when, after contact, the faster star is distinguished from the slower-moving one. Or, as Porphyry a 3rd-century Neoplatonist philosopher and astrologer prefers, it is called Efflux when a star flows away from another star more quickly than the slower one, either from a recently made coupling or from a contact through a figure, when they begin to have more middle degrees between them than is proper for forming a figure.

A star is called Orbicular when the following star hurls a ray into the preceding figure.

Signs are called disjunct and averse when they do not form a figure aspect between themselves.

A star is said to be hemmed in original: "circumuallari," like being surrounded by a wall when it is in such a figure that it is hedged in. For instance, if the Moon is in Virgo and Mars is in Aries, it encompasses Virgo, Leo, and Libra. One ray of Mars is carried into the triangle of Leo, while the other is in the diameter of Libra; the Moon is therefore called hemmed in by the malevolent stars.

This is also called obsession besieging when two stars have, in a certain way, enclosed one star in the middle, with no other star sending a ray in between them.

Middle-hurling is the name used when a star projects a ray into the middle degrees.

Transvection translation of light is said to occur when a star couples with another star, and that one in turn with another; for it carries the "setting" influence of one into the "setting" of the other.

Complex collection of light is said to occur when different and various stars are gathered to one star; for then that star assumes the power of those others for itself.

Aversion occurs when the lord of the horoscope Ascendant is not coupled with the lord of the signifying horoscope, which concerns questions horary astrology.