ON ASTROLOGY

A planet is called Excelling or Overcoming when it is placed in the twelfth original: "duodecimo." While the text says twelfth, the examples provided—Libra over Capricorn, and Capricorn over Aries—describe planets in a "square" relationship, specifically the tenth sign relative to another in the order of the zodiac sign relative to another that is in the fourth. For example, a planet in Libra overcomes one in Capricorn, and one in Capricorn overcomes one in Aries.

Aphetes original: "releaser" or "starter" is the name for a planet when it moves from its rising to its setting; that is, moving from the succeeding signs toward the preceding ones.

Conversely, it is called Profthetes original: "one who moves forward" when it moves from its setting to its rising, namely from the preceding signs toward the succeeding ones.

A planet is called Hypaugus original: "under the rays" when the Sun itself has overtaken or hidden it under its brilliance and within its rays.

Emergence or Emersion is when a fleeing planet first flashes out from the light of the Sun.

Morning Emergence is when it first appears at the rising the eastern horizon.

Evening Emergence is when it first emerges at the setting the western horizon.

Furthermore, there are two places in the heavens, separated by the diameter of the circle, which they also call Ecliptic Conjunctions, because solar and lunar eclipses occur within them when the luminaries are there. One of these points of union is called Anabibazon the Ascending Node ☋, which more recent writers call the Tail of the Dragon, and the other is Catabibazon the Descending Node ☊, which they have called the Head of the Dragon Note that the author has swapped the traditional symbols and names: usually, the Head (Anabibazon) is ☊ and the Tail (Catabibazon) is ☋.

A Border or Confine is said to exist when stars are within the same "terms" sub-divisions of a zodiac sign ruled by different planets, whether they are joined in a physical conjunction or by an "aspect" figure, such as when they regard each other while both are in the terms of the same star.

Void of Course—called kenodromia in Greek—is when the Moon is joined to no other planet, whether by degree, by figure aspect, or by physical assembly, and will not enter into a conjunction for nearly thirty degrees.

Exhalma, which is also called Exaltation, occurs when the Sun, Moon, or the Lot of Fortune pass out of their sign from the birth chart and fall into the following sign.

Ecptosis or Falling Away is when the "year" likely referring to a profection or time-lord system, calculated from the horoscope Ascendant, falls into that sign where the preceding conjunction occurred in the birth chart.

There are five Liberating Places original: "liberatoria loca," places of release in the hemisphere above the earth: the Midheaven, the two signs on either side of it (the succeeding and the preceding), the Horoscope Ascendant, and the Setting Descendant.

The Releasers themselves are four: the Sun, the Moon, the Lot of Fortune, and the presiding Lord of the Birth the planet that rules the chart.

Stars are said to be situated In Their Splendors when they are placed in their own house, in their exaltation, or within their own terms.

Participation is when a planet is the partner of the same sign or regards that planet favorably. A Partner of the Sign is a co-ruler. They rule together when one planet's house is another's exaltation.

Resolution into the Opposite—which is named anatachysis—is when day-stars hold the houses or exaltations of night-stars, or vice versa; or when stars placed in signs give good indications, but the lords of those signs are hindered by malice.

Malice original: "malitia," or affliction occurs when a planet is struck by destructive rays, or is besieged, or is in contact with a destructive planet, or is in conjunction with one, or comes into opposition, or is overcome and possessed by a destructive planet that is itself ill-affected.

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