Celestial Body
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Celestial Body: A physical form which exists in space; such as a planet.
Celestial Body: A physical form which exists in space; such as a planet.
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Step Wedge: Printed series of density increases, in regular steps from transparent to opaque. Its a method of making exposure tests when enlarging.
Celestial body: A physical form which exists in space; such as a planet.
Ceres: An asteroid named for the Roman Goddess of Agriculture. Represents women's cycles, parenting and nutrition.
The celestial body associated with the Alder is the planet Mars ("Maurth"), named for the Roman God of War who was the former God of Agriculture. Since it is water loving tree it is influenced by the sign Pisces.
Every celestial body that we can see is the physical manifestation on this plane of an indwelling cosmic spirit. The divinity manifesting through a sun is a solar spirit or god.
Henri Corbin, Celestial Body and Spiritual Earth, trans. N. Pearson, (Princeton N.J. 1977), p.11.
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Distance of a celestial body below the horizon: its horizontal distance North.
Descendant
The opposite point to the Ascendant (q.v.). The cusp of the 7th house. The western angle. Loosely applied to the whole of the seventh house.
Longitude of a celestial body measured as an arc of the ecliptic (q.v.) between the vernal equinoctial point and the meridian of the body (the perpendicular arc to the ecliptic drawn through the body).
Chiron: A small celestial body (planetoid) between Saturn and Uranus. Discovered by Charles Kowal in 1977 and named for the mythical centaur noted for healing and teaching.
That portion of a celestial body's apparent daily travel, during which it remains above the horizon, from its rising to its setting, is called its diurnal arc; hence half of the arc, from horizon to midheaven, is its Diurnal Semi-Arc.
Celestial Body One of the Four Principles, highest of the hierarchy, which becomes the Clarified Body once all earthly incarnations are finished. It corresponds with the Faculty of Body of Fate.
Celestial Body see Celestial. Celestial Equator The projection onto the Celestial Sphere of the Earth's equator in the same plane as the Earth's equator, in other words, the projection of the Earth's equator onto the sky.
The term Retrograde is applied to the motion of any celestial body that as appeared from the Earth, is going backwards through the Zodiac. How does a planet whose total mass is beyond visual conception, go backwards?
Pearl stone symbolizes Moon which is a prime celestial body of the Zodiac. Pearl Stone should be worn least of 3-9 carat embedded in Gold or Silver Ring or a Pendant in the little finger of the right hand in chosen auspicious time only.
Parallax: the apparent shifting of a closer celestial body (a planet or nearby star) against the background of far more distant stars caused by changing one's point of view.
Because the sun is easily the dominant celestial body (every planet, of course, orbits around it), it has the greatest influence over you; thus people of the same sun sign have many similar qualities.
The word eclipse is derived from the Greek word meaning to fail, to omit or to abandon; in this case, there is the obscuring of one celestial body by another.
All these devices had a single use: to measure the altitude of a celestial body above the horizon.
Shadow Planet - Not a true celestial body, but a calculated point of significance in the chart, primarily the Moon's north (ascending) and south (descending) nodes.
And it was on the 1st of November, 1977 that Charles Kowal, at Pasadena Observatory, California, took photographs where he discovered a new celestial body with a planet's orbit.
This page is about the orchestral suite by Gustav Holst. For the celestial body, see planet, and for the planets in our solar system, see solar system.
Occultations are a term commonly used when the Moon and a planet are in the same degree of declination. However, any celestial body can "occult" or hide another from view.
The angular distance dividing the Earth's surface horizontally, North and South of the Equator. 2. The angular distance of a celestial body North or South of the Sun's path (ecliptic).
Though the Royal Astronomer, John Flamsteed, had identified a celestial body on several occasions between 1690 and 1715, it was Herschel who is credited with its discovery. Interestingly Herschel was a musician, not an astronomer.
Each sign also contains some Fixed Stars. When a planet is posited within 1 degree of a Fixed Star the characteristics of that particular star are blended in too, just like any other celestial body being so close.
Earth can thus be seen as the centre of its own unique universe, and this point will have a different influence on anything or anyone positioned there regardless of the influences arising from the relationship of Earth with any other celestial body.
 See also: Celestial, Astrology, Sun, House, Earth
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