Definition: The decan is a 10 degree increment that divides the 360 degree ecliptic into 36 pieces. There are three decans for each sign of the Zodiac. This gives more nuance to the general interpretation of a sign, within its decanate.
Decan, Decanate: Based on the subdivision of a sign into three parts of 10° each.
Decanate: The partitioning of each Sign into three equal parts of 10 degrees each. Each part is known as a decanate. Every Sign is composed of 30 degrees.
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In Manilius' decanate system each sign has a cardinal sign ruling the first decanate, then one which is fixed, and then mutable. Each sign has one decanate ruler which is of its own element.
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Decan or Decanate-Ten degrees of arc, the first, second or third section of the stack marked by ten-degree intervals.
Decanate: One of three divisions of a Sun Sign ( 0º-9º59', 10º-19º59', 20º-29º59').
Descendant: The cusp between the sixth and seventh houses, the point at which the western horizon intercepts the ecliptic.
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Decanate: A whole sign equals 30 degrees. Each sign includes 3 decanates made up of 10 degrees each.
Decan, Decanates A division of the signs into 10 degrees each of which is subtly different from one another due to the different rulers involved. ...
Decans or Decanates - each sign splits into 3 parts. 0-9 degrees is ruled by the sign, 10-19 deg sub-ruled by next sign-same element & 20-29 degrees the 3rd sign.
1ST DECAN CAPRICORN born DEC22-JAN 1
SATURN is the planetary ruler of this decan.
Leo Decans
Born between July 23 and August 2
If the person is born between these days, the planetary ruler is Sun...
Born between August 3 and August 13
If the person is born between these days, the planetary ruler is Jupiter...
First Decan: activity, adventure, zeal, notoriety, dishonor, misfortune. Second Decan: noble affections as the source of power to sway others - the head joined to the impulses of the heart.
decan : Based on the subdivision of a sign into three parts of 10° each.
Decanate: three sequential 10-degree sections of all signs: the first 10° of any sign is said to be of the nature of the sign itself; the second 10° decanate is of the nature of the next sign of the same element; ...
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Each sign is divided into three decans of 10 degrees. See also Face
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Decanate are signs that are divided into thirds. Decanate is the name given to each third of a sign.
12) Decans are also known in the tradition as "faces."
13) Meaning Mode Cardinal/Fixed/Mutable, Humors or Elements and signs, and negative and positive or masculine and feminine connotations.
The first decanate or Drekkana of the Eighth House represents the first 1/3 rd of the body, the second Drekkana or decanate the second half and third, the third half.
We have said that the 8th house is the house of Diseases and Death.
Face Each sign of thirty degrees is divided into three segments called decans (decanates) of ten degrees, each with its own planetary ruler.
(100) Teucer of Babylon, was the first to delineate the decans astrologically (may be an incorrect tradition). Late First Century, Balbillus. Son or nephew of Thrasyllus and almost as eminent.
The first decante is ruled by the owner of the Rasi himself, the second by the lord of the 5th Rasi from thee, and the 3rd by the lord of the 9th Rasi.
4) Chaturthamsa: Each sign is divided into 4 parts of 7 Degree and 30 Mts.
DECANATE: The division of each sign into three equal parts of 10 degrees each.
DECLINATION: The distance of a planet north or south of the celestial equater
DEGREE: 1/360 of a circle.
The first nova of record appeared suddenly on November 11, 1572, in the Constellation Cassiopeia, in the third decanate of Pisces - known as the decanate of Vicissitudes.
It is for instance true, if it is joined with the Lord of the domicile or exaltation or with the Lord of two of the other minor dignities (namely with the Lord of the term and triplicity, or with the Lord of the term and the decan, ...
The Egyptian constellations were eventually dropped and replaced by the twelve Babylonian-Greek versions but the 36 decans were incorporated into ten degree segments of the ecliptic, ...
] If any Planet be in his Decanate, Decurie or Face, as Mars in the first ten degrees of Aries, or in Mercury in the first ten degrees of Taurus, he is then allowed one essential dignity; for being in his own Decanate or Face, ...
With Mars(action) and Chiron(healing) conjunct in the last decanate of Sagitarrius -- also near the galactic center -- opposing retrograde Mercury conjuct Jupiter in Gemini, the cauldron of change is churning with evolutionary elixir.
There were other transits - for example, the Uranus-Neptune-Saturn conjunction in the first decanate of Capricorn, ...
Each sign is further broken down into three segments called decans and each of these is jointly ruled by another planet. The first decan of any sign shares its ruler with that of the sign.
Line of Advantage -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.
Link - To form a linkage.
One prominent astrologer, Marc Penfield, uses 8 houses - dividing each quadrant using the same technique as in Koch & Placidus. Michel Gauquelin divided Placidus houses into 36 (instead of 12) "decans" and marked beginning of the 36th "decan" ...
Regardless, we are in the last decan of Pisces and moving away from the Pisces influence of sacrifice of the individual ego.
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