Nocturnal Arc
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Nocturnal Arc: The time expressed in right ascension that it takes a planet or degree of the zodiac to move from its setting point on the horizon to its rising point.
Diurnal/Nocturnal
Diurnal means 'of the quality of the day'
Nocturnal means 'of the quality of the night' ...
Nocturnal Chart - Nativity of person born at night.
Nocturnal Signs - The zodiacal signs powerful during night. The first four zodiacal signs from Aries, and the 9th and 10th signs are nocturnal ones whereas the others are diurnal signs.
nocturnal signs Signs whose natural positions are in the nocturnal or northern hemisphere of a horoscope: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo and Virgo. Also called northern signs.
NOCTURNAL. v. Positive.
NORTHERN :: SOUTHERN. Northern, or Commanding Signs constitute the first six, Aries to Virgo inclusive since planets posited therein are said to command, while those in the opposite Signs obey.
NOCTURNAL SIGNS
The zodiacal signs powerful during night. The first four zodiacal signs from Aries, and the 9th and 10th signs are nocturnal ones whereas the others are diurnal signs.
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nocturnal
planets are the Moon and Venus, because of their feminine qualities, their cool, moist temperaments, and their passive natures as compared to the Sun and Mars.
The crab is a nocturnal water creature that is well equipped with its massive claws to defend itself and survives very well in the 'wilds' of the underwater world in which it thrives. They have also been prized for food throughout the ages.
Your symbol is the
nocturnal scorpion rose
up to heaven and attacked Orion.
Understanding yourself (and others) ...
either diurnal or nocturnal sect.
domicile: A zodiac sign where the planet is most comfortable and therefore has authority. The most important dignity according to medieval and later sources.
Trigonal monomoiria, where the order is based on the trigon (triplicity) rulerships via the sect ruler, with the first degree of a given sign being ruled by the sect ruler (diurnal or nocturnal) according to its sect, ...
In this particular chart, since it's nocturnal, Virgo is the ruler of Mercury, and the entire sign of Virgo is intercepted in the 8th house.
The Moon: the hare, the swan, the nightingale, the frog, the fish, the landsnails, the crabs, the shellfish, generally, the nocturnal or aquatic animals ...
In the Western predictive system, we see Mars as a nocturnal planet, even though its heat and dryness is characteristic of the day. That was done in order to moderate its excessive heat.
Placidus' system, still widely used today, is based on the trisection of nocturnal and diurnal semi-arcs.
An ancient house system based on the division of the Prime Vertical into diurnal and nocturnal arcs which are then divided into three equal parts by two declination circles.
This concept caused me to ponder the fact that so many births, at least in countries that practice modern medicine, are now diurnal whereas previously they were more of an even split between diurnal and nocturnal.
Incarnate life, which we might naturally think of as the brighter part of the cycle, is, however, when the Spirit is less apparent, so is symbolised by the winter months of the year, the antithetical half of the bright Moon and the Lunar, nocturnal ...
HAYZ - is when a Masculine and Diurnal Planet is in the day time above the earth, and in a Masculine Sign, and so when a Feminine, Nocturnal Planet in the night is in a Feminine Sign and under the earth: In Questions it usually shows the content of ...
Sect - Comes from the greek word hairesis, meaning division. In this case the division is into two: day and night. The planets of the daytime division (sect) are the Sun, Jupiter and Saturn, and the planets of the nocturnal sect are the Moon, ...
Indeed it would -- if Ptolemy's arguments of the ascension and declination or diurnal and nocturnal, and Oriental and Occidental effects are put into play as variables (i.e., "The Terms According to Ptolemy", Book I Chapter XXIV).
The attendant monk who supervised the chapel would each year ceremoniously replace an iron chopper and wooden chopping board which had become blunt and worn down by its nocturnal activities.
Could it be that an astrological view, wisdom and thus happiness, resulted from acquiring invaluable knowledge gained, not by following the Sun or planets, but primarily observing the Moon's nocturnal position as it moved across the sky?
 See also: Astrology, House, Planet, Signs, Diurnal
  
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