Sinister Aspect: From the Latin sinister, left or left hand; a term replaced by modern astrologers with departing aspect, which refers to aspects in which the direction from significator to promittor is backward in the zodiac, ...
Dexter and Sinister
- these terms are applied to aspects. Dexter aspects are formed against the order of the astrological signs, for example, a planet in Pisces making a sextile to a planet in Capricorn is making a dexter aspect.
Sinister Aspect - An aspect read from the left (ie applying to the exact point of aspect).
Sinister - An aspect ray cast foreward in the order of the signs (to the left).
SINISTER -
SQUARE - A Quadrate aspect, or Quadranglar, or Tetragonall, is the distance of two Points, or two Planets by a fourth part of the Circle, for four times ninety do contain three hundred and sixty degrees.
Sinister. A left-handed aspect - not, however, with reference to the proper motion of the aspecting body, but to its apparent motion. v. Dexter.
Slow of Course. v. Planetary Motions.
Sol. The Sun.
sinister aspect : Sinister (Latin); term replaced with departing aspect, which refers to aspects in which the direction from significator to promittor is backward in the zodiac, clockwise in a horoscope. See also departing aspect.
"Astrology, bar sinister in the escutcheon of astronomy, maintains a unique and lonely position in human thought.
Sinister AspectAn aspect read from the left by diurnal movement, i.e. clockwise. It is thus in accordance with the natural succession of the Signs. Considered less powerful because hidden, or not in the line of sight. See Dexter.
Even the 16th century German author Johann Weyer, sceptical in general of the efficacy of curses, says, If some sinister outcome is occasionally seen to result from malicious imprecations made by parents against their children, ...
that Ptolemy, who originated the term, knew only apparent motion - that of the daily motion of the heavens because of the Earth's rotation; therefore the one ahead, was on the right hand - dexter; and the one behind, was on the left hand - sinister.
the strong serpent of the sea," one of the sinister brood of the primordial monster Tiamat.
Medieval missionaries took a happy festival and tried to turn it into something dark and sinister. Now, more than a thousand years later, Christians and Pagans alike dress up in dark and sinister costumes and have a good laugh at their expense.
I had gone to Rome expecting - hoping, even - for a chilling encounter, but instead of a sinister bug-eyed obsessive lurking in the shadows of a Hammer Horror film set, ...
Through associations with the more sensational, 'black' forms of magic during the twentieth century, especially in film and popular fiction, the term has acquired slightly more sinister nuances in some contexts.
In English folklore, a willow tree is believed to be quite sinister, capable of uprooting itself and stalking travellers.
Her intentions were noble but her fate/death finally fell into the hands of a sinister and corrupt ruling elite, due to her own misguided devotion and misunderstanding of the 9th house matters, religion and spirituality.
At its worst, it is power, control, obsession, and a morbid fascination with the sinister side of life. Pluto is associated with death: rarely one's own, sometimes another's.
Rarely do Scorpio Ascendant individuals possess the sinister or mysterious personalities that popular literature tends to associate with the sign of Scorpio. You are keen a observer and a shrewd speculator.
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