Zoidion - Ancient Greek name for Sign, which imputes the sense of a living being rather than just a spatial container.
Zoomancy - Divination by interpreting the appearance and behavior of animals.
Image Schmidt's translation of Zoidion, the ancient Hellenistic term for Zodiacal Sign. See Zoidion. Immersion The beginning of an eclipse, or of an occultation. The opposite of Emersion, or coming out of the aspect.
First, Robert Hand's discussion of the meaning of "Zoidion". And second, the insight that the Greeks apparently did not differentiate the Zodiac into twelve distinct "Signs" as we do, but rather they divided the ecliptic into six pairs of Zoidia.
The eighth from the Horoskopos is called idle, because it is in aversion and disjunct from the Horoskopic zoidion. It is also the post-descension of the setting zoidion, and signifies the accomplishment of death.
the Lot itself will possess the power of the Horoskopos, that of life; the tenth zoidion [sign] from this, the power of the Midheaven, that of reputation; the 7th, the power of the Descendant; the 4th, of the subterraneous zoidion, ...
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