The Vocabulary

Two planets sitting in the same place.

Two planets at opposite ends of the sky, facing each other across the circle.

Two planets a quarter of the way round from each other.

Two planets a third of the way round the circle from each other.

Two planets a sixth of the way round from each other.

Two planets at an awkward distance — not opposite, not square, just not fitting.

The exact point of the sky that was climbing over the horizon in the east at the minute you were born.

The highest point the sky reaches over your birthplace — straight up and slightly south.

One of the two places where the Moon's path crosses the Sun's.

The far point of the Moon's orbit — the place where it is furthest from us.

How far off exact an angle is allowed to be and still count.

When a planet appears to go backwards through the signs.

How far north or south of the celestial equator a planet is.

The line where one house ends and the next begins.

One of twelve slices of your chart, each covering an area of life — money, work, home, and so on.

Three or more planets bunched together in one place.

Whether a planet is somewhere it finds easy or somewhere it finds hard.

The zodiac measured from the first day of spring.

The zodiac measured from the stars themselves rather than from the seasons.

The size of the gap between the two zodiacs — about twenty-four degrees at the moment, and slowly growing.