Category: Aspects

Cancer Ingress of the Sun – Summer Solstice

.Reading time 8 minutes.

The Solstices and the two Equinox are of great significance.  For Mundane astrologers, they are consulted along with the ingress of the planets, eclipses and a variety of other elements, depending on exactly what is being sought. The rule has it that Fixed Signs signify a longer period of the effect than Cardinal, and Mutable is even […]

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Al Biruni & Ptolemy on Aspects

.Reading time 6 minutes.

This is one more very brief introduction to the schemata of astrological aspects as expressed by Al Biruni in his Book of Instruction. The aspects he uses include the Inconjunct or Quincunx, referred to by Claudius Ptolemy as an aversion, rather than an aspect. Al Biruni has discussed the Inconjunct immediately before the insertion of […]

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