This document defines key terms from astrology in alphabetical order. It provides concise definitions for over 50 astrological terms, including signs of the zodiac, planets, houses, and other celestial phenomena. Terms are defined based on their meaning and significance within astrological interpretation. The document serves as a dictionary for basic astrological concepts and vocabulary.

1. ASTROLOGY DICTIONARY
LINA MARCELA LEÓN RIAÑO
INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGLISH
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3. Air signs
/ɛə/ /saɪns/
• n.(Libra, Aquarius, Gemini), of reflexive and
judicious nature.

4. Apex
/ˈeɪpɛks/
• n. It is named an Apex to the beginning of the
Houses, it means the degree in which it has
beginning.

5. Ascendancy
/əˈsɛndənsɪ/
• n. It is the sign of the zodiac that corresponds
with the point more in the eastern part (that
ascends by the sky) of the celestial vault for a
certain moment and place.

6. Aspects
/ˈæspɛkts/
• n. They are the relative positions between two
planets measured in degrees, the principal
ones are:
– The Conjunction 0 º +/-6 º
– The Sextil 60 º +/-5 º
– The Squaring 90 º +/-5 º
– The Trigon 120 º +/-5 º
– The Opposition 180 º +/-6 º

9. Cardinal Signs
/ˈkɑːdɪnəl/ /saɪns/
• n. ( Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn), whose
qualities are the dynamics and the action.

11. Descendant
/dɪˈsɛndənt/
• n. It indicates the sign that occupies the most
western place of the sky, is the opposite point
to the ascending one. The seventh house.

12. Domicilie
/ˈdäməsəl/
• vtr. It is said that a planet is in his Domicile,
when it is in the Sign that it applies, example:
Mars is in his domicile in Aries or in Scorpio. In
this case it gives all its energy or nature, since
because it is comfortable in its sign, it's like a
person who was born and lives in the same
neighborhood.

14. Earth signs
/ɜːθ/ /saɪns/
• n. ( Capricorn, Taurus, Virgo), of practical
nature, interested and realistic.

15. Eclipse
/ɪˈklɪps/
• n. It is named an Eclipse, to the intersection of
the planet orbit or luminary, by another
planet or luminary.

16. Ecliptic
/ɪˈklɪptɪk/
• adj. It is the plane on which the planets move
in their revolution about the Sun and
seemingly, the Sun and other planets about
the Earth. In in there are located the Signs of
the Zodiac (it means the space of every
constellation) And on the same plane is
situated the orbit of the planets.

17. Elements
/ˈɛlɪmənts/
• n. They are Fire, Earth, Air and Water. Every
zodiacal sign has an element associate
According to the criterion of classification
used the elements or "triplicities" are taken
into account.

18. Exaltation
/ˌɛɡzɔːlˈteɪʃən/
• n. A planet is situated in exaltation, when in
the sign in which it is, allows it to develop or
to demonstrate, to give the maximum of his
energy.

19. Exile
/ˈɛɡzaɪl/
• n. A planet is situated in exaltation, when in
the sign in which it is, allows it to develop or
to demonstrate, to give the maximum of its
energy.

21. Fall
/fɔːl/
• n. A planet is situated in fall, when it is in the
sign opposite to that of the exaltation. Its
nature meets obstructed, debilitated, united,
prevented of giving or offering the own
elements.

22. Fire signs
/faɪə/ /saɪns/
• ( Aries, Leo, Sagittarius), of enthusiast and
fiery nature.

25. Hemisphere
/ˈhɛmɪˌsfɪə/
• n. It parts from the Natal Letter in which it divides to be able to
realize studies of full or general characteristics.
• Hemisphere North Is the fact that the
Houses occupy 7, 8, 9, 10, 11,12.
• Hemisphere South Is the fact that
the Houses occupy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,6.
• Oriental hemisphere Is the fact that
the Houses occupy 1, 2, 3, 10, 11,12.
• Western hemisphere Is the fact
that the Houses occupy 4, 5,6, 7, 8,9.

26. Houses
/haʊsɛs/
• n. They receive this name twelve sectors in
which the zodiac is divided for a certain
moment and place of birth. They are ordained
in the opposite direction to the needles of the
clock from the first one that has its apex in the
ascending one.

31. Luminar
• n. It is named Luminary to the Sun, and to the
Moon. It means the one which provides us the
light and the one which reflects it.

33. Midheaven
/ˈmidˌhevən/
• n. Place that occupies the Sun to the midday.
Point where the meridian of a place finds the
ecliptic when the Sun is in the highest point
on the horizon.
• It is also named as Medium Coeli

34. Mutable signs
/ˈmjuːtəbəl/ /saɪns/
• n.( Sagittarius, Virgo, Gemini and Pisces); their
quality would consist on the reflection and
adjustment.

38. Polarities
/pəʊˈlærɪtɪɛs/
• n. General principles of the signs, or what is equal to group
them adequately in a kind (Masculine - Feminine ó Positive -
Negative). If it is use for its classification the criterion called by
the astrologers of " value or sex ", there will be positive signs
(dynamic, active) and negative signs (indolent, passive).
• All the signs of Fire and Air are positive, those of Earth and
Water are negative.

40. Qualities
/ˈkwɒlɪtɪɛs/
• n. General bases of interpretation of the Signs
grouped according to their way of being.
• They can be Cardinal, Fixed or Mutable.

42. Revolution
/ˌrɛvəˈluːʃən/
• n. Movement of a planet to cross its complete
orbit on the zodiacal belt, returning to the
same degree and sign in which it initiated.

44. Signs
/saɪns/
• n. They are twelve equal divisions (of 30 º each one)
of the zodiac, they place in the opposite direction to
the needles of the clock from the Spring point
(equinox that gives beginning to the spring) in the
following order: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo,
Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius
and Pisces.

45. Sky background
/skaɪ/ /ˈbækˌɡraʊnd/
• n. Place where is the Sun at midnight. Point
opposite to the Half Sky Also named Imum
Coeli.

50. Water signs
/ˈwɔːtə/ /saɪns/
• n.(Cancer, Scorpion and Pisces), whose nature
is imaginative, emotive and loaded of
curiosity.

54. Zodiac
/ˈzəʊdɪˌæk/
• n. Literally belt of animals. It is the circular band about the
land on which seemingly all the planets move. It includes a
few degrees on both sides of the ecliptic. The signs, a
number of twelve, as twelve constellations of the Zodiac, are
classified from ancient in conformity with
rather conventional criteria, but that
contain a precise enough meaning, already
express as an element, since triplicity
or as cuadruplicity. From the traditional
astrology till now, the signs have divided
in: positives and negatives; cardinal, fixed and variable or
common; also in signs of Fire, Earth, Air and Water.