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Browse through our Astrology Glossary, with over 150 astrological terms with diagrams and definitions. And more are being added or improved all the time, so check back for updates. These terms are also highlighted throughout the Glossary and in our articles. Just mouse-over one of the glossary links to see a popup with a brief summary, or click on the popup to go to the full description. Below is a list of the terms sorted into categories.
Glossary Categories and Terms
Aspect Patterns
Apex Planet Aspect Pattern Cradle Grand Cross Grand Sextile Grand Trine Grand Trine Kite Hard Wedge Mini-Trine Multiple Conjunction Rolling Conjunction Stellium T-Square Thor's Hammer Wedge Yod Yod Kite
Aspects
Applying & Separating Aspect Cazimi Collection of Light Combust Conjunction Dissociate Aspect Inconjunct Opposition Orb Ptolemaic Aspects Quincunx Semi-Sextile Semisquare Sesquiquadrate Sextile Square Trine
Charts
Chart Cusp Geocentric Heliocentric House Interception Natal Chart Progressions Sabian Symbol Solar Return Transits
Declination
Contra-Parallel Declination Out of Bounds Parallel
Glossary
Planets
Centaurs Chiron Earth (planet) Jupiter Mars Mercury Moon Neptune Planet Pluto Saturn Sun the Lights Transpersonal Planet Uranus Venus
Points
Angles Ascendant Descendant Imum Coeli Lunar Nodes Mean Lunar Nodes Midheaven North Node Part of Fortune Planetary Nodes Points South Node True Lunar Nodes True Nodes vs Mean Nodes
Psychology
Archetype Collective Collective Unconscious Psychological Shadow
Retrograde
Direct Motion Mercury Retrograde Retrograde Retrograde Shadow Stationary
Rulership
Dispositor Final Dispositor Mutual Reception Ruler Rulership Traditional Rulership
Sign Qualities
Air Cardinal Earth Element Fire Fixed Modality Mutable Water
Signs
Aquarius Aries Cancer Capricorn Gemini Leo Libra Pisces Sagittarius Scorpio Taurus Virgo Zodiac Signs
Sun Moon Earth
Celestial Equator Celestial Latitude Eclipse Eclipse Times Equinox Full Moon Lunar Eclipse New Moon Solar Eclipse Waxing & Waning
Zodiac
Age of Aquarius Ecliptic Precession of the Equinoxes Sidereal Zodiac Tropical Zodiac