In past centuries astrology often relied on close observation of astronomical objects, and the charting of their movements, and might be considered a protoscience in this regard. In modern times astrologers have tended to rely on data drawn up by astronomers and set out in a set of tables called an ephemeris, which shows the changing positions of the heavenly bodies through time. It is the interpretation of these science based tables that makes astrol ...

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Astrology, Astrology - Description, Astrology - History of astrology, Astrology - The validity of astrology, Astrology - Effects on world culture, Astrology - Astrology as a descriptive language for the mind, Astrology - Astrology and the classical elements, Astrology - Astrology and alchemy, Astrology - The seven liberal arts and astrology, Astrology - Astrology and the Days of the Week

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Sidereal astrology, Sidereal astrology - Description, Sidereal astrology - Signs of the zodiac, Sidereal astrology - The Astronomical Constellations of the Zodiac, Sidereal astrology - The 13 Astronomical Constellations of the Ecliptic, Sidereal astrology - The 21 zodiacal constellations of the Planets

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Judicial and Natural astrology appear to be the first known forms of ancient astrology. While natural astrology figured in the technical aspects of the science in the forecasting of weather, and daily effects of the influences of stellar bodies; judicial astrology focussed on the interpretation of the celestial transits and forecast their effects on individuals, groups, and nations. Theology formed out of judicial and natural astrology, as many world religions continue to be heavily influenced by the ancient texts and astrological symbols in the major world religions ...

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Judicial astrology, Judicial astrology - Description & classical history, Judicial astrology - Modern Judicial Astrology & skeptical treatment, Judicial astrology - Forms of Judicial Astrology

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Astrology (from Greek: αστρολογία = άστρον, astron, "star" + λόγος, logos, "word") refers to any of several traditions or systems in which knowledge of the apparent positions of celestial bodies is held to be useful in understanding, interpreting, and organizing knowledge about reality and human existence on earth. All traditions are based on the relative positions and movements of various real and construed celestial bodies as seen at the time and place of the birth or other event being studied. The ...

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• Astrology - Description
• Astrology - History of astrology
• Astrology - The validity of astrology
• Astrology - Effects on world culture
• Astrology - Astrology as a descriptive language for the mind
• Astrology - Astrology and the classical elements
• Astrology - Astrology and alchemy
• Astrology - The seven liberal arts and astrology
• Astrology - Astrology and the days of the week

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Detailed description of how a Homa is performed.
During a homa, various rituals are performed successively in order to activate various energies and to also develop the right emotion to perform the homa. Some of these rituals are common and must be observed before every homa. After these rituals are performed, the main homa would begin wherein the rituals differ depending on which deity you invoke. The common rituals for all homas are described.

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Astrolocality is a specialized branch of astrology that in essence, takes one's natal chart and superimposes it on a map of the earth, revealing individualized places of planetary archetypal energies. The author, Maya White, is one of only 84 people world wide trained and certified by the late Jim Lewis.

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Gemstone Therapy

From time immemorial gemstones have been used by all cultures of the world. Their inherent beauty is second to no other material in the mineral kingdom. Today's science of gemmology gives much information about the physical properties and chemical composition of gemstones, but gives no information of their "healing properties". They are extremely powerful tools to aid in balancing the physical, psychological and spiritual sides of life. This is necessary in order to keep oneself in proper order. The information I will give in this section is mainly from the Vedic viewpoint. This has been tried and tested for thousands of years and found to be accurate. The vedas have the greatest wealth of information on the metaphysical properties, as well as the physical properties, of gems and their correct application to enhance the lives of human beings.

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Vedic Astrology and Mental, Emotional and Spiritual Health

In order to maintain a healthy mind we must realize the true realities of life. Therefore we must consider our spiritual nature to understand the subtleties of mind, intelligence and ego. Accordingly mental, emotional and spiritual health go together and, unless you have some knowledge in this regard, you cannot stop the onslaught of negative emotions brought on by ignorance and fear. We not only need to engage ourselves in some sort of fulfilling work to occupy our minds but need to understand why we fall victim to feelings of hate, envy, greed and avarice. These emotions only serve to destroy us intellectually, psychologically, emotionally and spiritually. Why is there so much hate in the world, anyway?

Excerpt from "An Introduction to Vedic Astrology" by Howard Beckman

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The Voynich manuscript is a mysterious illustrated book of unknown contents, written some 600 years ago by an anonymous author in an unidentified alphabet and unintelligible language. Over its recorded existence, the Voynich manuscript has been the object of intense study by many professional and amateur cryptographers — including some top American and British codebreakers of World War II fame — who all failed to decipher a single word. This string of failures has turned the Voynich manuscript into the Holy Grail of histori ...

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• Voynich manuscript - Description
• Voynich manuscript - Illustrations
• Voynich manuscript - The text
• Voynich manuscript - History
• Voynich manuscript - Theories about authorship
• Voynich manuscript - Roger Bacon
• Voynich manuscript - John Dee
• Voynich manuscript - Edward Kelley
• Voynich manuscript - Wilfrid Voynich
• Voynich manuscript - Jacobus Sinapius
• Voynich manuscript - Jan Marci
• Voynich manuscript - Raphael Mnishovsky
• Voynich manuscript - Anthony Ascham
• Voynich manuscript - Theories about contents and purpose
• Voynich manuscript - Herbal
• Voynich manuscript - Sunflowers
• Voynich manuscript - Alchemy
• Voynich manuscript - Alchemical herbal
• Voynich manuscript - Astrological herbal
• Voynich manuscript - Microscopes and telescopes
• Voynich manuscript - Multiple authors
• Voynich manuscript - Theories about the language
• Voynich manuscript - Letter-based cipher
• Voynich manuscript - Codebook cipher
• Voynich manuscript - Visual cipher
• Voynich manuscript - Micrography
• Voynich manuscript - Steganography
• Voynich manuscript - Exotic natural language
• Voynich manuscript - Polyglot tongue
• Voynich manuscript - Constructed language
• Voynich manuscript - Hoax
• Voynich manuscript - Influence on popular culture

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Decile. In descriptive statistics, a decile is any of the 9 values that divide the sorted data into 10 equal parts, so that each part represents 1/10th of the sample or population. Thus: The 1st decile cuts off lowest 10% of data The 9th decile cuts off lowest 90% of data In astrology, a decile is an aspect of 36 degrees. It is one-tenth of the 360 degree circle that forms our zodiac. The decile is a mildly beneficial aspect.

Uranian Astrology is a modern form of astrology based on teachings of German surveyor/astrologer Alfred Witte (1878-1941), founder of the Hamburg School of Astrology. Witte revived and further developed the use of mathematical midpoints for precision astrological analysis and prediction. He was also an avid independent student of astronomy. In his early writings in the 1920s, he experimented with numerous historical astrology techniques, including the astrological houses, planetary formulae similar to 'Arabic parts', and planet ...

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Alfred Witte (2 March 1878, 21:12 LMT, Hamburg -- 4 August 1941, 4:01 MET, Hamburg) was a German astrologer and the founder of the Hamburg School of Astrology. Witte revived and further developed the use of astrological midpoints for precision in astrological analysis and prediction. He was also an avid independent student of astronomy. In his early writings in the 1920s, he experimented with numerous historical astrology techniques, including the astrological houses, planetary formulae similar to 'Arabic parts', and a new sche ...

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Computers quickly perform planetary and numerical computations that astrologers find useful. Astrology and computers - History. In the decade before personal computers became available, astrologers who wanted their charts calculated for them by computer could send payment to Astro Computing Services (ACS) in San Diego and receive printed charts by mail. Founded by 17-year IBM employee Neil Michelsen (5/11/1931 - 5/15/1990) in 1973, ACS published the first computer-generated ephemeris in 1976, The American Ephem ...

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• Astrology and computers - History
• Astrology and computers - Calculation Features
• Astrology and computers - Interpretation Reports
• Astrology and computers - Resources

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The validity of astrology is a controversial subject. The case for and the case against astrology's objective validity are presented here. Astrologers argue that astrology works by a mechanism or mechanisms unknown to conventional science. Professional astrologers state by their experience that when applied to practical real life cases and world events many situations can be explained and forecast. They argue that it does not prove anything that conventional science says it requires, but informs the user of potential cel ...

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• Validity of astrology - How astrologers view astrology
• Validity of astrology - How skeptics view astrology
• Validity of astrology - Arguments for astrology
• Validity of astrology - Frank Brown's Experiment
• Validity of astrology - The Mars effect
• Validity of astrology - Age among peer groups
• Validity of astrology - Percy Seymour
• Validity of astrology - The thirteenth zodiacal constellation
• Validity of astrology - Arguments against astrology
• Validity of astrology - Gravitational forces aspect
• Validity of astrology - Magnetic influence
• Validity of astrology - The question of distance
• Validity of astrology - Extra heavenly bodies
• Validity of astrology - Inconsistency of effect
• Validity of astrology - Astrological and astronomical zodiac differences
• Validity of astrology - Arbitrary nature of modern and old zodiac mismatch
• Validity of astrology - Time of birth
• Validity of astrology - Forer effect
• Validity of astrology - Modern solar system bodies discoveries
• Validity of astrology - Psychological points
• Validity of astrology - Knowing about things which can not be changed. A paradox?
• Validity of astrology - Relationship to various sciences

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Chinese astrology is related to the Chinese calendar, particularly its 12-year cycle of animals (aka Chinese Zodiac), and the fortune-telling aspects according to movement of heavenly bodies across the Chinese constellations in the sky. Chinese astrology - Background. The ancient Chinese astronomers called the five major planets by the names of the Five Elements. Venus is Metal (gold); Jupiter is Wood; Mercury is Water; Mars is Fire; Saturn is Earth. The position of the five planets, the sun, the moon, and comets ...

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• Chinese astrology - Background
• Chinese astrology - The Binary 60 Year cycle Yin Yang
• Chinese astrology - Five Elements
• Chinese astrology - Water
• Chinese astrology - Wood
• Chinese astrology - Fire
• Chinese astrology - Metal gold
• Chinese astrology - Earth
• Chinese astrology - The Twelve animals
• Chinese astrology - The Twelve Zodiac Animals
• Chinese astrology - Inner Animals and Secret animals
• Chinese astrology - The Months
• Chinese astrology - The Hours
• Chinese astrology - Origin Stories
• Chinese astrology - The Lunisolar Calender
• Chinese astrology - Table of the Lunar Calendar and Zodiac
• Chinese astrology - Chinese Zodiac in other countries
• Chinese astrology - Torè Calendar

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Musica universalis or music of the spheres is a medieval philosophical concept that regards the proportions in the movements of the celestial bodies - the Sun, Moon and planets - as a form of musica (the medieval Latin name for music). This music was not thought of as an audible sound, but simply as a mathematical concept. The Greek philosopher Pythagoras was frequently credited with originating the concept, which stemmed from his semi-mystical, semi-mathematical philosophy and its associated system of numerology. (See Pythagor ...

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CLAMP is a team of four women who create manga. Their manga series are often made into anime after release. More than 88 million CLAMP tankōbon copies have been sold worldwide. CLAMP originally began in 1989 as a twelve-member dōjinshi circle called Amarythia. The former members of CLAMP include Tamayo Akiyama, Soushi Hisagi, O-Kyon, Kazue Nakamori, Inoue Yuzuru, Sei Nanao, Shinya Ohmi and Leeza Sei. By 1990, the circle had diminished from twelve to seven and their name had changed to CLAMP. Of the rem ...

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• CLAMP - Current CLAMP members
• CLAMP - Ageha Ohkawa
• CLAMP - Mokona
• CLAMP - Tsubaki Nekoi
• CLAMP - Satsuki Igarashi
• CLAMP - CLAMP works
• CLAMP - Header descriptions
• CLAMP - In-progress works
• CLAMP - Completed works
• CLAMP - Short works
• CLAMP - Collaborations
• CLAMP - International publishing status of CLAMP works
• CLAMP - North America
• CLAMP - Brazil
• CLAMP - Argentina
• CLAMP - Former CLAMP members
• CLAMP - Tamayo Akiyama
• CLAMP - Leeza Sei

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For broader historical context, see 1260s and 13th century. 1267 - Events. 1267 - Europe. King Afonso III of Portugal and King Alfonso X of Castile sign a treaty determining the southern border between Portugal and Spain as the Guadiana River, a border that remains to this day. The Second Barons' War in England ends, as the rebels and King Henry III of England agree to peace terms as laid out in the Dictum of Kenilworth. King Henry III of England ...

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• 1267 - Events
• 1267 - Europe
• 1267 - Asia and Africa
• 1267 - Births
• 1267 - Deaths

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An almanac (also spelled almanack, especially in Commonwealth English) is an annual publication containing tabular information in a particular field or fields often arranged according to the calendar. Astronomical data and various statistics are also found in almanacs, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, lists of all types, timelines, and more. The word almanac comes from the Arabic al-manaakh, "the climate," ...

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• Almanac - Contemporary Almanacs

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Secretum secretorum is a medieval treatise also known as Secret of Secrets, or The Book of the Secret of Secrets, or in Arabic Kitab sirr al-asrar, or the Book of the science of government: on the good ordering of statecraft. It is a mid-12th century Latin translation of a 9th century Arabic encyclopedic treatise on a wide range of topics including statecraft, ethics, physiognomy, astrology, alchemy, magic, and medicine. It was influential in Europe during the High Middle Ages. Including:

• Secretum Secretorum - Origin
• Secretum Secretorum - The Secrets
• Secretum Secretorum - Influences
• Secretum Secretorum - External link

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