horoscopic

Western astrology is largely horoscopic, that is, it is largely based on the construction of a horoscope for an exact moment in time, such as a person's birth, in which various cosmic bodies are said to have an influence.

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This kind of horoscopic or geneth - liacal astrology, based on the locations of the planets at a supposedly critical juncture and on their imagined potencies, could profess to read far into the future, where the planetary tables covered extensive periods of time.

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Economic dodos even study these cycles of stupidity pontificating, with coloured pie charts and factitious, “horoscopic” mathematical theorems, on how it is just normal that fractures in the technique of administering an economy and financing its stock market are a matter of historically recurring routine.

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Similarly, Burkert accepts A 14 as genuine and as representing the earliest evidence for horoscopic astrology in Greece (1972a, 350), whereas Huffman argues against authenticity (1993, 381-91).

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Our existences are in truth, owing to heredity, as full of cabalistic ciphers, of horoscopic castings as if there really were sorcerers in the world.

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The first of these is the system of lots (κλῆποι), which are points as distant from some specified points in the horoscopic diagram as two planets are from each other.

ASTROLOGY DAVID PINGREE 1968

Among the intellectuals the conflict over the validity of astrology revolved around two main points: free will and the uniqueness and accuracy of any horoscopic diagram.

ASTROLOGY DAVID PINGREE 1968

Though some authorities, like Vettius Valens (ca. A.D. 175) and his favorite source, Critodemus (beginning of the first cen - tury A.D.?) describe strange new ways of manipulating the horoscopic diagram, they were not very influential.

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A common variant on or adjunct to the prorogator is the Lord of the Year, which is the strongest planet in the horoscopic diagram; it travels at the same rate as does the prorogator and, as it moves with respect to the other, stable elements of the horoscopic diagram, determines the events of each year.

ASTROLOGY DAVID PINGREE 1968

Of course any horoscopic diagram will yield an enormous number of predictions which will contradict each other or which will be quite extravagant; the astrologer must use his knowledge of the native's social, ethnic, and economic background and his experience and good judgment to extract from this congeries a satisfactory reading.

ASTROLOGY DAVID PINGREE 1968