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Who is Linda Goodman
This author wrote the New York Times best selling book Sun Signs in 1968.
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What are Mesopotamia, Egypt and Greece
Western astrology began as an interchange of information between these three geographical places.
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What is Mars (return)
This first return coincides with the terrible two's at approximately two years old.
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What is (the) Lord of the House
This planet has the final say regarding circumstances in a house.
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What is Venus
The Roman name for this planet was originally referred to as "Ishtar" by the ancient Babylonians and "Inanna" by the ancient Sumerians.
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Who is Dane Rudhyar
This author and composer wrote more than 40 books on astrology and spirituality of which The Astrology of Personality is credited as a fundamental work in humanistic astrology.
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Who is (Vettius) Valens
This author wrote The Anthology in the 2nd century CE, a book that was recently republished by the astrologer Chris Brennan.
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What is Secondary Progressions
A year for a day boils down this timing technique.
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What is Virgo
The planet Mercury has its exaltation in this sign.
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What is Chiron
This comet, discovered in 1977 and originally thought to be an asteroid, is often plotted in charts for additional information on healing.
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Who is Lois Rodden
This astrologer created a rating system, still in use today, to organize the exactitude of birth data collected for public use.
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What are hot, cold, wet and dry
These basic four qualities comprise the constitution of the planets as postulated by Claudius Ptolemy.
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What is Solar Arc Directions
Each year a planet symbolically moves approximately 1 degree forward in the zodiac from its natal position, using this timing technique.
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What is (the) opposition
This aspect is the special aspect of Saturn.
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What is Mars and Jupiter
The asteroid belt that contains Ceres, Vesta, Pallas and Hygeia is between which two planetary orbits?
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Who is Elsie Wheeler
Marc Edmond Jones created the Sabian Symbols with this psychic medium in Balboa Park, San Diego in 1925.
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Who is Hermes Trismegistus
Hermeticism is a philosophical system that influenced many early western astrology writers and is based on the teachings of this legendary figure.
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What is Annual Profections
The "time lord" of this technique is responsible for more potent outcomes in a given year.
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What is Inferior (position)
In order to hurl a ray, a planet has to be in what position to another planet?
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What is Uranus
This planet is the only planet whose name derives directly from Ancient Greek gods, instead of Roman gods, in English.
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Who is Helena Blavatsky
This Russian mystic co-founded Theosophy in 1875, a religion based on their writings of eastern and western ideas that Dane Rudhyar, Marc Edmond Jones and Alan Leo were affiliated with.
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What is Baghdad
Once an observatory and library of astronomical and astrological texts were built in this 8th century city, the way was paved for Greek and Latin texts on astrology to survive the Inquisition, remaining safely housed here in the House of Wisdom.
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What is Zodiacal Releasing from Spirit
This timing technique, calculated as the inverse of the Part of Fortune, identifies relative periods of heightened professional activity in a native's life.
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What is 7 (degrees)
For a maltreatment by enclosure to be broken, an intervening planet has to, by body or ray, be within what orb of the planet in question of the maltreatment.
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What is (the) Kuiper (belt)
Eris and Haumea, and other trans-Neptunian objects, reside in this belt.
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What is Ophiuchus
This constellation often causes an uproar in popular western media, coined as the "13th sign" and is (incorrectly) said to upset the entire astrological sign system.
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