Astronomia Glossary
Archetypes:
Many astrologers consider the zodiac signs as archetypes. Carl Jung described archetypes as universal models that influence human behavior. He suggested they are archaic forms of innate human knowledge.
For example under these groupings we see each planets archetype (other adjectives could be used),
Order: Sun: Sovereign Saturn; Gender neutral adjectives selected deliberately.
Relationships: Moon: Nurturer; Venus: Lover
Creativity: Mercury: Story teller Neptune: Dreamer
Change: Uranus: Renegade Pluto: Transformation
Action: Mars: Warrior Pluto: Transformation
Aspects
Aspects are measured by mathematical angles, An Aspect is the distance between any two planets and zodiac signs. There are seven major aspects that astrologers look at. They are “soft” (or easy) aspects (conjunct, sextile, trine) and “hard” aspects (semi sextile, square, quincunx, opposition). Minor aspects and declination also impact the relationships between the planets.
Astrological Ages:
Astrological ages are determined by the precession of the equinoxes, which move westward along the ecliptic (the sun’s apparent path) relative to the fixed stars. There are twelve astrological ages of about 2,160 years each corresponding to the twelve zodiacal signs in western astrology. We have been in the Age of Pisces and either have entered or will enter the Age of Aquarius
Cosmology:
Cosmology deals with the world as the totality of space, time and all phenomena
Duality:
The principle of duality would state that every aspect of life is created from a balanced interaction of opposite and competing forces. Yet these forces are not just opposites; they are complementary. They do not cancel out each other, they merely balance each other like the dual wings of a bird. The dual wings still belong to one bird.
Duality in physics:
In physics and chemistry, wave-particle duality holds that light and matter exhibit properties of both waves and of particles. The idea of duality is shown in a debate over the nature of light and matter dating back to the 1600s.
Dark Matter and Dark Energy:
Because humanity depends upon our sun for life, we have associated light with good and dark with not good. After introducing Level One information, we can look for better words than dark matter and dark energy.
Eccentricity::
Our Solar System planets have near-circular orbits (i.e., unusually low eccentricity) compared with the known planets that orbit stars other than the Sun. Eccentricity measures how an orbit deviates from circular. A perfectly circular orbit has an eccentricity of zero; higher numbers indicate more elliptical orbits. Habitability may be more common with lower typical eccentricities.
Neptune, Venus, and Earth are the planets in our solar system with the least eccentric orbits. Pluto and Mercury are the planets in our solar system with the most eccentric orbits.
Equality:
Is there equal justice in the nature of reality? These are thoughts for another Astronomia level.
Gravity:
Einstein believed gravity was not a force but a consequence of the curvature of spacetime caused by the uneven distribution of mass. Perhaps the main character of gravity is the hadron (a class inside the atom), playing the role of gravity as a conductor, coordinator, messenger, and composer. Those are thoughts for another Astronomia level.
Glyph:
A pictorial symbol for a word or phrase. Pictographs were used as the earliest known form of writing, examples having been discovered in Egypt and Mesopotamia from before 3000 BC., Astrology's planetary glyphs combine these symbols.
circle: spirit; or the vital creative energies of life.
crescent: receptivity; perceptiveness; contact with new realities. the crescent may receive from various levels of information: upward toward the superconscious, horizontally toward either left-brain or right-brain perceptions, or downward toward the subconscious.*
cross: matter; pragmatism; practical application.
Hologram, Holographic:
The holographic principle says that everything that happens in a space can be explained in terms of information that can be stored on the surface of that space. You could use the information contained on the 2-dimensional surface of the space to reconstruct 3-dimensional object. Black Holes show this principle. At its extreme: the theory of a holographic universe suggests that we are holographic and live in a hologram. Could that be true?
Information Theory:
In 1948, Shannon defined in mathematical terms what information is and how it can be transmitted. Its impact has been crucial to the success of the Voyager missions to deep space, the invention of the compact disc, the feasibility of mobile phones, the development of the Internet, the study of linguistics and of human perception, the understanding of black holes, and numerous other fields.
Indra Net
This speaks to the hidden interconnectedness and interdependency of everything and everyone in the universe, Indra’s Net shoots holes in the assumption or imputation of a solid and fixed universe ‘out there’. The capacity of one jewel to reflect the light of another jewel from the other edge of infinity is something that is difficult for the linear mind, rational mind to comprehend. The mind's capacity to reflect all things attests to being a mirror of reality, not its basis.
Mystic:
Intuition is unlearned knowledge. The mystic has insight into this unlearned knowledge that springs from a cosmic source. Though a mystic may use reason and logic, as would another, the mystic accepts subtleties of experience that other people may not accept. Albert Einstein said: “The most beautiful, the most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical.
Planetary Radio Emissions:
Astronomical objects that have a changing magnetic field can produce radio waves. By 2016 scientistic studies suggest it appears the human brain may be using the fields to communicate without synaptic transmissions, gap junctions or diffusion. The brain tirelessly monitors the changing frequencies of neurons. Radio waves This is a new area for astrologers to speculate on.
Rulership:
The idea of rulership is old. Each planet is said to ‘rule’ one or more astrological signs, meaning that the planet is connected intimately to the characteristics of that sign. The planet is at its strongest when it is in the sign it rules because it is able to perform best, in an environment that supports it and brings out its best traits. Some astrologers prefer the words "associated with".
Synchronicity
Carl Jung first defined synchronicity in the 1920s as the ‘simultaneous occurrence of two meaningfully but not causally connected events’ .Synchronicity has some features in common with the physical phenomenon of entanglement, whereby physical particles at vast distances from each other have been found to interact instantaneously. Astrology observers when synchronicity is most likely to occur.