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Historically, astrological and astronomical symbols have overlapped. Frequently used symbols include signs of the zodiac and classical planets. These originate from medieval Byzantine codices. Their current form is a product of the European Renaissance. Other symbols for astrological aspects are used in various astrological traditions.
The other planets are assigned to signs by halving the zodiac between Cancer and Leo and assigning each planet to one sign on the solar half and each on the lunar half. Mercury is assigned to the two signs next to the luminaries, Gemini and Virgo, because it never travels more than one sign away from the Sun. Venus is assigned to the next two ...
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The use of astronomical symbols for the Sun and Moon dates to antiquity. The forms of the symbols that appear in the original papyrus texts of Greek horoscopes are a circle with one ray for the Sun and a crescent for the Moon. [3] The modern Sun symbol, a circle with a dot (☉), first appeared in Europe in the Renaissance. [3]
Judicial astrology – Form of astrology for forecasting events; Locational astrology – Astrology that factors in locations on Earth; Medical astrology – Astrology of the human physiology; Meteorological astrology – Using astrology for weather forecasting; Mundane astrology – Branch of astrology dealing with politics, government, and law
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 01:05, 19 May 2006: 275 × 252 (23 KB) Gerbrant: Wiki's SVG renderer apparently has a problem with markers, so I changed it to a hand-drawn arrowhead. 00:54, 19 May 2006: 275 × 252 (23 KB) Gerbrant: Astrological Glyphs, traced over from an original JPEG by Jojobinks using Inkscape. Changes ...
It's common in astrology and has been used by NASA. See File:Pluto symbol.svg for Pluto's traditional astronomical planetary symbol. Français : Symbole astrologique et de planète naine de Pluton ; voir File:Pluto monogram.svg pour le symbole traditionale astronomique.
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