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One symbol, ♇, is a monogram of the letters PL (which can be interpreted to stand for Pluto or for astronomer Percival Lowell), was announced with the name of the new planet by the discoverers on May 1, 1930. [11] Another symbol, popularized in Paul Clancy's American Astrology magazine, is based on Pluto's bident: . [12]
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Housecarl is a calque of the original Old Norse term, húskarl, which literally means "house man". Karl is cognate to the Old English churl, or ceorl, meaning a man, or a non-servile peasant. [2] The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle uses hiredmenn as a term for all paid warriors and thus is applied to housecarl, but it also refers to butsecarls [a] and ...
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
Babylonian astronomers studied the rising times of the signs and calculated tables of ascensions for their latitude, but it would take better time measurements by the Egyptians and the introduction of the concept of ascendant, around the 2nd century BC, to give astrological houses their first recognisable structure and meaning, from the ...
Various approaches to measuring and dividing the sky are currently used by differing systems of astrology, although the tradition of the Zodiac's names and symbols remain mostly consistent. Western astrology measures from Equinox and Solstice points (points relating to equal, longest, and shortest days of the tropical year ), while Hindu ...
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Zodiac symbols (Vedic astrology) on the terrace of a temple in Kanipakam, Andhra Pradesh. Sidereal (Vedic) astrology shares the same system as Western astrology of linking zodiac signs to elements. In addition, in Vedic thought each of the five planets are linked to an element (with space as the fifth).