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10 articles for "Mundane"

Mundane [Astro*Index]

[L. mundus, earth.]

1) Used to describe astrological concerns that bear on the entire earth, rather than the individual, as in mundane astrology.

2) Adjectival form of the Latin phrase "in mundo." Often used in contradistinction to zodiacal ("in zodiaco") to refer to astrological factors that are affected by our specific earthly perspective and thus pertain to houses rather than signs.

See also:
♦ Mundane Aspect ♦ Mundane Direction ♦ Mundane Parallel ♦ Mundane Astrology
Mundane Aspect [Astro*Index]

An aspect reckoned by house position rather than zodiacal position. For example, planets measured two houses apart are in mundane sextile, three houses apart mundane square. Some authors use here a broad notion of aspect, allowing a mundane aspect between two planets as long as the houses they occupy have the relationship mentioned above. Others restrict a mundane aspect to the circumstance when two bodies occupy house cusps (de Vore). Most often, however, the term refers to standard geometrical aspects, only measured in accordance with the principles of house division in a given system. Interpretively, since mundane aspects are based on house division, they have more to do with the contingent circumstances surrounding an individual and his relationship to his environment than with his character or personality-that is, with his luck and fortunes. Since mundane aspects are based on house divisions, there may be an extreme discrepancy between a mundane aspect and the corresponding zodiacal aspect, particularly in high latitudes, where a zodiacal sextile may actually be a mundane square, and vice versa. Typically a mundane aspect is measured along the equator in right ascension, instead of along the ecliptic in celestial longitude (cf. zodiacal aspect, although in principle it could be reckoned along any other reference circle such as the prime vertical (cf. mundoscope). Most traditionally, this equatorial arc is measured by the subdivision of the diurnal or nocturnal semi-arc of the bodies in question rather than geometrical projection onto the equator, but again this has to do with the employment of these aspects in the primary directions of Placidus, and could in principle be based on some other principle. According to M. J. Makransky (Primary Directions, Primer of Calculations), "every horoscope house system gives rise to its own definition of Mundane Position and its own system of primary directions." In the cited book, Makransky investigates this question quite exhaustively. As in the case of zodiacal aspects, mundane aspects may be divided into mutual aspects and directional, progressive, or transiting aspects. In keeping with the general astrological significance of houses, we would expect mundane aspects to say something about the contingent circumstances in an individual's life. De Luce has investigated at length the significance of mundane aspects in primary directions, and how it can help determine when certain opportunities may open up for the individual. He also introduced the term "power factor to describe the ratio of these two aspects. As an example of astrological thinking based on transiting mundane aspects, we may cite the work of John Townley, who believes that throughout the day there are various "hot" or lucky times for performing any given activity. These correspond to the times that the pertinent house cusps transit the natal position of the planet associated with that activity, and are dependent upon the individual's specific location and the time of year.

See also:
♦ Right Ascension ♦ Celestial Longitude ♦ Zodiacal Aspect ♦ Prime Vertical ♦ Mundoscope ♦ Equatorial Arc ♦ Semi-arc ♦ Primary Direction ♦ Mutual Aspect ♦ Power Factor
Mundane Aspect [Munkasey M.]

Aspects taken by house position, or from house tohouse. I.e., the 2nd house is trine to the 6th house; the 9th cusp is mundanely trine the ASC. This procedure is used in Primary Directions. When planets in the houses are used for Mundane Aspects either 1/3 or 2/3 of their Ascensional Difference is used when computing their house location.

See also:
♦ Right Ascension ♦ Celestial Longitude ♦ Zodiacal Aspect ♦ Prime Vertical ♦ Mundoscope ♦ Equatorial Arc ♦ Semi-arc ♦ Primary Direction ♦ Mutual Aspect ♦ Power Factor
Mundane Aspects [DeVore]

Those formed by planets occupying cusps, whereby it can be said that from the 10th to the 12th cusps is a Mundane sextile, though it may be as little as 50° or as much as 80°. v. Aspects.

See also:
♦ Aspects ♦ Right Ascension ♦ Celestial Longitude ♦ Zodiacal Aspect ♦ Prime Vertical ♦ Mundoscope ♦ Equatorial Arc ♦ Semi-arc ♦ Primary Direction ♦ Mutual Aspect ♦ Power Factor
Mundane Astrology [Astro*Index]

The astrology of world trends, nations, politics, peoples, events, etc; as distinguished from natal astrology, which is the astrology of the individual.

See also:
♦ Natal Astrology
Mundane Astrology [DeVore]

Mundane Interpretations. An interpretation of Astrology in terms of world trends, the destinies of nations and of large groups of individuals, based on an analysis of the effects of Equinoxes, Solstices, New Moons, Eclipses, planetary conjunctions, and similar celestial phenomena; as distinguished from Natal Astrology, specifically applicable to an individual birth horoscope.

See also:
♦ Natal Astrology
Mundane Directions [Astro*Index]

A system of progressions. Aspects are read between:
1) birth planets progressed clockwise around the natal horoscope at a rate based on the axial rotation of the earth, and
2) the fixed positions of the angles, sun, and moon in the birthchart. There are also Converse Mundane Directions.

See also:
♦ Natal Astrology
Mundane Directions [DeVore]

These are based solely upon the axial rotation of the Earth in relation to the circle of observation whereby planets arc carried clockwise through the Houses of the Figure, from east to west, forming aspects to the Ascendant, Midheaven, Sun and Moon. Aspects formed by the opposite or Converse Motion are also employed. The use of spherical trigonometry and of logarithms is necessary to reliable use of this so-called Primary System of Directing. Knowledge of the exact place, hour and minute is also essential.

See also:
♦ Natal Astrology
Mundane Parallel [Astro*Index]

Also called parallel in mundo. The mundane aspect formed by two bodies which are on opposite sides and equidistant from any of the four cardinal angles of a chart. When two bodies form this aspect mutually by direction, it is called a rapt parallel. Such parallels can also be formed between a body and a radix position by direction (investigated by Placidus), progression or transit. The mundane parallel is in no way related to parallel of declination. Instead it is the house system analogue of the zodiacal antiscion and contra-antiscion. In the quasi-Aristotelean scheme of Placidus (who apparently introduced this aspect), the four primary qualities are associated with each of the cardinal angles: moisture with the IC, heat with the ASC, dryness with the MC, coldness with the DSC. Each planet begins to influence the same qualities of the bodies on earth as it passes through each cardinal angle. The qualitative intension of this effect waxes until it reaches the angle opposite, whereupon it wanes until it returns to its original position. Because hot and cold, wet and dry, are contraries, an increase in one member of the pair is tantamount to a decrease in the other. At the same time, the contrary members begin to be effective at opposite angles. Thus, when two bodies are parallel, they are producing the same intension of the same quality, and this is the grounds for interpreting the aspect. Placidus believes that antiscia have the same significance, since zodiacal position of a body can be correlated to the primary qualities in a precisely similar manner. American astrologer John Townley (Astrological Cycles and the Life Crisis Periods) has generalized the notion of a mundane parallel, investigating parallels formed by transiting bodies equidistant from any natal house cusp, not just the angles. In his view, such a parallel formed by Jupiter and Saturn (to take the best pairing of traditional benefic and malefic planets) represents a crisis point in which the person's fortunes are about to change in regard to matters governed by that house. This is in keeping with the general astrological significance of mundane aspects as related to contingent environmental circumstances in an individual's life. If Jupiter is waxing in relation to the house cusp, and Saturn is waning, this generalized parallel represents a turn for the better; if the reverse is the case, then it represents a turn for the worse.

 

See also:
♦ Aspect ♦ Horizontal Parallel ♦ Mundane Aspect ♦ Cardinal ♦ Rapt Parallel ♦ Antiscion ♦ Contra-antiscion
Mundane Parallel, or Parallel in Mundo [DeVore]

A progressed position in which a Significator and a Promittor occupy points on opposite sides and equidistant to any of the four Angles of the geocentric Figure: Ascendant, Midheaven, Descendant, or Imum Coeli. v. Parallel.

 

See also:
♦ Parallel ♦ Aspect ♦ Horizontal Parallel ♦ Mundane Aspect ♦ Cardinal ♦ Rapt Parallel ♦ Antiscion ♦ Contra-antiscion

 

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