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132 results for “the sun” (all words) in Celestial.
- Hour of the Sun Planetary hours · planetary_hours
The Hour of the Sun is one of the planetary hours, in the Hellenistic tradition. It is used for success, authority and leadership. Avoid it for secrecy, shadow work and hiding.
matched: the, sun - Budha-Aditya Yoga Jyotisha · jyotish
Mercury never travels far from the Sun, so this combination occurs in roughly a third of all charts, and its strength turns almost entirely on how far Mercury stands from the Sun. It is the standard combination for a scholar, an administrator or a writer.
matched: the, sun - Asta Jyotisha · jyotish
A graha within a fixed number of degrees of the Sun is asta, combust: it does not rise heliacally, its light is lost in the Sun's, and its significations are read as burnt. The orbs BPHS gives are the Moon 12 degrees, Mars 17, Mercury 14 direct and 12 retrograde, Jupiter 11, Venus 10 direct and 8 retrograde, and Saturn 16.
matched: the, sun - Nitya Yoga Jyotisha · jyotish
The nitya yoga is the fourth limb of the panchanga: add the longitudes of the Sun and the Moon, divide by thirteen degrees twenty minutes, and the quotient names one of twenty-seven yogas running from Vishkambha and Priti through Vyatipata and Vaidhriti. It is a property of the day, not of a person's chart, and it is one of the five things an electional judgement reads.
matched: the, sun - Parivesha Jyotisha · jyotish
Parivesha is the third of the Sun-derived upagrahas: add 180 degrees to Vyatipata and the result is Parivesha, the halo round the sun. It is malefic and is read as the affliction of the bhava it falls in, the classical texts calling it extremely inauspicious.
matched: the, sun - Upaketu Jyotisha · jyotish
Upaketu is the fifth of the Sun-derived upagrahas: add 16 degrees 40 minutes to Indrachapa and the result is Upaketu, the flag - and adding one more sign to Upaketu returns the Sun's own longitude, which closes the chain. It is malefic and afflicts the bhava it occupies.
matched: the, sun - Sun Planets · planets
The Sun is the heart of the solar system and the source of all light and life. In magical tradition, it represents the conscious self, the will, and the vital force. Solar deities across cultures embody kingship, truth, and illumination.
matched: the, sun - Hour of the Moon Planetary hours · planetary_hours
The Hour of the Moon is one of the planetary hours, in the Hellenistic tradition. It is used for intuition, dreams and psychic work. Avoid it for solar work, visibility and aggressive action.
matched: the, sun - Ashtottari Dasha Jyotisha · jyotish
Ashtottari gives a hundred and eight years to eight grahas - the Sun 6, the Moon 15, Mars 8, Mercury 17, Saturn 10, Jupiter 19, Rahu 12 and Venus 21 - and excludes Ketu, who is given no lordship in this system at all. It is not a variant of Vimshottari to be chosen at will: the classical condition for its use is stated by BPHS, and where the condition does not hold the tradition keeps Vimshottari.
matched: the, sun - Hora Jyotisha · jyotish
D2 divides each sign into two horas of fifteen degrees. In the Parashari scheme the two horas are the Sun's (Leo) and the Moon's (Cancer): the first half of an odd sign is the Sun's hora and of an even sign the Moon's, and the planet's varga sign is Leo or Cancer accordingly. Wealth is read from which of the two it falls in, the solar hora being self-earned and the lunar hora inherited or given.
matched: the, sun - Indrachapa Jyotisha · jyotish
Indrachapa is the fourth of the Sun-derived upagrahas: subtract Parivesha from 360 degrees and the result is Indrachapa, Indra's bow, the rainbow. It is malefic, though of the five it is the one the texts treat most mildly, and it is read for the bhava it occupies.
matched: the, sun - Karana Jyotisha · jyotish
A karana is half a tithi, six degrees of the Moon's elongation from the Sun, and there are sixty in a lunation. Eleven names cover them: seven movable karanas (Bava, Balava, Kaulava, Taitila, Gara, Vanija and Vishti) which repeat eight times, and four fixed ones (Shakuni, Chatushpada, Naga and Kimstughna) which fall at the joints of the month.
matched: the, sun - Pancha Mahapurusha Yoga Jyotisha · jyotish
The five mahapurusha yogas are the classical catalogue of human greatness: each pairs a planet with the house of its own strength. Only the five non-luminary tara grahas form them; the Sun and Moon are excluded by definition, while the nodes and outer planets are outside this five-planet catalogue.
matched: the, sun - Panchanga Jyotisha · jyotish
The panchanga is the five-limbed reckoning of a day by which muhurta (electional) work is done: tithi (the lunar day), vara (the weekday), nakshatra (the Moon's asterism), nitya yoga (the Sun-Moon combination) and karana (the half-tithi). A panchanga is also the almanac that prints these five for every day of the year, and the word means 'five limbs' for that reason.
matched: the, sun - Surya Jyotisha · jyotish
Surya is the Sun, the atma-karaka and the graha of the self, the father, the king and authority. Its dignity decides the vitality of the body and the strength of the will, and a strong Sun is read as a person who can command. It is the graha of the 1st house and of the 10th, of the right eye and of the bones.
matched: the, sun - Tithi Jyotisha · jyotish
A tithi is one thirtieth of a lunation, defined as twelve degrees of the Moon's elongation from the Sun: the tithi runs from the moment the elongation reaches a multiple of twelve degrees to the next multiple. There are thirty in a lunar month, fifteen waxing (shukla paksha) and fifteen waning (krishna paksha), and their names are the same in both fortnights with the fifteenth being Purnima in the bright and Amavasya in the dark.
matched: the, sun - Pratipada Jyotisha · jyotish
Pratipada is the first tithi, the day the Moon is twelve degrees past the Sun, and its adhidevata is Agni, the fire that carries offerings. It is the tithi of commencement, read as the moment when a thing may properly be begun.
matched: the, sun - Purnima Jyotisha · jyotish
Purnima is the fifteenth tithi of the waxing fortnight, the full moon, when the Moon stands opposite the Sun and its paksha bala is at its height. It is the Purna tithi of the bright fortnight and the day of the full-moon observances, and its adhidevata is Vishnu (with Chandra, the Moon, in some lists).
matched: the, sun - Saptami Jyotisha · jyotish
Saptami is the seventh tithi, and its adhidevata is Surya, the Sun. The tithi is read as favourable for movement and for anything done in the open, under the eye of authority.
matched: the, sun - Upagraha Jyotisha · jyotish
Upagrahas are the non-luminous ('aprakasha') grahas: points computed from the Sun's or Saturn's position, with no body and no orbit, which afflict the house they fall in. There are two families - the five derived from the Sun (Dhuma, Vyatipata, Parivesha, Indrachapa and Upaketu) and the Saturn-derived Gulika and Mandi, computed from the division of the day or night into eight parts.
matched: the, sun - Vyatipata Jyotisha · jyotish
Vyatipata is the second of the Sun-derived upagrahas: subtract Dhuma from 360 degrees (add 226 degrees 40 minutes to it) and the result is Vyatipata. The name means a great calamity, and the upagraha is read as the point of sudden disaster in the bhava it occupies.
matched: the, sun - Yogini Dasha Jyotisha · jyotish
Yogini assigns the years to eight yoginis rather than to the nine grahas: Mangala 1, Pingala 2, Dhanya 3, Bhramari 4, Bhadrika 5, Ulka 6, Siddha 7 and Sankata 8, each born of a graha - the Moon, the Sun, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Venus and Rahu in that order. The period in force is found by adding three to the number of the birth nakshatra and dividing by eight, the remainder giving the yogini.
matched: the, sun - Dharma Bhava Jyotisha · jyotish
The ninth bhava is the father, the guru, dharma, fortune, long journeys and higher learning. It is the best of the trikonas after the lagna and the house from which 'fortune' in the ordinary sense is read; the tradition treats its strength as the measure of grace in a chart rather than of effort.
matched: the, sun - Karma Bhava Jyotisha · jyotish
The tenth bhava is the career, the work done in the world, status and authority. It is the highest point of the chart (the midheaven in Western terms) and a kendra, and it is also an upachaya house, so the career grows with time. The 10th from the Moon and the 10th from the lagna are both read, and they need not agree.
matched: the, sun - Tanu Bhava Jyotisha · jyotish
The first bhava is the body, the self and the constitution, and the point from which the whole chart is counted. Its cusp is the lagna: the degree of the rising sign at birth. It is both a kendra and a trikona, the only bhava that is both, which is why it is the strongest house in the chart.
matched: the, sun - Kala Sarpa Yoga Jyotisha · jyotish
Kala Sarpa is the most widely used and least classical of the named yogas: a chart in which the planets are all caught on one side of the Rahu-Ketu axis, read as a life bound to a karmic wheel. Its popularity in modern practice is far greater than its textual authority.
matched: the, sun - Kemadruma Yoga Jyotisha · jyotish
Kemadruma is the affliction of the Moon by emptiness: the graha of the mind with nothing beside it on either side. It is among the most feared combinations in the tradition and among the most cancelled in practice, since the conditions are strict and the exceptions are many.
matched: the, sun - Ketu Jyotisha · jyotish
Ketu is the south lunar node, the other chaya graha, and the point of what has already been finished. It gives detachment, spiritual aptitude, loss without explanation, and a peculiar blindness in the affairs of the house it occupies: the native does not see what Ketu covers, and does not much want to. Its gem is the cat's eye (lehsunia, chrysoberyl) and its metal iron.
matched: the, sun - Lagna Jyotisha · jyotish
The lagna is the degree of the zodiac rising on the eastern horizon at the moment of birth, and it is the point from which the whole chart is counted: the 1st bhava is the lagna and every other house is numbered from it. The sign the lagna falls in is the rising sign, and the graha that rules it is the lagna lord, the chart's own ruler.
matched: the, sun - Lot of Spirit Lots · lots matched: the, sun
- Rahu Jyotisha · jyotish
Rahu is the north lunar node, one of the two chaya grahas, the eclipse-demon of the Purana. It is read as the hunger that drives a life: ambition, foreignness, the appetite for what is forbidden or unknown, and the illusion that what is gained is what was wanted. Its gem is the hessonite (gomed), which is a grossular garnet and is carried here as the family head garnet; its metal is lead.
matched: the, sun - Rashi Jyotisha · jyotish
A rashi is one of the twelve signs of thirty degrees each, measured on the sidereal zodiac. Each rashi has a lord (one of the seven classical grahas only), an element (tattva), a gender, one of the three modalities (chara, sthira or dvishabhava) and a set of body parts and qualities that the classical texts describe at length.
matched: the, sun - Samhain Sabbats · sabbats
Celtic new year beginning in darkness, acknowledging that all life emerges from the void. The veil between worlds thins, allowing communion with ancestors and spirits. The Wild Hunt rides. The Crone reigns. What must die, dies. Third and final harvest—what isn't gathered now is left for the spirits.
matched: the, sun - Dwadashi Jyotisha · jyotish
Dwadashi is the twelfth tithi, and it belongs to Vishnu as the day on which the Ekadashi fast is broken. The pair of Ekadashi and Dwadashi is the classical unit of the fortnight's observance, and the tithi is read as benefic for anything that follows a restraint.
matched: the, sun - Vimshottari Dasha Jyotisha · jyotish
Vimshottari allots a hundred and twenty years among the nine grahas, and the period in force at any moment is the one that colours everything else in the chart. The sequence is counted from the Moon's nakshatra at birth, so the balance of the first period depends on how far the Moon had travelled through its nakshatra; each period is then divided into sub-periods (antardasha or bhukti) in the same order beginning with the period lord, and those again into pratyantardashas.
matched: the, sun - Bing Chinese calendar · chinese_calendar
Bing (丙, bǐng) is a yang heavenly stem of fire, in the south, in summer.
matched: the, sun - Dhuma Jyotisha · jyotish
Dhuma is the first of the five Sun-derived upagrahas: add 133 degrees 20 minutes to the Sun's longitude and the result is Dhuma, the point of smoke. It is malefic by nature and afflicts the bhava it occupies, and it is read in the classical lists of the evils a chart can carry.
matched: the, sun - Fifth House Houses · houses
The Fifth House, “House of Pleasure”, is the 5th house of the chart, the natural house of Leo, ruled by Sun. It governs creativity, pleasure and romance.
matched: the, sun - Guru Jyotisha · jyotish
Guru, or Brihaspati, is Jupiter, the graha of dharma, wisdom, the teacher, children and law. It is the karaka of the 5th house and, with the Sun, of the 9th, so the two houses of the guru and of the disciple are both read from it. Its period is the longest but one in the Vimshottari cycle and is generally read as the most benign.
matched: the, sun - Karaka Jyotisha · jyotish
A karaka is a significator: the planet that 'does' a thing in a chart. There are three senses and they must not be confused. The naisargika (natural) karaka is the fixed signification of a graha - Jupiter for children, Venus for marriage. The bhava karaka is the fixed planet of a house - the Sun for the 1st, Jupiter for the 2nd. The chara (variable) karaka is the Jaimini scheme in which the eight karakas are assigned by degree within a sign, the planet with the highest degree being the atmakaraka, the one of the self.
matched: the, sun - Leo Zodiac · zodiac
Leo is the 5th sign of the zodiac, fire and fixed, ruled by Sun.
matched: the, sun - Litha Sabbats · sabbats
Sun at peak power—longest day. Holly King begins overtaking Oak King (light begins to wane from here). Faeries at their most active. Traditional time for gathering magical herbs at peak potency. Bonfires lit on hilltops. Celebration before the long descent toward winter.
matched: the, sun - Moon Planets · planets
The Moon governs the night, the tides, and the inner world. She reflects the Sun's light into darkness, illuminating what is hidden. Lunar deities across cultures embody mystery, intuition, cycles, and the feminine divine.
matched: the, sun - Planetary Hours Planetary hours · planetary_hours matched: the, sun
- Vakri Jyotisha · jyotish
A graha is vakri when its apparent motion through the zodiac reverses. The Sun and Moon never retrograde, Rahu and Ketu are always retrograde (they are the nodes and move backwards by nature), and the other five do so for part of every year. In Jyotish retrogradation is a source of strength, not of weakness: it is the basis of cheshta bala, the strength of motion, one of the six components of shadbala.
matched: the, sun - Chunfen Chinese calendar · chinese_calendar
Spring equinox; day and night are equal and the sun crosses the celestial equator.
matched: the, sun - Yule Sabbats · sabbats
The longest night gives birth to the returning sun. The Oak King defeats the Holly King. The divine child of light is born from the dark womb of the Great Mother. Promise of warmth returns. We have survived the darkness.
matched: the, sun - Aquarius Zodiac · zodiac
Aquarius is the 11th sign of the zodiac, air and fixed, ruled by Saturn.
matched: the, sun - Aries Zodiac · zodiac
Aries is the 1st sign of the zodiac, fire and cardinal, ruled by Mars.
matched: the, sun - Orb of an Aspect Aspects · aspects
The allowance of degrees within which a configuration is treated as an aspect at all. It is a convention, not an observation, and the two main conventions disagree in kind: the traditional orb is a property of the planet and is halved into a moiety, so the permitted distance between two planets is the sum of their moieties; the modern orb is a property of the aspect and is applied uniformly.
matched: the, sun - Beltane Sabbats · sabbats
The sacred marriage of goddess and god. Fire festival—cattle driven between two fires for purification. Night when faeries ride and the greenwood calls. Maypole represents union of masculine (pole) and feminine (ribbons, earth). Life force at peak. The Red Goddess walks.
matched: the, sun - Bi Chinese mansions · chinese_mansions
Bi (壁, bì) is one of the twenty-eight Chinese lunar mansions, “the Wall”, in the Black Tortoise of the North, whose animal is the porcupine.
matched: the, sun - Bi Chinese mansions · chinese_mansions
Bi (畢, bì) is one of the twenty-eight Chinese lunar mansions, “the Net”, in the White Tiger of the West, whose animal is the crow.
matched: the, sun - Biquintile Aspects · aspects
Two fifths of the circle. The biquintile closes the pentagram that the quintile opens: where 72 degrees gives a native capacity for form, 144 degrees gives the same capacity at a remove, so it tends to appear as craft exercised on material already made by someone else, or as a talent that only shows when the person is finishing rather than starting.
matched: the, sun - Budha Jyotisha · jyotish
Budha is Mercury, the graha of the discriminating intellect, speech, writing and trade. It owns no single field the way the other grahas do, because it is the faculty rather than the subject: the reasoning that organises counting, language, contracts and the dexterity of the hands. A strong Mercury is a mind that can hold and arrange many things at once, and that is why it is the graha of the administrator and the merchant alike.
matched: the, sun - Capricorn Zodiac · zodiac
Capricorn is the 10th sign of the zodiac, earth and cardinal, ruled by Saturn.
matched: the, sun - Chandra Jyotisha · jyotish
Chandra is the Moon, the graha of the mind (manas), the mother, the emotions and the public. Because the mind is what Jyotish reads most closely, the Moon's sign, nakshatra and phase are read beside the lagna, and a whole chart can be taken from the Moon (Chandra lagna). It rules Cancer and is the karaka of the 4th house.
matched: the, sun - Conjunction Aspects · aspects
Two bodies occupy the same degree: their natures merge. The stronger one colours the weaker; the weaker modifies the stronger. The conjunction is the most powerful aspect and the least objective — the person does not experience it as a relationship between two things but as one thing.
matched: the, sun - Di Chinese mansions · chinese_mansions
Di (氐, dī) is one of the twenty-eight Chinese lunar mansions, “the Root”, in the Azure Dragon of the East, whose animal is the badger.
matched: the, sun - Dou Chinese mansions · chinese_mansions
Dou (斗, dǒu) is one of the twenty-eight Chinese lunar mansions, “the Dipper”, in the Black Tortoise of the North, whose animal is the xiezhi.
matched: the, sun
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