The terms Natalora uses

Terms

90° Dial

Uranian astrology · German: 90°-Scheibe

A dial that folds the 360° zodiac into 90°, so planets in conjunction, square or opposition fall on one spot and show at a glance. The Hamburg School works mostly on it.

Activation

Uranian astrology · German: Auslösung

The time when a transit or solar-arc factor reaches one point of a planetary picture, so the picture starts to work in daily life. The Hamburg School’s word for timing.

Admetos

Uranian astrology

The sixth of the Hamburg School’s eight transneptunians; its key word in the app is stillness.

Angular house

Western astrology

Houses 1, 4, 7 and 10, the ones that begin at the four angles. Traditionally the strongest places for a planet, because they carry the most visible, most active parts of the chart.

Apollon

Uranian astrology

The fifth of the Hamburg School’s eight transneptunians; its key word in the app is expansion.

Aries Point

Uranian astrology

The point at 0° Aries. On the 90° dial it equals 0° of all four cardinal signs, Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn. It stands for the collective, the wider world and the public.

Ascendant (ASC)

Uranian astrology · German: Aszendent

The point of the eastern horizon at the time and place of birth.

Axis

Uranian astrology · German: Achse

A line through a factor or midpoint to the far side of the dial; everything on the same line is read together as one theme.

Ayanamsa

Western astrology

The angle between the tropical and sidereal zodiacs, about 24 degrees today. It grows slowly, by roughly 50 arc-seconds a year, and several versions exist, so two sidereal charts can differ by a fraction of a degree.

Benefic

Western astrology

Traditional label for Jupiter and Venus, read as supportive and generous planets. A tradition's label for their nature, not a promise: any planet can be used well or badly.

Cadent house

Western astrology

Houses 3, 6, 9 and 12, which fall away from the angles. Traditionally the weakest in strength; in modern reading they are the houses of learning, routines, beliefs and the unseen.

Cardinal

Both systems

The modality of Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn, the signs that open a season in the tropical zodiac. Read as starting, initiating and setting direction.

Cazimi

Western astrology

A planet within about 17 arc-minutes (0°17′) of the Sun, "in the heart of the Sun". Traditionally the planet is strengthened rather than overwhelmed. The closest of the three solar conditions.

Combust

Western astrology

A planet within about 8°30′ of the Sun, outside cazimi. Traditionally read as overwhelmed by the Sun's glare, so the matters of that planet are harder to see or express.

Conjunction

Both systems

A small circle with a line leaving it at an angle. Two points at the same degree, 0° apart. Their meanings blend into one.

Contact Dates

Uranian astrology

The dates when a transit or solar-arc factor reaches a point of your natal chart exactly, laid out in time, to see when a theme is set off.

Cupido

Uranian astrology

The first of the Hamburg School’s eight transneptunians; its key word in the app is family.

Detriment

Western astrology

The sign opposite a planet's domicile, such as the Sun in Aquarius. Traditionally the planet is read as out of its element and has to work harder to show what it does.

Dial

Uranian astrology

A disc with every planet and point of a chart around its rim; you turn a pointer to read what shares an axis. The app calls it the dial.

Difference

Uranian astrology · German: Differenz

The distance between two factors, as in A − B, used to see which planet or point of the chart that distance falls on.

Dignity

Western astrology

Traditional astrology's measure of a planet's standing by sign: domicile, exaltation, triplicity, term and face for strength, with detriment and fall as the weak counterparts.

Dispositor

Western astrology

The ruler of the sign a planet is in. Venus in Aries is disposed by Mars. Following dispositors from planet to planet shows which planet the chain of rulers finally leads to.

Domicile

Western astrology

A sign a planet rules, such as the Sun in Leo or Saturn in Capricorn. Traditionally the planet is at home there and acts easily and in its own style. Also called rulership.

Drekkana

Western astrology

The Indian name for splitting a sign into three equal parts, like the decans. The parts go to the lord of the sign, then the lords of the 5th and 9th signs, so it matches the triplicity decans, not the Chaldean ones.

Essential dignity

Western astrology

Traditional astrology's measure of a planet's standing by sign: domicile, exaltation, triplicity, term and face for strength, with detriment and fall as the weak counterparts.

Exaltation

Western astrology

A sign where a planet is traditionally honoured, such as the Sun in Aries or the Moon in Taurus. A planet here is read as working well, like a welcome guest.

Face

Western astrology

Another name for the Chaldean decan lord. Each 10° section of the zodiac has one, in the order Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, starting at 0° Aries. A planet in its own face has a minor dignity.

Face ruler

Western astrology

Another name for the Chaldean decan lord. Each 10° section of the zodiac has one, in the order Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, starting at 0° Aries. A planet in its own face has a minor dignity.

Factor

Uranian astrology · German: Faktoren

Any planet or point placed on the dial: the real planets, the personal points and the transneptunians, each with its own meaning.

Fall

Western astrology

The sign opposite a planet's exaltation, such as the Sun in Libra. Traditionally read as a place where the planet finds it harder to show its best. A description of conditions, not a verdict.

Fixed

Both systems

The modality of Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius, the signs in the middle of a season. Read as sustaining, persisting and holding steady, and sometimes as resisting change.

Grand Trine

Western astrology

Three planets about 120° apart, forming a triangle, usually in one element. A closed circuit of ease: the talent flows, and sometimes goes untested because nothing pushes it.

Hades

Uranian astrology

The second of the Hamburg School’s eight transneptunians; its key word in the app is unfinished matters.

Hamburg School

Uranian astrology · German: Hamburger Schule

The astrologers of Hamburg, Germany, whose work Alfred Witte began early in the 20th century; the source of the midpoints, planetary pictures and transneptunians in this app.

House

Western astrology

One of twelve sectors of the chart, cut from the horizon and meridian of the birthplace. Signs describe how a planet acts, planets describe what acts, and houses describe the area of life where it happens.

Kronos

Uranian astrology

The fourth of the Hamburg School’s eight transneptunians; its key word in the app is authority.

Lunar phase

Western astrology

The Moon's angle to the Sun, from new through crescent, quarter and gibbous to full and back. A chart's natal phase is the Moon–Sun angle at birth, read as a style of how you handle changes.

Malefic

Western astrology

Traditional label for Saturn and Mars, read as the planets that restrict or provoke. A tradition's label, not a verdict: both planets are useful when used with care.

Meridian (MC)

Uranian astrology · German: Meridian

The highest point of the sky at the time and place of birth.

Midpoint

Both systems · German: Halbsumme

The point exactly halfway between two planets or points along the zodiac. Midpoints are the basis of composite charts and a central tool in Uranian astrology.

Minor dignity

Western astrology

Dignity a planet gets from a smaller part of a sign: its Triplicity, Term or Face. It adds a little strength, less than Domicile or Exaltation.

Modality

Both systems

Cardinal, fixed or mutable: how a sign tends to act. Cardinal begins things, fixed holds on to them, mutable adapts them. Each element has one sign of each modality.

Mutable

Both systems

The modality of Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces, the signs that close a season. Read as adapting, adjusting and preparing for what comes next.

Natal Contacts

Uranian astrology

The list of natal points that transits or solar-arc factors touch on a chosen day, on the open dial.

Node

Uranian astrology · German: Mondknoten

Where the Moon's orbit crosses the Sun's path in the sky. Uranian astrology counts it among the Personal Points and reads it as the link with other people.

North Node

Western astrology

A horseshoe opening downward with a small circle at each end. This version marks the mean North Node, the Moon's rising node averaged over time.

Opposition

Both systems

Two small circles joined by a line. Two points 180° apart, straight across the chart from each other: a pull between two sides.

Peregrine

Western astrology

A planet with no essential dignity where it stands: not at home, exalted or in any other dignity. Traditionally called wandering, and read as more dependent on its surroundings and on its ruler.

Personal Points

Uranian astrology · German: persönliche Punkte

The six main points the Hamburg School reads each chart from: the Meridian (MC), the Ascendant (ASC), the Sun, the Moon, the Node and the Aries Point.

Planetary Picture

Uranian astrology · German: Planetenbild

Three or more factors balanced around one axis, for example one planet on the midpoint of two others. The whole group is read as one statement.

Poseidon

Uranian astrology

The eighth of the Hamburg School’s eight transneptunians; its key word in the app is clarity.

Retrograde

Western astrology

When a planet appears to move backward through the zodiac as seen from Earth, an effect of how fast the planets move relative to us, not a change in the planet. Shown as Rx. The Sun and Moon never do it.

Retrograde

Uranian astrology

When a planet appears to move backward through the zodiac as seen from Earth, an effect of how fast the planets move relative to us, not a change in the planet. Shown as Rx. The Sun and Moon never do it.

Semi-sextile

Western astrology

A short stem with a small slanted stroke. Two points 30° apart, in neighbouring signs, a half sextile. A minor aspect read with a tight orb.

Semi-square

Western astrology

A corner mark, a half square. Two points 45° apart. A minor aspect read as a small, nagging friction, with a tight orb.

Sensitive Point

Uranian astrology · German: sensitiver Punkt

A point worked out from three factors with A + B − C. No planet sits there, but when a transit or solar arc reaches it, the related picture comes into play.

Sesquiquadrate

Western astrology

A corner mark topped by a bar, a square and a half. Two points 135° apart. A minor aspect read as friction, with a tight orb.

Sextile

Western astrology

A six-armed asterisk. Two points 60° apart, usually in compatible elements, read as an opportunity that needs a first move.

Sidereal

Both systems

The zodiac measured against the fixed stars. Today it sits about 24 degrees behind the tropical zodiac, so a planet usually has a different sign in each system. Indian and Thai traditional astrology commonly use it.

Solar Arc

Both systems · German: Sonnenbogen

A timing technique that moves every point in the chart forward by the same arc, the distance the Sun has progressed that year, about one degree per year. Contacts to natal points mark timing.

South Node

Both systems

The North Node's horseshoe turned upside down. It marks the South Node, always exactly opposite the North Node, 180 degrees away.

Square

Both systems

A square. Two points 90° apart, usually in signs of the same modality but different elements, read as friction that pushes toward action.

Succedent house

Western astrology

Houses 2, 5, 8 and 11, which follow the angular houses. Traditionally of middle strength: matters here build on and sustain what the angular houses start.

Sum

Uranian astrology · German: Summe

The positions of two factors added together, as in A + B; one part of the formula for a sensitive point.

T-Square

Western astrology

Two planets in opposition that both square a third. The third planet, the apex, is where the tension is released, and is often the planet you are pushed to act with.

Term

Western astrology

Each sign splits into five stretches of degrees of unequal width, each with one ruling planet. A planet inside a stretch it rules gains a little dignity.

Transneptunians

Uranian astrology · German: Transneptuner

Eight hypothetical points the Hamburg School calculates from its own theory: Cupido, Hades, Zeus, Kronos, Apollon, Admetos, Vulkanus and Poseidon. They are read beside the real planets; no body sits there.

Trine

Western astrology

A triangle. Two points 120° apart, usually in the same element, classically read as easy flow.

Triplicity

Western astrology

Three signs of one element, such as Aries, Leo and Sagittarius for fire. Each group has its own triplicity rulers.

Triplicity decan

Western astrology

The decan system where a sign's three decans take the signs of its element in order, beginning with its own: Aries 1 Aries, 2 Leo, 3 Sagittarius. The lord is that sub-sign's ruler.

Triplicity ruler

Western astrology

A planet that shares rule over an element's three signs, by day, by night or jointly. In the Dorothean scheme fire is Sun, Jupiter, Saturn. Not the same thing as the triplicity decan.

Tropical

Both systems

The zodiac measured from the March equinox, so 0° Aries is where spring begins in the northern hemisphere. The signs follow the seasons, not the stars behind them. Most Western astrology uses it.

Under the beams

Western astrology

A planet within about 17° of the Sun. A wider zone than combust, where the planet is traditionally less visible and its voice is softened by the Sun's light.

Uranian Astrology

Uranian astrology

The Hamburg School’s way of reading a chart with the 90° dial, midpoints and planetary pictures. Cosmobiology, from Ebertin, is a separate branch.

Uranus

Western astrology

Two upright strokes joined by a bar, with a circle below. It stands for Uranus, the planet of change, independence and sudden breaks from routine.

Vulkanus

Uranian astrology

The seventh of the Hamburg School’s eight transneptunians; its key word in the app is great strength.

Zeus

Uranian astrology

The third of the Hamburg School’s eight transneptunians; its key word in the app is directed energy.