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ens the influence of the planet considerably for good or ill according to the nature of the planet and its aspects.
Antares:
See ‘Fixed Stars’.
Apply:
When a swift moving planet approaches an aspect with a slower, it is said to apply to a square, trine etc. of that planet. As the applying planet must be speedier than the one it applies to, it is evident that the Moon applies in turn to the aspects of all the other planets each month when she passes around the zodiac, but Saturn who takes thirty years to make the circle can only apply to Uranus which uses eighty-four years, and to Neptune which takes a hundred and sixty-five years.
That rule holds good when the planets move direct in the Zodiac (from Aries to Taurus etc.), but if the slower moving planet is retrograde (moving from Taurus to Aries etc.), both the planets may be applying to the aspect. (See Direct and Retrograde).
The influence of the planets is always stronger when they are applying than when they are separating.
Ascelli: See ‘Fixed Stars’
Ascendant:
The degree of the zodiac which is on the eastern horizon at a certain time. A new degree rises every
