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acupoint - a point on the body treated by acupuncture or acupressure.

acupressure - healing art based on massage, stimulating and increasing flow of life energy throughout the physical body. (shiatsu, Japanese)

acupuncture - Chinese healing art based on inserting needles in various parts of the body.

Adam Kadmon - the archetypal man, according to the Kabbalah. In the Christian tradition, "heavenly man" or the "mystical body of Christ" wherein we are all one.

Adar - the twelfth month of the Hebrew year. The March lunation. v. Calendar, Jewish.

Adept - one who has attained to proficiency in any art or science. It may be said of a skilled astrologer who, through spiritual development, has attained to superior powers and transcendental knowledge concerning the origins and destiny of mankind. Formerly said of an alchemist who had attained the "great secret" - presumably that concerning the "transmutation of metals." Its modern application is to the transmutation of unfavorable cosmic stimuli and the baser emotions into nobler impulses - thereby achieving the triumph of mind over matter, and of the spiritual over the carnal.

Adjusted Calculation Date - a term used in reference to a directed or progressed horoscope, as indicating the date on which the planet culminates. Also termed Limiting Date. See 'Directions'.

Adonai  - Hebrew God

Adonis - beautiful youth beloved of Aphrodite. His mother, Myrrh, was changed into a tree. He was slain by the jealous Ares who was temporarily changed into a wild boar. Because of Aphrodite's grief the god required him to spend only half the year in Hades. At the midsummer Festival of Adonis, lament over his death merged into rejoicing over his resurrection. Quick-growing potted plants were tended for eight days, then allowed to wither and were flung into the sea. The Greek goddess Aphrodite represented the cosmic power of love and the reproductive forces of Nature; hence the myth symbolizes the annual recurrence and decay of vegetation, and the life cycle of growth, maturity, senescence and death.

Advaita Vedanta  - non-dualistic school of Hindu philosophy.

Advantage, Line of - a term sometimes used with reference to the position of the Moon's Ascending Node in a Geocentric Figure. The line of advantage runs between the cusps of the third decanates of the Third and Ninth Houses. A position of the Node East of this line is judged to be favorable. Related to it are the Arcs of Increased and Dwarfed Stature. From the middle of the First House, clockwise to the middle of the Eighth House, is the arc of Increased Stature, with its peak at cusp of the Twelfth House; and from the middle of the Seventh House, clockwise to the middle of the Second House, is the Arc of Dwarfed Stature, with its peak at the cusp of the Sixth House. See Nodes, Moon's.

aeon - creation step or cycle. Used to measure maturity of souls, Keys of Enoch.

Affinity - a binding by mutual attraction. The Sun is said to have an affinity with all the planets; Mars with Venus, in a magnetic or physical sense; Venus with Jupiter, in a philanthropic sense as one who loves his fellowman; Venus with Mercury, in an artistic sense.

affirmation - a positive statement affirming or asserting something to help manifest it in the physical world.

Afflicted (Afflicted by / in affliction with) - unfavorably aspected. Loosely applied to: (a) any inharmonious aspect to a planet, or (b) to any aspect, particularly the conjunction, parallel, square or opposition, to a malefic planet. Also by some authorities applied to a mundane or zodiacal parallel with, or when, besieged by both Infortunes (q.v.). Some authorities consider that the sensitive degree on any House cusp can be afflicted, though any such consideration must be confined to instances where the birth-moment is known to a certainty.

afterlife - a spiritual state transcending physical death. The continuing existence of a soul, a spirit, an entity following the death of its physical body.

Agape - God's love.

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