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110 SIMPLIFIED SCIENTIFIC ASTROLOGY been no secondary lunar direction at the time the event would have remained latent until the next lunar aspect of the progressed Moon either brought it out to life or withered it.

Lunations (New Moons) are also powerful factors in energizing directions, particularly if they are eclipses. See ‘Lunations’ and ‘Eclipses, also ‘Transits’,

Double Bodied Signs:

Gemini, Sagittarius and Pisces. So called because in the pictorial Zodiac Gemini is represented as a pair of twins, Sagittarius as a Centaur, part man and part horse, and Pisces as two fishes. They are of a dual, vacillating nature, and it is remarkable that events in the lives of people having these signs promiment are repeated. They marry several times, their misfortunes never come singly, but their good fortunes also come in multiple.

Dragon’s Head:

The Moon’s North Node. The Nodes are points in the orbit of a planet where it crosses the ecliptic, or Sun’s path. The one where it crosses from south to north is called its ascending or North node; the other point where it crosses from north to south is called its descending or South node.

When the Sun is in the Hast and crosses the celestial equator from the south to the north, it enters its martial exaltation sign Aries as a conquering king