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A PHILOSOPHIC ENCYCLOPEDIA of astroLocy 113 to have an ephemeris for the birth year of any person before you can cast his horoscope.

Equator:

The earth’s equator is an imaginary line in a plane at right angles to the axis of the earth, and midway between the North and South poles. It divides the earth into two hemispheres, the Northern and Southern. If a pole hundreds of millions of miles in length were thrust through the earth from the equator to the center of the earth, the outer end would inscribe a line on the firmament, when the earth rotates on its axis, and this imaginary line is called the celestial equator, or equinoctial. The latter name is given it because when the Sun is at the points where the ecliptic or Sun’s path crosses the celestial equator we have the equinoxes, the times when the days and nights are of equal duration.

Equinoctial: See ‘Equator.’

Equinox:

The equinoxes occur on the 21st of March when the Sun enters Aries, and the 21st of September when the Sun enters Libra. At those times the day and night are of equal length all over the earth. See ‘Equator,’ and ‘Precession of the Equinox.’

Essential Dignity:

A planet is strengthened or essentially dignified when it is in a sign which agrees with its own