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A PHILOSOPHIC ENCYCLPEDIA OF ASTROLOGY 163 the horoscope have a certain significant bearing upon the affairs of life.

Signs:

The signs of the Zodiac are divisions of the heavens beginning at the vernal equinox. The first thirty degrees are called Aries, the next Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces.

These signs are, as said, measured from the vernal equinox, a fluctuating point, and are not to be confused with the twelve constellations of fixed stars which bear the same names, nor with the twelve houses of the horoscope which are divisions of the earth. See ‘Intellectual Zodiac’ and ‘Houses.’

Solar Day:

Is the time which elapses between two successive passages of the Sun over the meridian of a given place. See chapter on ‘Time’ p 18.

Solstice:

This word is compounded of the two words, ‘sol,’ the Sun, and ‘sistere,’ to make to stand; thus understood, it describes nicely what happens at the solstice, for a solstice is a point at which the Sun is in its highest point of declination and furthest from the celestial equator. There it stands or remains for three days in the twenty-third degree of declination before it begins to descend towards its node.