10th house
A chart house. Public standing, vocation, command, achievement and the judgement of those with authority.
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Glossary
A guide to the words used across this site and in the texts behind it. Definitions describe historical usage, not proven supernatural effects. A term may mean different things in different traditions; the tradition label tells you which sense is meant here.
Looking for a sign rather than a word? Symbols draws the signs of astrology, alchemy and geomancy and links each to what this study says about it.
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11th house
A chart house. Friends, patrons, collective support, benefactors and hopes that depend on cooperation.
12th house
A chart house. Isolation, confinement, secret enemies, self-undoing and conditions difficult to see directly.
1st house
A chart house. The body, temperament and manner of entering situations.
2nd house
A chart house. Money, movable possessions, sustenance and the means by which life is supported.
3rd house
A chart house. Siblings, neighbours, short journeys, messages and the familiar environment.
4th house
A chart house. Home, parents, land, ancestry and the conditions from which a matter grows or finally settles.
5th house
A chart house. Children, delight, courtship, games and works made for their own expressive pleasure.
6th house
A chart house. Illness, daily labour, servants, small animals and the maintenance work life requires.
7th house
A chart house. Marriage, contracts, one-to-one alliances, rivals and adversaries who can be named.
8th house
A chart house. Other people’s money, debts, inheritances, loss, fear and encounters with mortality.
9th house
A chart house. Religion, divination, higher learning, dreams, publishing and travel beyond familiar bounds.
Aeon
Also: Aion
A divine emanation or being in some Gnostic mythologies; the number and names of aeons differ between schools.
Air Dagger
A ritual tool in Golden Dawn. The Golden Dawn's Air implement: a short blade with a bright-yellow hilt and violet or purple names, sigils, and motto.
Albedo
The whitening named in some alchemical color sequences, after blackening in the sequence discussed by this source.
Alchemical transmutation
The proposed change of one substance or metal into another. Making gold from a less valued metal was a famous goal, not an established result of the old recipes.
Alchemy
A historical family of practices and theories about changing matter, especially metals. Its laboratory work, coded language, medicine and philosophical aims varied considerably across places and centuries.
Alembic
A distilling vessel or still, used to heat substances and guide the vapor toward collection.
Altar
A ritual tool in Crowley, Book 4. Book 4's double-cube centre: the fixed basis of the work, the law under which it proceeds, and the container of every temple implement except the lamp.
Amulet
A carried or worn object credited with protection; unlike a general talisman, the protective purpose is central to the word's common use.