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Diurnal

Also called day planet

Of the day sect: the Sun, Jupiter and Saturn.

Ptolemy explained the grouping by the day's warmth tempering Saturn's cold.

Kind: Technique
Tradition: Hellenistic astrology, Traditional Western astrology
In this site’s birth chart: not used

Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos I.7, “Of Diurnal and Nocturnal Planets” (Robbins translation, 1940) (opens in a new tab) historical

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