Real astronomy and dated history, with sources. Documented traditions and folklore. Modern lunar astrology · symbolic, not predictive.

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Horizon

The line dividing the visible sky from what is below it; the Ascendant and Descendant are where the ecliptic meets it.

In a chart the horizon is the Ascendant–Descendant axis: planets in houses 7 to 12 were above the horizon at birth and those in 1 to 6 below it. This is also how a chart is classed as a day or night chart.

Kind: Astronomy
Tradition: Shared across Western traditions
In this site’s birth chart: used

Swiss Ephemeris documentation (Astrodienst): house systems, nodes and calculation conventions (opens in a new tab) technical

Written for Cool Moon Facts in its own words. An astrology source documents what astrologers believe or practise; it does not establish that astrology works.

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