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

Motion and the Sun · Intermediate

Morning star

Also called morning apparition

A planet rising before the Sun, visible in the east before dawn; traditionally called oriental.

Venus is the famous morning star. Traditional astrology read planets rising before the Sun differently from those setting after it.

Kind: Astronomy, History
Tradition: Shared across Western traditions
In this site’s birth chart: not used

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