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Nocturnal

Also called night planet

Of the night sect: the Moon, Venus and Mars.

Mercury joins whichever sect it is rising or setting with.

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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