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  2. Planets in astrology - Wikipedia

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    In astrology, planets have a meaning different from the astronomical understanding of what a planet is.Before the age of telescopes, the night sky was thought to consist of two similar components: fixed stars, which remained motionless in relation to each other, and moving objects/"wandering stars" (Ancient Greek: ἀστέρες πλανῆται, romanized: asteres planetai), which moved ...

  3. Transit of Venus - Wikipedia

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    A transit of Venus takes place when Venus passes directly between the Sun and the Earth (or any other superior planet), becoming visible against (and hence obscuring a small portion of) the solar disk. During a transit, Venus is visible as a small black circle moving across the face of the Sun. Transits of Venus reoccur periodically.

  4. Astrological transit - Wikipedia

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    Transiting Venus is at its peak for about two days, and usually indicates feelings of love. Sometimes the influence is financial through receiving gifts or money. Transits to the sun and ascendant indicate a good time to buy new clothes or to beautify yourself, and transits to the moon a good time to beautify the home and buy new household goods.

  5. Hindu astrology - Wikipedia

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    Hindu astrology. Hindu astrology, also called Indian astrology, Jyotisha (Sanskrit: ज्योतिष, romanized:jyotiṣa; from jyót 'light, heavenly body') and, more recently, Vedic astrology, is the traditional Hindu system of astrology. It is one of the six auxiliary disciplines in Hinduism that is connected with the study of the Vedas.

  6. Dasha (astrology) - Wikipedia

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    Vimshottari in Sanskrit stands for the number 120. [4] Vimshottari Dasha assumes that the maximum duration of life of an individual human being is 120 Solar sidereal years which is the aggregate duration of all nine planetary periods i.e. Ketu 7, Venus 20, Sun 6, Moon 10, Mars 7, Rahu 18, Jupiter 16, Saturn 19 and Mercury 17, in the order of their operation.

  7. Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The Brihat Parashara Hora Shastra (Sanskrit: बृहत् पराशर होरा शास्त्र; IAST: bṛhat parāśara horā śāstra; abbreviated to BPHS) is the most comprehensive extant Śāstra on Vedic natal astrology, in particular the Horā branch (predictive astrology, e.g. horoscopes). [1] Though ascribed to ...

  8. Astronomical transit - Wikipedia

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    Astronomical transit. Phobos transits the Sun, as viewed by the Perseverance rover on 2 April 2022. In astronomy, a transit (or astronomical transit) is the passage of a celestial body directly between a larger body and the observer. As viewed from a particular vantage point, the transiting body appears to move across the face of the larger ...

  9. Planetary dispositors (Hindu astrology) - Wikipedia

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    The dispositor is the planet which is the ruler of the sign or house that is occupied by another sign or house lord. [2] Western astrology looks upon planetary dispositors as the final response to the meaning of an aspect in a horoscope, [3] and it prefers drawing up of Dispositor trees that assist in determining in the Natal Chart the temporal status and the active nature of all planets.