Archangel
A high-ranking angel in several religious and esoteric classifications. Lists and roles vary by source and tradition.
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Glossary
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Archon
A ruler or cosmic power in some Gnostic accounts, often associated with the lower world and obstacles to a soul's ascent.
Aries
The Aries sign of the zodiac. The wheel begins here. Aries is cardinal fire: the first push, the clean break, and the courage to move while the road is still being made.
Ars Goetia
The first book of the Lemegeton, presenting a catalogue of seventy-two spirits and a ritual apparatus for addressing them.
Ascendant
Also: Rising sign
The point of the ecliptic rising at the eastern horizon for a chart's time and place; it begins the first house in many house systems.
Ascent
The soul's movement toward a divine realm or condition in some late-antique philosophical and religious texts, often narrated through cosmic levels.
Aspect
A measured angular relationship between chart positions. A sign-to-sign relationship is only an approximation of an exact planetary aspect.
Athanor
A furnace associated with sustained heating in an alchemist's workshop.
Attestation
Also: Attested
The evidence that something is actually recorded somewhere. A well-attested attribution appears in sources; an unattested one does not.