A Glossary of Astrological Terms

Use this glossary to look up the meanings of words you come across on this website, or in your astrological reading. Just select the first letter of the word you need and click on it in the table below to go straight to that sector.

N

Nadir

Cusp of fourth house, Lower Meridien, Imum Coeli (IC).

Natal Chart

Horoscope drawn for the Nativity. Birth Chart.

Nativity

Moment of first breath. Also the Natal Chart.

Neomenium

The change of the Moon to New Moon, especially that which occurs closest to the Vernal Ingress.

Neptune

One of the outer, trans-personal planets. Rules Pisces with Jupiter, Exalted in Cancer.

More about Neptune.

Neutral Planets

Mercury and Neptune. These two tend to be benefic when well aspected to the benefics and unfavourable when forming any aspect to the malefics.

Ninth House

The ninth chart segment, governing higher learning, religious education, long distance travel, lawyers, legal affairs and publishing.

Nocturnal Arc

The distance in space or time taken by a planet passing through the night.

Nodes

The point in the zodiac where a planet passes from southern into northern lattitude is called the North Node and vice versa. The motion of the Moon's Node is retrograde, about 3' per day (see Dragon's Head). The north node is called the ascending, the south the descending node. Neither the Sun nor the Earth have nodes.

Noon Mark

Mean local time at birthplace when it is noon at Greenwich, England.

Northern Signs

Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo. In these signs the Sun has northern declination.