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  • What's your sign?
    astrology
    / Astrology in the Hellenistic period (3rd century bce to 3rd century ce)

    A second is the prorogator, a point on the ecliptic that, traveling at the rate of one degree of oblique ascension a year toward either the descendant or ascendant, determines a person’s length of life. Another is the method of continuous horoscopy, under which anniversary diagrams are compared with…

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    A second is the prorogator, a point on the ecliptic that, traveling at the rate of one degree of oblique ascension a year toward either the descendant or ascendant, determines a person’s length of life. Another is the method of continuous horoscopy, under which anniversary diagrams are compared with…

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