Western astrology is founded on the movements and relative positions of celestial bodies such as the Sun, Moon, planets, which are analyzed by their movement through signs of the zodiac ( spatial divisions of the ecliptic ) and by their aspects ( angles ) relative to one another.

Since the mid-20th century, there has been an ongoing search for signs of extraterrestrial life, from radios used to detect possible extraterrestrial signals, to telescopes used to search for potentially habitable extrasolar planets.

Among the findings were the Enuma Elish, also known as the Epic of Creation, which depicts a traditional Babylonian view of creation, the Epic of Gilgamesh, a large selection of " omen texts " including Enuma Anu Enlil which " contained omens dealing with the moon, its visibility, eclipses, and conjunction with planets and fixed stars, the sun, its corona, spots, and eclipses, the weather, namely lightning, thunder, and clouds, and the planets and their visibility, appearance, and stations ", and astronomic / astrological texts, as well as standard lists used by scribes and scholars such as word lists, bilingual vocabularies, lists of signs and synonyms, and lists of medical diagnoses.

The general theory of magick proposes that there are various forces which are represented by the classical elements ( air, earth, fire, and water ), the planets, the signs of the Zodiac, and adjacent spaces in the astral world.

The sephiroth are represented by the planets and the paths by the characters of the Hebrew alphabet, which are subdivided by the four classical elements, the seven classical planets, and the twelve signs of the Zodiac.

Each sephira and path is assigned various ideas, such as gods, cards of the Tarot, astrological planets and signs, elements, etc.

Under the Greeks, and Ptolemy in particular, the planets, Houses, and signs of the zodiac were rationalized and their function set down in a way that has changed little to the present day.

The positions of the actual planets ( including Sun and Moon ) are placed in the chart, along with those of purely calculated factors such as the lunar nodes, the house cusps including the midheaven and the ascendant, zodiac signs, fixed stars and the lots.

Having established the relative positions of the signs in the houses, the astrologer positions the sun, moon, and planets at their proper celestial longitudes.

An alternative explanation may be the ruling of astrological signs of the zodiac by the planets: if the signs are listed along with their ruling planets in the traditional order starting with Aries, ignoring duplication, Pluto ( then undiscovered ) and the luminaries ( the Sun and Moon ), the order of the movements corresponds.

In a translation of an ancient Nabataean text by Kuthami the Babylonian, Ibn Wahshiyya ( c. 9th-10th century AD ), adds information on his own efforts to ascertain the identity of Tammuz, and his discovery of the full details of the legend of Tammuz in another Nabataean book: " How he summoned the king to worship the seven ( planets ) and the twelve ( signs ) and how the king put him to death several times in a cruel manner Tammuz coming to life again after each time, until at last he died ; and behold!

Positioned around the central painting are six roundels containing personifications of six of the then known planets of the Moon, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn with their associated zodiac signs.

So the fact that the opposition creates a dynamic and exalted energy between the planets involved is not as clearly negative as for instance the square, but it can be indicative of tension, conflict or confrontation, due to the polarity between the two signs involved if not channeled constructively.

When one of the four signs of any modality or quality does not contain any planet-or only contains planets that would be out of orb for a Grand Cross-then a T-Square is said to be formed.

In a Grand Cross, there is one planet in each astrological element ( fire, earth, air and water ) but all the planets are in signs of the same modality or quality.

Power ( δύναμις ) emanates from the seven and the twelve heavenly bodies, or, in other words, from the planets and the signs of the zodiac.

He already had that slow pace that comes over the elderly, while she herself had all the signs of one who appreciates the joys of living.

The huge market for changeable signs has spurred a universal demand for individual plastic letters, in all shapes and sizes -- and a number of companies are set up to supply them.

There are signs that it has struggled for days to escape and that in a frenzy of hunger, pain, and fear, it has all but eaten off its own leg.

Wavy lines, feather-like patterns, rosettes of indefinitely floral nature, birds either singly or in stylized rows, animals in solemn frieze bands ( see Plates 11 - 12 ) -- all these turned up in the more developed fabrics as preliminary signs that the potters were broadening their gaze.

* 1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Regime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.

" The cover features a cartoon drawing by Capp of wildly dressed, angry hippies carrying protest signs with slogans like " End Capp Brutality ," " Abner and Daisy Mae Smoke Pot ," " Capp Is Over 40, 50 — all crossed out the Hill!

For given nonzero integers a and b there is a nonzero integer of minimal absolute value among all those of the form ax + by with x and y integers ; one can assume d > 0 by changing the signs of both s and t if necessary.

The cumulative impact of the Attlee ’ s Government ’ s health and welfare policies was such that all the indices of health ( such as statistics of school medical or dental officers, or of medical officers of health ) showed signs of improvement, with continual improvements in survival rates for infants and increased life expectancy for the elderly.

The GKOS is a 6-key keyboard with a different signs and commands allocation of the 63 different chords in order to provide all PC keyboard functions and to make entering letters and numbers lighter by having to press fewer keys simultaneously.

Derrida then sees these differences, as elemental oppositions ( 0-1 ), working in all " languages ", all " systems of distinct signs ", all " codes ", where terms don't have an " absolute " meaning, but can only get it from reciprocal determination with the other terms ( 1-0 ).

And above all else, " Remember that all the other caveats are only reminders and warning signs whose application to different circumstances of the real world is contingent.

Just like the twelve signs of the zodiac represent the whole universe, the twelve gold stars stand for all peoples of Europe – including those who cannot as yet take part.

Now all these signs ( of spiritual gifts ) are forthcoming from my side without any difficulty, and they agree, too, with the rules, and the dispensations, and the instructions of the Creator ; therefore without doubt the Christ, and the Spirit, and the apostle, belong severally to my God.

Similarly, letters of credence may contain the name of the head of state, not the governor-general, even if it is the latter who signs and receives them ; in 2005, Canada, Australia and New Zealand changed their policies and now all letters of credence solely address the governor-general of the relevant nation, not to the sovereign.

Neither of these ocular signs should be confused with exophthalmos ( protrusion of the eyeball ), which occurs specifically and uniquely in hyperthyroidism caused by Graves ' disease ( note that not all exopthalmos is caused by Graves ' disease, but when present with hyperthyroidism is diagnostic of Graves ' disease ).

Cracked necks, non-reloadable cases ( steel, aluminum, or Berdan primed cases ), and signs of head separation are all reasons to reject a case.

Despite the efforts of philologists from all parts of the world, and despite the use of modern cryptographic analysis, the signs remain undeciphered.

Similarly to Leibniz solution, in a real life, we can say the person ( or any macroscopic object ) is the same, because all signs refer to the person ( or object ) in the past, which evolved in time.

With regard to the second and / or third letters in the prefixes in the list below, if the country in question is allocated all callsigns with A to Z in that position, then that country can also use call signs with the digits 0 to 9 in that position.

* 1924 – U. S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.

There was a time when certain authorities considered the signs enough, so Jews started eating this bird without a masorah because it possesses all the signs ( simanim in Hebrew ) and there is a place for this in Jewish law.

For this reason cryptologists tend to look at indicators that an algorithm or key length shows signs of potential vulnerability, to move to longer key sizes or more difficult algorithms.

To see signs of muscle weakness the neurologist will ask patients to walk on their heels or to move part of their leg against an opposing force.

Key members of the Al Thani family supported this move, which took place without violence or signs of political unrest.

This was considered by many industry watchers to be a particularly peculiar move, since the market for such hard drives ( mainly notebook computers and MP3 players ) was already experiencing rapid growth, with no signs of slowing down in the foreseeable future.

Rigor mortis ( Latin: rigor " stiffness ", mortis " of death ") is one of the recognizable signs of death, caused by chemical changes in the muscles after death, causing the limbs of the corpse to become stiff and difficult to move or manipulate.

He realized the significance of the signs that heralded the coming storm, and tried in vain to move the king to a policy which would have placed him at the head of a Germany united and free.

Additionally, the tragedy prompted the pharmaceutical industry to move away from capsules, which were easy to contaminate as a foreign substance could be placed inside without obvious signs of tampering.

Once the Shu troops had begun to show signs of fatigue, Lu Xun, after several months of inactivity, suddenly struck, first tricking the Shu commanders with a mock attack on one of their camps, then ordering his troops to move forward with torches and set fire to all the other camps of Liu Bei's army.

In a move some thought to be ungracious, given his long service, his name was removed from the club signs at its home ground, Optus Oval, Princes Park.

Bourassa's use of the notwithstanding clause of the Canadian constitution to set aside the Supreme Court's decision to strike down parts of Quebec's Charter of the French Language ( which toughened the requirements for French predominance on commercial signs ) played into this ; while an entirely constitutional move, it became a flashpoint for many federalist Canadians, particularly in English Canada.

Lantos then joined the anti-Nazi resistance movement and was able to move around freely due to his having blond hair and blue eyes, which to the Nazis were physical signs of Aryanism.

Dogs might exhibit signs of stiffness or soreness after rising from rest, reluctance to exercise, bunny-hopping or other abnormal gait ( legs move more together when running rather than swinging alternately ), lameness, pain, reluctance to stand on rear legs, jump up, or climb stairs, subluxation or dislocation of the hip joint, or wasting away of the muscle mass in the hip area.

However, during the Shockwave storyline, created by Ryan Carrassi in 1998, it received its best ratings and showed signs that it might move off the bottom.

In his notes on Woomanship, Potter expresses surprise that " twelve times as many workers volunteered to send in reports on Woomanship as on any other subject " I mixed gamesmanship, for a man " a good working knowledge of the Chivalry Gambit is essential "; a woman's counter to " the least signs of trying the ' I have long adored you from afar ' move ", is to " treat it immediately as a formal proposal of marriage which you shyly accept.

* 2 August 2002-Juninho signs for Middlesbrough for the third time in a £ 6million move from Atlético Madrid.

Hidden from view by a dust storm, he was able to get within of the village and saw signs that the tribe was preparing to move on.

Lily faces domestic struggles when her mother begins to show signs of Alzheimer's Disease and her brother Aaron ( Patrick Dempsey ), who is schizophrenic, wants to move in with his girlfriend.

The ninth through sixteenth levels are identical to the first through eighth, except the cars all move faster and the dollar signs ( see next paragraph ) don't last as long.

In 1998, the " Bliss " was removed from the official NYC subway map and this station's signs, but restored in 2004 as part of a historical move.

In 1998, the name " Rawson " was removed from the station signs and subway maps, but restored in 2004 as part of a historical move.

More recently, many common law systems have showed signs of a possible move towards the ' absence of basis ' approach ( see for example the law of North Dakota in the section on the United States below ).