EXALTATION

, in Astrology, is a dignity which a planet acquires in certain signs of the zodiac; which dignity, it is supposed, gives the planet an extraordinary virtue, efficacy, and influence. The opposite side of the zodiac is called the Dejection of the planet.—— Thus, the 15th degree of Cancer is the Exaltation of Jupiter, according to Albumazar, because it was the ascendant of that planet at the time of the creation; that of the sun is in the 19th degree of Aries; and its dejection in Libra; that of the moon is in Taurus, &c. Ptolomy gives the reason of this in his first book De Quadripartita.