RECEPTION

, in Astrology, is a dignity befalling two planets when they exchange houses: for example, when the sun arrives in Cancer, the house of the moon; and the moon, in her turn, arrives in the sun's house.— The same term is also used when two planets exchange exaltation.

RECESSION of the Equinoxes. See Precession of the Equinoxes.

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RATIONAL
RAVELIN
RAY
REAUMUR (Rene - Antoine - Ferchault, Sieur de)
RECEIVER
* RECEPTION
RECIPROCAL
RECKONING
RECLINER
RECOIL
RECORDE (Robert)