Crepuscule. Twilight. Used in Primary Directions.

Crescent. Said of the inferior planets as well as of the Moon, when less than half of the disc is illuminated by the Sun.
Critical Days. Those which coincide with the formation, by the Moon, directional or transitory, of each successive semisquare or 45 aspect, to its position at birth; or at the commencement of any illness, operation, or event under Horary
consideration. By noting the positions of the Moon at successive crises, aspects thereto will indicate the prognosis.
Favorable crises occur at the sextiles of the Moon to its radical place; but the ephemeral aspects it forms while in these
positions determine the manner in which the crises will pass, and the eventual outcome.
Critical Degrees. v. Moon, Mansions of.
Crooked Signs. Taurus, Capricorn and Pisces; and should the Ascendant or Moon be in one of these, and afflicted by the
malefics, the native, it is said, will be crooked and imperfect.
Crucial Degrees. v. Moon, Mansions of.
Culminating. v. Ascendant.
Culmination. n. to culminate. v. (a) The arrival of a planet at the Midheaven (M.C.) or the cusp of the Tenth
house, by progression, direction, or transit. (b) Sometimes used to indicate the completion of an aspect - the
arrival of a planet at the exact degree where a partile aspect becomes platic.
Culminator. A swift-moving planet which in transit reaches a critical position, by conjunction or aspect, and thereby
precipitates the externalization of a simultaneous state of displaced equilibrium caused by a lingering aspect from a slowmoving planet.
Cusp. (a) The imaginary line which separates a Sign from adjoining Signs, a House from its adjoining Houses; (b) an
indeterminate but small arc contiguous to the boundary-line between adjacent Signs and Houses, wherein there is
uncertainty as to the planet's location at a particular moment, and ambiguity as to the planet's influence in a borderline
relationship. A birth planet is stronger when it is on the cusp than when it is in the last degrees of a House. The angular
cusps are doubtless the sharpest.
Cycle, Of the Sun, 28 years; of the Moon, 19 years. An imaginary orb, or circle, in the heaven; marks the return of the
planets to their own places; each of the planets having a cycle, or revolution, of its own.

Cycles. When a faster moving planet overtakes and passes a slower moving planet, it forms a conjunction. When this
recurs a second time between the same two planets there is evident a first step in a cyclic effect, wherein the second
conjunction has occurred after a certain interval of time and space: recurrence cycles of position and relation. After a
certain number of recurrences the point of conjunction must eventually return to the approximate beginning point, where
it completes a first order recurrence cycle. If there is a small discrepancy between the points of beginning and ending, it
is found that after a certain number of first order recurrence cycles, this discrepancy will in effect be carried all the way
around the circle, and constitute a second order recurrence cycle. A recurrence cycle of position may be taken in the
Sidereal period of the planet in an hypothetical Fixed Zodiac, or in the tropical period of the planet in the moving Zodiac
of Precession. Oddly enough, the values of the tropical periods of the major planets, based on the mean rate of
Precession, are not usually given, even though we of the West use the Moving Zodiac of Precession in preference to a