per vacua signa cursus

Latin · noun
variant cursus per vacua signa
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-12
Meanings
Literal translation
course through empty signs
Categories
lunar quality
Related Lemmata 3 ›

1. running empty

1.a running empty lunar quality

Per vacua enim signa cursus suos dirigens primam aetatem facit miseris ac variis infortuniorum casibus implicari.

‘A moon running empty involves the early years in wretched misfortunes’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 4.8.2

Genre: astrological compendium Provenance: Sicily Date: ca. 334 CE

Firmicus Maternus. 1897. Ivlii Firmici Materni Matheseos Libri VIII, ed. W. Kroll, F. Skutsch. Stuttgart: B. G. Teubner. 1.208

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). per vacua signa cursus (Lemma #1158). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1158/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). per vacua signa cursus (Lemma #1158). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1158/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). per vacua signa cursus (Lemma #1158). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1158/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) per vacua signa cursus (Lemma #1158), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1158/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1158,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {per vacua signa cursus ({Lemma} #1158)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1158/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1158/},
}