cardo secundus

Latin noun

Last edited: 2024-11-11
Primary meaning favorable place
Literal translation second hinge
Variants
cardo secundus
secundus cardo
Edited by
favorable place astrological concept

places in aspect to the ascendant

Inspice etiam hoc ipsum signum, utrum benivolae stellae sit an malivolae, et quatenus dominus ipsius signi in genitura sit collocatus, vel in quo signo vel in quibus finibus, et <an> in primis an in secundis cardinibus adsistat,

‘Also look at that sign itself, whether it houses a benefic or a malefic and how the ruler of this sign is located in the chart—in which sign and which terms—and whether he stands in cardinal or favorable place’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 6.31.5

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. 2.176

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). cardo secundus (Lemma #1698). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1698/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). cardo secundus (Lemma #1698). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1698/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). cardo secundus (Lemma #1698). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1698/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) cardo secundus (Lemma #1698), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1698/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1698,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {cardo secundus ({Lemma} #1698)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1698/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1698/},
}