Word origin · etymology
Ordinary English word used as a status metaphor.
Fall supplies the downward counterpart to exaltation's elevation. Planetary specifies whose traditional dignity status is being described.
How we know · epistemology
Opposition within an exaltation scheme
The condition follows a zodiacal table rather than a body’s downward motion or the autumn season. Its name does not establish moral failure or make an adverse judgment inevitable.
William Lilly: Christian Astrology (1647), p. 105, original text ↗
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