Relating to or caused by an anareta; describing a planetary influence believed to shorten life or be destructive.
Derived from the Greek 'anareta' with the adjective-forming suffix '-ic.' It appears in medieval astrological and astronomical texts when discussing harmful planetary positions.
The word 'anaretic' shows how astrology used very specific vocabulary to describe bad luck—if a planet was in an 'anaretic' position in your chart, medieval astrologers literally thought it was threatening your lifespan. It's a window into how seriously people took astrology as a predictive science.
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