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Aquarius 13: The Candle on the Round Table

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Aquarius 13: The Candle on the Round Table

Charubel's image for this degree is comfort deliberately arranged: a tastefully furnished room, with a large wax candle on a round table in centre. Every element has been chosen rather than merely accumulated, since tasteful furnishing implies selection and rejection both, and the candle is large, wax rather than tallow, meaning costly and clean burning, set at the exact centre of a round table where light and attention can reach every side of the room equally. A round table has its own old symbolism of gathered equals, no head of the table to claim precedence, and a candle at its centre lights every seat the same amount.

Read at the thirteenth degree of Aquarius the picture describes the sign's domestic ideal, a circle of association lit evenly, warmly and with evident care taken over the setting, proof that Aquarius's famous concern for groups and collectives is not only abstract but can be made as intimate and as well appointed as a single well lit room. The single candle is also a caution folded into the comfort, since one flame lighting a whole gathering is a single point of failure, and a draft, a long evening, or simple inattention can let it gutter while the room grows slowly darker without anyone noticing at first. The shadow readings are elegance as substitute for warmth, taste without welcome, and a light left untended past its wick's endurance. On a natal Venus or Moon this degree tends to mark gracious hosts of real circles and communities, and its counsel is a housekeeper's: trim the wick, and keep watching the table you lit for others.

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