A line of cars travels together toward the West Coast, a caravan rather than any single vehicle making the trip alone, each car dependent on the others for company, safety, or simply the confidence of shared direction. This closes Venus's decan, the sign's middle third, Jupiter continuing to hold the term through degree twenty-one.
Jones took the scene from Wheeler in Balboa Park in 1925, a decade into the automobile's transformation of American travel and migration; the reading here is Rudhyar's 1973 language, and new world carries an old American resonance, the West Coast standing in, as it long has in the country's own mythology, for opportunity reached by traveling rather than simply waiting for it to arrive. The shadow is a caravan that depends entirely on staying together, any one car's breakdown becoming, in practice, everyone's delay. Virgo's own practical planning and attention to logistics are well suited to exactly this kind of coordinated, collective undertaking, several separate wills managed into a single successful journey. No single driver is named or singled out either, the caravan pictured as a collective rather than as any one traveler's personal journey west. Consulted at a placement, the degree marks journeys undertaken in convoy, progress paced to the slowest engine and made safer by exactly that patience.