For this degree Charubel's catalogue shows no scene at all, only the Greek letter Lambda. John Thomas, writing as Charubel, published an image for every degree of the zodiac in 1898, and a handful of his entries are bare letters, as if the clairvoyant record sometimes returned script instead of picture. Lambda is worth looking at as a form: two strokes leaning together from a single apex, the shape of a stride or of a roof, one point of union opening downward into two directions. Read as an emblem for the eighteenth degree of Leo it suggests a unity that must divide to move, the single will of the sign learning that every step forward is a controlled split.
In modern usage lambda names a wavelength, and the resonance, light measured, suits the Sun's sign, though Charubel himself could not have intended it. His bare letters have company in the tradition: the first complete set of degree images, Johannes Angelus's Astrolabium Planum of 1494, mixes scenes with objects and emblems, while the oldest degree structures carried no pictures at all, Vettius Valens giving each sign three planetary faces in the second century and Ptolemy preserving the unequal Egyptian bounds. This degree closes Saturn's term in Leo within Jupiter's decan, geometry under expansiveness, which the austere glyph matches. Practitioners reading a natal or progressed point here treat such an entry the way one treats a spare hexagram line, holding the form and letting the chart supply its content.