A conservative woman, old-fashioned in her dress and manner, comes face to face with a young woman got up in the loose, countercultural style Rudhyar's 1973 wording names with a slang term of his own decade, two generations and two entire visions of propriety meeting without either one yielding ground. The vocabulary itself is a useful marker: that particular slang did not exist as a word in 1925, when Wheeler gave Jones the raw picture in Balboa Park, so whatever she actually saw, the specific cultural label attached to it belongs entirely to Rudhyar's own later moment, not to the original session.
Saturn's decan closes here at its last degree before Jupiter takes the face as well as the term already held since the sign began; the reading on this page is Rudhyar's interpretation, and it refuses to side outright with either woman in the confrontation, asking both, in effect, to loosen their grip on the costume they have each chosen. The shadow is judgment traded in both directions, each woman reading the other as a failure of standards rather than as a different, equally considered choice. Leo's flair for self-presentation is on display in both figures at once, fixed decade against fixed decade, each certain her own fashion is the true one.