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Cancer 29: Naming the Older Systems, and Charubel's Image

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Cancer 29: Naming the Older Systems, and Charubel's Image

The decan and term already recorded for this degree trace to two named ancient writers. Vettius Valens, writing in Greek around the year 175, divided each sign into three ten degree faces under a rotating planetary sequence, leaving the Moon, Cancer's own planet, to rule this decan, and Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos separately preserves the Egyptian bounds table, keeping this degree under Saturn's term as well, the two later divisions still agreeing. Neither writer pictured anything, only ruled it. The first complete pictorial set for all 360 degrees survives whole in 1494, in Johannes Angelus's Latin Astrolabium Planum, safely public domain but never freely translated into English.

The next complete English set is Welsh minister John Thomas's, writing as Charubel in 1898, whose entry for this degree describes a man driving a bull, or an ox, a plain picture of directed labor animal rather than a wild one, put to some deliberate use. Practically, this degree is mostly used to time events through progressions or to flag two charts sharing it closely enough to matter in synastry. Practically, a degree defined this precisely is mostly used to time events through a progressed Sun, Moon or angle reaching it exactly, or to flag charts sharing the same close point in synastry, both uses considerably younger than either ancient system named above.

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