A harem is pictured, women's lives organized entirely around the desires of one man's household, a structure the description calls fateful even where it might also be, for at least some of the women in it, actively sought rather than merely imposed. This is the last degree of Mercury's opening term before Venus takes over at eight, and the Sun still rules the decan.
Wheeler produced the image in the 1925 Balboa Park session; the reading here, naming a subservience to the emotional nature's own vagaries and desires, fateful whether or not it was chosen, is Rudhyar's 1973 wording, and it is careful, in its own qualifying aside, not to assume the arrangement was simply forced on anyone inside it, while still calling it a subservience regardless. The shadow is named in the reading itself rather than left for this article to add: a life organized around someone else's desire, however comfortable or even chosen, remains structurally a life lived at another's discretion. Virgo values self-directed, useful order, so a household ordered instead around one man's wants sits as one of the more genuinely uncomfortable fits in the sign, worth naming plainly rather than smoothing over. Jones's own 1953 approach to a picture this frank about power and gender would likely have stayed close to practical counsel rather than to Rudhyar's more philosophical framing of fate and desire.