In 1925, working with the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler in Balboa Park, San Diego, Marc Edmund Jones drew all 360 of these degree cards blind and recorded her impressions on the spot. His book appeared in 1953. What most readers now quote, however, is Dane Rudhyar's 1973 reinterpretation from An Astrological Mandala, a text still protected by copyright and therefore not reproduced on this page. It falls in the first decan of Capricorn (degrees 1 to 10), and is Capricorn's third degree. Its decan is ruled by Jupiter rather than Saturn, which colors the degree with something Capricorn does not supply on its own. The narrower term division belongs to Mercury, a still finer layer of rulership laid across the sign and decan.
A separate nineteenth century source gives this degree its own picture. Charubel's 1898 sequence, unconnected to the later Sabian material, records a gigantic "dragon tree" (known to botanists as Draccena Draco) belonging to the Canary Islands. Capricorn opens the earth triplicity's hardest test, initiating through structure, discipline, and long accountability. Taken together, the position, the decan, and the old image give this degree a specific character within Capricorn rather than a generic one.