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Leo 25: The Orange Tree in Fruit

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Leo 25: The Orange Tree in Fruit

Charubel's image for this degree is an orange tree loaded with fruit. John Thomas, the Welsh astrologer publishing as Charubel, gave every degree of the zodiac its own symbol in his 1898 catalogue, and this is one of his most generous. An orange tree in full bearing is productivity that has become character: the tree does not strain to fruit, it fruits because of what it is, and the load is offered in the tree's own colours, gold hung on green.

For the twenty fifth degree of the Sun's sign the picture reads as maturity in Leo's arc, radiance become nourishing, the sign's warmth no longer performing but provisioning, with enough on the branch for the grower, the guest and the passing thief alike. It makes a clean pairing with the endurance imagery the 1925 set gives this degree, harvest on one side of the same idea, the desert crossing on the other. Degree symbolism itself is old.

Vettius Valens assigned each ten degrees of a sign a planetary face in the second century, Ptolemy preserved the unequal Egyptian bounds, and the first complete surviving picture set is Johannes Angelus's Astrolabium Planum of 1494; Charubel renewed the tradition four hundred years on. From this degree to the sign's end both the face and the Egyptian term belong to Mars, ardour doubled under the Sun, drive feeding the crop. Where a natal placement or progression falls here, the symbol is read as tone, and the tone is fruitfulness arrived at, abundance as evidence of rootedness.

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