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Cancer 2: Naming the Older Systems, and Charubel's Image

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Cancer 2: Naming the Older Systems, and Charubel's Image

The Chaldean face and Egyptian bounds already recorded for this degree are shorthand for two named ancient writers, not anonymous tradition. Vettius Valens, working in Greek around the year 175, divided each sign into three ten degree faces in a fixed planetary rotation, which is why Venus still governs this decan, the first of Cancer, and Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos separately preserves the Egyptian bounds table, an older, unequal division among five planets, which is why this degree still falls under Mars's term. Neither system pictured a degree, only ruled it. The first complete run of individual degree pictures for all 360 points 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 came from the Welsh minister and astrologer John Thomas, writing as Charubel in 1898, whose entry for this degree describes a man in a greenhouse with a watering can, tending some flowering shrubs, a picture of deliberate, sheltered care rather than growth left to chance. Practically, a degree defined this closely is mostly used to time events through progressions reaching it exactly, or to flag two charts sharing it in synastry.

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