Marc Edmund Jones assembled this degree, along with the other 359, from a 1925 sitting with the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler in Balboa Park, San Diego, drawing all the cards at random so nothing could be anticipated. His 1953 book set the images down for the first time. The interpretive language read today, however, belongs to Dane Rudhyar's 1973 An Astrological Mandala, still in copyright, and it is not quoted on this page. It falls in the first decan of Libra (degrees 1 to 10), and is Libra's sixth degree. Its decan is ruled by Moon rather than Venus, which colors the degree with something Libra does not supply on its own. The narrower term division belongs to Saturn, a still finer layer of rulership laid across the sign and decan. Before Jones and Wheeler ever met, the Welsh astrologer Charubel had already published a complete set of 360 degree images in 1898.
For this degree, his book pictures an old-fashioned signboard suspended from the branch of a tree before an ancient looking wayside inn. As a cardinal air sign, Libra initiates through relationship, weighing one position against another before committing. Read this way, the degree is less a fortune than a location: a specific point in Libra's arc, with its own decan and term layered on top.