The Welsh catalogue gives this degree its most defenceless scene: a naked infant, exposed, sleeping alone in an open and dreary place, beasts and birds of prey around and above it, and yet, by some strange unseen power, the embodied picture of innocence is protected. Charubel, the pen name of John Thomas, published an image for every degree in 1898; several words of this entry were reconstructed from a damaged scan, a caveat worth keeping visible. The scene stages the oldest of providential motifs, vulnerability preserved by nothing material, the exposed child unharmed among predators.
Read against the thirteenth degree of Virgo, a sign that trusts preparation and prudence, the image is almost a rebuke, protection arriving from outside every system of care, and it presses the sign's hardest question: what remains safe when nothing has been arranged. Set beside the crowd-calming authority of the 1925 image for this degree, both pictures concern rescue from overwhelming force, differently sourced. Degree symbolism itself is ancient.
Vettius Valens gave each sign three ten degree faces in the second century, Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos preserved the unequal Egyptian bounds, and the first complete surviving set of degree pictures is Johannes Angelus's Astrolabium Planum of 1494; the 1898 book renewed the craft. This degree carries Venus in face and term alike, guardianship as grace. Where natal or progressed points fall, the tone is the strange safety of the innocent.