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Aries 23: Charubel and the Older Systems Behind This Degree

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Aries 23: Charubel and the Older Systems Behind This Degree

The picture already quoted for this degree is John Thomas's, the Welsh nonconformist minister, 1826 to 1908, who wrote as Charubel after turning to astrology and clairvoyance. His 1898 book gave nearly every degree its own image, well before the 1925 Balboa Park session between Marc Edmund Jones and the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler that produced the material generally read today through Dane Rudhyar's 1973 restatement. Charubel's catalogue was itself a late arrival in an older habit of subdividing the degrees.

Vettius Valens, writing in Greek around 175, split each sign into three planetary faces, leaving Venus to rule this degree's decan, the third of Aries, and Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos separately lists unequal bounds among five planets, giving this degree to Mars's term, a table built purely of rulers with no picture attached anywhere. The first complete pictorial set for all 360 degrees survives whole in 1494, in Johannes Angelus's Latin Astrolabium Planum, safely public domain but not translatable into English without the translation acquiring its own separate rights. Charubel achieved independently, in English, what Angelus had done in Latin nearly four centuries earlier. In practice, a degree defined this precisely is mostly used to time events through progressions or to flag charts sharing the same close point in synastry.

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