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 oval-shaped mirror. Counting from Aquarius's start, this is the fourteenth degree, placing it in the sign's second decan. Its decan is ruled by Mercury rather than Saturn, which colors the degree with something Aquarius does not supply on its own.
The narrower term division belongs to Jupiter, a still finer layer of rulership laid across the sign and decan. Every degree in this set, including this one, comes from a single 1925 sitting: Marc Edmund Jones and the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler, in Balboa Park, San Diego, drawing 360 blank cards in random order. Jones's book appeared in 1953, but it is Dane Rudhyar's 1973 reinterpretation, An Astrological Mandala, that is generally quoted today, and its copyrighted wording is withheld from this page. As the sign that closes the social season, Aquarius fixes its attention on the collective and on what should be true for everyone. What a degree reading offers here is orientation rather than forecast, a way of naming exactly where in Aquarius's cycle a person or moment sits. Element and quality carry through every degree of Aquarius: it is a fixed air sign, and this degree inherits that basic temperament even as the decan and term add their own note.