Charubel's image pairs a traditional personification with an unexpected second object: Death, scythe in one hand as convention dictates, but a bag of money in the other, an emblem of mortality holding wealth alongside its usual instrument. The combination refuses the simplest reading of either object alone; this is not death as pure ending, nor money as pure gain, but the two held together in the same figure.
That pairing suggests inheritance, cost, or the way endings so often carry a financial reckoning alongside whatever else they mean, debts settled, estates divided, value changing hands at exactly the moment something else concludes. Sagittarius's concern with larger meaning meets, here, one of its more sobering instances: even the sign most associated with expansive optimism must eventually reckon with an ending that also, unavoidably, has a price attached.
The phrasing now attached to this degree in general circulation follows Dane Rudhyar's 1973 reworking of the 1925 material Jones and Wheeler produced together; that copyrighted text is not reproduced here. Now within the Moon's decan and Venus's opening term (13 to 17 degrees), feeling and grace meet an image that declines to let either ending or value stand alone.