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I Seem to Be Above the Earth

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I Seem to Be Above the Earth

The image tradition for this degree goes back to 1925, to a session Marc Edmund Jones held with the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler in Balboa Park, San Diego, drawing all 360 cards blind and at random. Jones's book followed in 1953, though the phrasing most commonly cited now is Dane Rudhyar's, from his 1973 An Astrological Mandala, a text this page leaves unquoted because it is still under copyright.

Counting from Taurus's start, this is the twenty fourth degree, placing it in the sign's third decan. Its decan is ruled by Saturn rather than Venus, which colors the degree with something Taurus does not supply on its own. The term ruler here is also Saturn, so the finer division agrees with the decan rather than adding a separate voice.

Charubel, the pen name of the Welsh astrologer John Thomas, catalogued an image for every degree in 1898. His entry for this one describes above the earth; I see the sun ascending above the horizon, while it is yet dark on that hemisphere towards which it is approaching. As a fixed earth sign, Taurus values what endures over what merely begins, and prizes steadiness above speed. Read this way, the degree is less a fortune than a location: a specific point in Taurus's arc, with its own decan and term layered on top.

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