Like the other 359 degrees in this set, this one goes back to 1925 and a session in Balboa Park, San Diego, where Marc Edmund Jones drew blank cards at random while the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler described what she perceived. Jones's book reached print in 1953. The phrasing most people know, though, is Dane Rudhyar's 1973 version, An Astrological Mandala, still protected by copyright and not reproduced on this page.
Counting from Taurus's start, this is the twenty seventh 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.
A separate nineteenth century source gives this degree its own picture. Charubel's 1898 sequence, unconnected to the later Sabian material, records a dark cloud passing over a part of the earth. This cloud is charged with elemental shapes, most hideous and repulsive. Taurus follows Aries by slowing the pace down into something that can be held, built and kept. Taken together, the position, the decan, and the old image give this degree a specific character within Taurus rather than a generic one.