Counting from Aries's start, this is the thirteenth degree, placing it in the sign's second decan. Its decan is ruled by Sun rather than Mars, which colors the degree with something Aries does not supply on its own. The narrower term division belongs to Mercury, a still finer layer of rulership laid across the sign and decan. Aries opens the zodiac with unmediated initiative, action taken before it has been talked over or shaped by circumstance. One further source stands apart from the Jones and Rudhyar material entirely.
Charubel's 1898 degree symbols, compiled well before Balboa Park, give this degree an inverted triangle immersed in a dark fog; slowly this fog clears away, and the triangle becomes a bright blue, imbedded in gold. This degree's origin lies in 1925, in Balboa Park, San Diego, where Marc Edmund Jones and the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler drew all 360 cards blind, one at a time, in no planned order. Jones did not publish the results until 1953. The interpretation most widely read since then is Dane Rudhyar's 1973 rewrite, An Astrological Mandala, and because that text is still under copyright it is not quoted here. The value of a degree like this is less in prediction than in placement, a way of locating a moment precisely inside Aries's broader arc.