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A Green Field Surrounded by Shrubberies

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. It falls in the third decan of Aries (degrees 21 to 30), and is Aries's twenty fourth degree. Its decan is ruled by Venus rather than Mars, which colors the degree with something Aries does not supply on its own. The narrower term division belongs to Mars, a still finer layer of rulership laid across the sign and decan. An older, independent picture-set for the degrees exists too: John Thomas, the Welsh astrologer who wrote as Charubel, published his own image for every degree in 1898, decades before the Balboa Park session.

For this degree his catalogue describes a green field surrounded by shrubberies; a nice villa on the north-east side of the field. As the first fire sign, Aries favors the direct move over the considered one, a readiness to act that has not yet learned patience. Read this way, the degree is less a fortune than a location: a specific point in Aries's arc, with its own decan and term layered on top.

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