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Taurus 6: Charubel's Image for This Degree

A second, older picture also survives for this degree. Charubel, the pen name of the Welsh minister and astrologer John Thomas, gave nearly every one of the 360 degrees an image in 1898, decades before Marc Edmund Jones and the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler produced the material now generally read through Dane Rudhyar's 1973 restatement in 1925.

For this degree Charubel described a large elliptical figure on the ground, with a man standing upright inside it, a picture of a boundary deliberately drawn and then occupied. That picture is independent of, and older than, the technical facts already recorded here. Vettius Valens, writing in Greek around 175, divided each sign into three planetary faces, and this degree stays in the first, ruled by Venus, Taurus's own planet, while Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos separately gives it to Venus's bound as well, the two systems agreeing at this point. Neither system pictured anything, only ruled it. The first complete run of individual degree pictures, one for all 360 points of the ecliptic, survives whole in 1494, in Johannes Angelus's Latin Astrolabium Planum, safely public domain though never freely translated into English. Practically, a degree fixed this closely is mostly used to time events through progressions or to note charts sharing it closely enough to matter in synastry.

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