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A Triangle, Whose Base-Line Is Three-Fourths the Length of One

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A Triangle, Whose Base-Line Is Three-Fourths the Length of One

A picture for this degree also survives from 1898, from Charubel's own independent series, published a generation before Jones's. He recorded a triangle, whose base-line is three-fourths the length of one of its sides, having a small circular figure at the extremity of each of the angles. It falls in the second decan of Gemini (degrees 11 to 20), and is Gemini's eleventh degree. Its decan is ruled by Mars rather than Mercury, which colors the degree with something Gemini does not supply on its own.

The narrower term division belongs to Jupiter, a still finer layer of rulership laid across the sign and decan. The 1925 origin of this degree is well documented: Marc Edmund Jones, working with the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler in Balboa Park, San Diego, drew all 360 blank cards at random and recorded her impressions as they came. Jones published the set in 1953.

The wording generally read today, however, belongs to Dane Rudhyar, who reworked it in 1973 for An Astrological Mandala, a book still under copyright and not quoted here. Gemini is the zodiac's first air sign, occupied with contact, exchange, and the quick traffic of information between people. The point of tracking a degree this closely is not to predict an event but to place it exactly within Gemini's span.

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