A Luminous Cloud, One of the Woolpack Type, Isolated

In 1925, working with the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler in Balboa Park, San Diego, Marc Edmund Jones drew all 360 of these degree cards blind and recorded her impressions on the spot. His book appeared in 1953. What most readers now quote, however, is Dane Rudhyar's 1973 reinterpretation from An Astrological Mandala, a text still protected by copyright and therefore not reproduced on this page. Counting from Pisces's start, this is the third degree, placing it in the sign's first decan. Its decan is ruled by Saturn rather than Jupiter, which colors the degree with something Pisces does not supply on its own.

The narrower term division belongs to Venus, a still finer layer of rulership laid across the sign and decan. 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 a luminous cloud, one of the woolpack type, isolated and sailing slowly in the azure sky. The cloud suddenly opens and pours out on the earth an influence resembling a shower of pearls of variegated hue. As the final sign, Pisces gathers what came before it and lets the edges between things blur. Taken together, the position, the decan, and the old image give this degree a specific character within Pisces rather than a generic one.