Like the other 359 degrees in this set, this one goes back to 1925 and a session in Balboa Park, San Diego, where Marc Edmund Jones drew blank cards at random while the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler described what she perceived. Jones's book reached print in 1953. The phrasing most people know, though, is Dane Rudhyar's 1973 version, An Astrological Mandala, still protected by copyright and not reproduced on this page.
Counting from Capricorn's start, this is the twenty seventh degree, placing it in the sign's third decan. Its decan is ruled by Sun rather than Saturn, which colors the degree with something Capricorn 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.
A separate nineteenth century source gives this degree its own picture. Charubel's 1898 sequence, unconnected to the later Sabian material, records two men running a race. As a cardinal earth sign, Capricorn begins by setting a standard it then expects itself to meet. Taken together, the position, the decan, and the old image give this degree a specific character within Capricorn rather than a generic one. Element and quality carry through every degree of Capricorn: it is a cardinal earth sign, and this degree inherits that basic temperament even as the decan and term add their own note.