A Man of Stout Make, Good Proportions, Round, Rosy Features

This degree sits near the midpoint of Capricorn, past the sign's opening statement and short of its close. Its decan is ruled by Mars rather than Saturn, which colors the degree with something Capricorn 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. As a cardinal earth sign, Capricorn begins by setting a standard it then expects itself to meet.

Charubel, the pen name of the Welsh astrologer John Thomas, catalogued an image for every degree in 1898. His entry for this one describes a man of stout make, good proportions, round, rosy features, looking very merry, dancing grotesquely. This degree belongs to the symbol set assembled by Marc Edmund Jones after a 1925 sitting with the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler in Balboa Park, San Diego, where all 360 degrees were drawn blind from a shuffled deck of cards. Jones's own book followed in 1953, but the interpretation most people encounter today was written afterward, by Dane Rudhyar in his 1973 An Astrological Mandala, and Rudhyar's exact phrasing is withheld here because it remains his estate's copyrighted property. None of this is meant as prophecy; it is a way of describing where, precisely, this degree sits inside Capricorn's larger pattern.