An older, independent picture-set for the degrees exists too: John Thomas, the Welsh astrologer who wrote as Charubel, published his own image for every degree in 1898, decades before the Balboa Park session. For this degree his catalogue describes a dove. It falls in the second decan of Scorpio (degrees 11 to 20), and is Scorpio's fourteenth degree. Its decan is ruled by Sun rather than Mars, which colors the degree with something Scorpio does not supply on its own.
The narrower term division belongs to Mercury, a still finer layer of rulership laid across the sign and decan. Every degree in this set, including this one, comes from a single 1925 sitting: Marc Edmund Jones and the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler, in Balboa Park, San Diego, drawing 360 blank cards in random order. Jones's book appeared in 1953, but it is Dane Rudhyar's 1973 reinterpretation, An Astrological Mandala, that is generally quoted today, and its copyrighted wording is withheld from this page. As the middle water sign, Scorpio does not merely feel; it investigates, and it does not let go easily. What a degree reading offers here is orientation rather than forecast, a way of naming exactly where in Scorpio's cycle a person or moment sits.