Marc Edmund Jones assembled this degree, along with the other 359, from a 1925 sitting with the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler in Balboa Park, San Diego, drawing all the cards at random so nothing could be anticipated. His 1953 book set the images down for the first time. The interpretive language read today, however, belongs to Dane Rudhyar's 1973 An Astrological Mandala, still in copyright, and it is not quoted on this page.
Counting from Scorpio's start, this is the sixth degree, placing it in the sign's first decan. Its decan is ruled by Mars, Scorpio's own planet, reinforcing rather than complicating the sign's usual character. The term ruler here is also Mars, so the finer division agrees with the decan rather than adding a separate voice. 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 monster with two faces, like the ancient Janus. Scorpio is fixed water, intensity held under pressure rather than let out, concerned with what lies beneath a surface. Read this way, the degree is less a fortune than a location: a specific point in Scorpio's arc, with its own decan and term layered on top.