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Gemini 17: Charubel's Image and the Older Systems Behind This Degree

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Gemini 17: Charubel's Image and the Older Systems Behind This Degree

An older, independent picture also exists for this degree. Charubel, the pen name of the Welsh minister and astrologer John Thomas, gave nearly every one of the 360 degrees an image in 1898, decades before the 1925 Balboa Park session between Marc Edmund Jones and the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler that produced the material now generally read through Dane Rudhyar's 1973 restatement.

For this degree Charubel described a square containing twelve small squares, resembling the breastplate of the Jewish high priest, a picture of ordered plurality held within one bounded frame. That picture sits alongside two older technical facts already carried by this degree. Vettius Valens, writing in Greek around the year 175, divided each sign into three planetary faces, leaving Mars to rule this degree's decan, the second of Gemini, and Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos separately keeps this degree under Venus's bound, a finer division sitting underneath the decan. Neither writer pictured anything, only assigned a ruling planet. The first complete pictorial set for all 360 degrees at once survives whole in 1494, in Johannes Angelus's Latin Astrolabium Planum, safely public domain but never freely translated into English. Practically, a degree defined this closely is mostly used to time events through progressions reaching it exactly, or to flag two charts sharing it in synastry.

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