The storm has already ended, and everything living answers it at once, brilliant sunshine returning across a landscape written as though relief itself were the actual weather. Jupiter still rules the decan through degree twenty, and Saturn holds the term through eighteen, its last two degrees here, hardship's ruler closing out even as the image insists the hardship is over.
Wheeler produced this scene in the 1925 Balboa Park session; the reading here, naming a surge of life and love following a major crisis, is Rudhyar's 1973 language, and it is one of the more purely celebratory keynotes in the whole run of ninety degrees this survey covers, offered without qualification or shadow attached to it in his own text. That absence of a stated shadow is itself worth flagging rather than filling in in this article's own voice; not every degree needs one invented for it, and this one, on the evidence available, appears to be read by Rudhyar as close to unreservedly positive. Leo's native confidence, its instinct that difficulty is temporary and brightness the natural, restored condition of things, is given here about as direct a picture as the whole set of 360 degrees offers, storm cloud gone and the sun, Leo's own ruler, filling the whole scene without a shadow to interrupt it.