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Gemini 28: Charubel's Image and the Older Systems Behind This Degree

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Gemini 28: 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 baronial mansion set in a spacious park with gigantic trees, a picture of inherited scale, grounds that took generations rather than one lifetime to grow into their present size. 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, and this degree stays in the third, ruled by the Sun rather than by Mercury, Gemini's own planet, while Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos keeps this degree under Saturn's bound as well, the two divisions still agreeing near the sign's close. Neither writer pictured anything, only assigned a ruling planet. The first complete pictorial set for all 360 degrees survives whole in 1494, in Johannes Angelus's Latin Astrolabium Planum, safely public domain but never freely translated into English.

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