The wording that circulates for this cycle of 360 degree symbols traces to a 1925 session in Balboa Park, San Diego, where Marc Edmund Jones worked with the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler, drawing 360 blank cards in random order while she described what came to her for each one. Jones published the results in 1953. The phrasing now most widely read is not his; it is Dane Rudhyar's, who reworked the material into his own interpretive language for An Astrological Mandala in 1973, and that 1973 text remains under copyright, so it is not reproduced here. It falls in the second decan of Gemini (degrees 11 to 20), and is Gemini's fifteenth degree. Its decan is ruled by Mars rather than Mercury, which colors the degree with something Gemini does not supply on its own.
The narrower term division belongs to Venus, a still finer layer of rulership laid across the sign and decan. This degree also carries an image from a different and earlier tradition. Charubel, writing in 1898, described a rapid inland stream which might be called a narrow river. Gemini is the zodiac's first air sign, occupied with contact, exchange, and the quick traffic of information between people. Taken together, the position, the decan, and the old image give this degree a specific character within Gemini rather than a generic one.