Aries 10

Counting from Aries's start, this is the tenth degree, placing it in the sign's first decan. Its decan is ruled by Mars, Aries's own planet, reinforcing rather than complicating the sign's usual character. The narrower term division belongs to Venus, a still finer layer of rulership laid across the sign and decan. As the first fire sign, Aries favors the direct move over the considered one, a readiness to act that has not yet learned patience. Before Jones and Wheeler ever met, the Welsh astrologer Charubel had already published a complete set of 360 degree images in 1898.

For this degree, his book pictures a large glass ball, or globe. It is capable of receiving the images of the stars in space, as well as reflecting the panorama of the earth. Marc Edmund Jones drew this degree, with the other 359, from a shuffled deck in 1925, working with the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler in Balboa Park, San Diego. His own book was not published until 1953. The version most often repeated since, though, is Dane Rudhyar's 1973 restatement in An Astrological Mandala, copyrighted material that this page does not reproduce. None of this is meant as prophecy; it is a way of describing where, precisely, this degree sits inside Aries's larger pattern.

A second, older tradition also gives this degree a picture. John Thomas, writing as Charubel, published a complete set of degree images in 1898, decades ahead of the 1925 session in Balboa Park where Marc Edmund Jones and the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler produced the material generally read today through Dane Rudhyar's 1973 restatement. Charubel's entry for this degree is a large glass ball or globe, capable of receiving the images of the stars in space as well as reflecting the panorama of the earth, an image of concentrated reflection, the whole visible world gathered into one small surface. That picture stands apart from, and earlier than, the technical facts already recorded for this degree.

Vettius Valens, writing in Greek around the year 175, divided every sign into three ten degree faces under a rotating planetary sequence, which is why Mars still rules this degree's decan, and Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos separately gives it to Venus's bound, an unequal five planet division with no image attached at all. The first complete run of individual degree pictures, all 360 at once, survives whole in 1494, in Johannes Angelus's Latin Astrolabium Planum, safely public domain though never freely translated into English. Charubel achieved the same thing independently, in English, for a modern audience. In practice, a degree specified this closely is mostly read when a progressed Sun, Moon or angle lands on it exactly, or when a second chart shares it closely enough to matter in synastry.