Gemini 11

A picture for this degree also survives from 1898, from Charubel's own independent series, published a generation before Jones's. He recorded a triangle, whose base-line is three-fourths the length of one of its sides, having a small circular figure at the extremity of each of the angles. It falls in the second decan of Gemini (degrees 11 to 20), and is Gemini's eleventh 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 Jupiter, a still finer layer of rulership laid across the sign and decan. The 1925 origin of this degree is well documented: Marc Edmund Jones, working with the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler in Balboa Park, San Diego, drew all 360 blank cards at random and recorded her impressions as they came. Jones published the set in 1953.

The wording generally read today, however, belongs to Dane Rudhyar, who reworked it in 1973 for An Astrological Mandala, a book still under copyright and not quoted here. Gemini is the zodiac's first air sign, occupied with contact, exchange, and the quick traffic of information between people. The point of tracking a degree this closely is not to predict an event but to place it exactly within Gemini's span.

The picture already quoted here is John Thomas's, the Welsh nonconformist minister, 1826 to 1908, who wrote as Charubel after turning to astrology and clairvoyance. His 1898 book gave nearly every degree its own image, well before the 1925 Balboa Park session between Marc Edmund Jones and the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler that produced the material now generally read today through Dane Rudhyar's 1973 restatement. Charubel's project was a late entry in a much older habit.

Vettius Valens, writing in Greek around 175, split each sign into three planetary faces, and this degree opens Gemini's second decan, ruled by Mars rather than by Mercury, which colors the degree with something Gemini does not supply on its own, while Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos keeps this degree under Jupiter's bound still, the finer division not yet matching the new decan. Neither Valens nor Ptolemy attached a picture to any of it. The first complete pictorial set for all 360 degrees survives whole in 1494, in Johannes Angelus's Latin Astrolabium Planum, safely public domain but not translatable into English without the translation acquiring its own separate rights. In practice, a degree defined this precisely is mostly used to time events through progressions or synastry.