Marc Edmund Jones assembled this degree, along with the other 359, from a 1925 sitting with the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler in Balboa Park, San Diego, drawing all the cards at random so nothing could be anticipated. His 1953 book set the images down for the first time. The interpretive language read today, however, belongs to Dane Rudhyar's 1973 An Astrological Mandala, still in copyright, and it is not quoted on this page.
Counting from Aquarius's start, this is the twenty first degree, placing it in the sign's third decan. Its decan is ruled by Moon rather than Saturn, which colors the degree with something Aquarius does not supply on its own. The narrower term division belongs to Mars, a still finer layer of rulership laid across the sign and decan.
A separate nineteenth century source gives this degree its own picture. Charubel's 1898 sequence, unconnected to the later Sabian material, records a man in monkish dress, with long hair and flowing beard. Aquarius is fixed air, a stubborn commitment to an idea or a group rather than to a single feeling. Taken together, the position, the decan, and the old image give this degree a specific character within Aquarius rather than a generic one.