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 Cancer's start, this is the twenty first degree, placing it in the sign's third decan. Its decan is ruled by Moon, Cancer's own planet, reinforcing rather than complicating the sign's usual character. The narrower term division belongs to Jupiter, a still finer layer of rulership laid across the sign and decan. A picture for this degree also survives from 1898, from Charubel's own independent series, published a generation before Jones's. He recorded a king, an emperor, or commander on horseback.
As a cardinal water sign, Cancer initiates through feeling and memory rather than argument or force. Taken together, the position, the decan, and the old image give this degree a specific character within Cancer rather than a generic one. Element and quality carry through every degree of Cancer: it is a cardinal water sign, and this degree inherits that basic temperament even as the decan and term add their own note.