In 1925, working with the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler in Balboa Park, San Diego, Marc Edmund Jones drew all 360 of these degree cards blind and recorded her impressions on the spot. His book appeared in 1953. What most readers now quote, however, is Dane Rudhyar's 1973 reinterpretation from An Astrological Mandala, a text still protected by copyright and therefore not reproduced on this page.
Counting from Scorpio's start, this is the third degree, placing it in the sign's first decan. Its decan is ruled by Mars, Scorpio's own planet, reinforcing rather than complicating the sign's usual character. The term ruler here is also Mars, so the finer division agrees with the decan rather than adding a separate voice. One further source stands apart from the Jones and Rudhyar material entirely. Charubel's 1898 degree symbols, compiled well before Balboa Park, give this degree a triangle.
As the middle water sign, Scorpio does not merely feel; it investigates, and it does not let go easily. Taken together, the position, the decan, and the old image give this degree a specific character within Scorpio rather than a generic one. Element and quality carry through every degree of Scorpio: it is a fixed water sign, and this degree inherits that basic temperament even as the decan and term add their own note.