A separate nineteenth century source gives this degree its own picture. Charubel's 1898 sequence, unconnected to the later Sabian material, records a man inspecting horses. Counting from Capricorn's start, this is the eleventh degree, placing it in the sign's second decan. Its decan is ruled by Mars rather than Saturn, which colors the degree with something Capricorn 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. Capricorn opens the earth triplicity's hardest test, initiating through structure, discipline, and long accountability. The point of tracking a degree this closely is not to predict an event but to place it exactly within Capricorn's span. Element and quality carry through every degree of Capricorn: it is a cardinal earth sign, and this degree inherits that basic temperament even as the decan and term add their own note.