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A Profile of the Head and Face of a Man

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A Profile of the Head and Face of a Man

The wording that circulates for this cycle of 360 degree symbols traces to a 1925 session in Balboa Park, San Diego, where Marc Edmund Jones worked with the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler, drawing 360 blank cards in random order while she described what came to her for each one. Jones published the results in 1953. The phrasing now most widely read is not his; it is Dane Rudhyar's, who reworked the material into his own interpretive language for An Astrological Mandala in 1973, and that 1973 text remains under copyright, so it is not reproduced here. It falls in the second decan of Leo (degrees 11 to 20), and is Leo's fifteenth degree. Its decan is ruled by Jupiter rather than the Sun, which colors the degree with something Leo does not supply on its own.

The narrower term division belongs to Saturn, 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 profile of the head and face of a man. His face is long, but inclined to the oval; the eyes are large, but somewhat expression-less; he is clean-shaven, save a very carefully cultivated moustache. Leo is fixed fire, a sign that wants its warmth to be visible and its identity to be recognized rather than merely felt. Taken together, the position, the decan, and the old image give this degree a specific character within Leo rather than a generic one.

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