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 large iron cross lying on the ground. All looks dark, sad, and gloomy. There is perfect stillness in the scene; not a ruffle; not a sound of any kind. It falls in the first decan of Aries (degrees 1 to 10), and is Aries's fifth degree. Its decan is ruled by Mars, Aries'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. The original session behind this degree took place in 1925, when Marc Edmund Jones and the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler drew all 360 cards blind, in Balboa Park, San Diego, one degree at a time. Jones printed his results in 1953. The phrasing that most sites and books repeat, though, comes from Dane Rudhyar's 1973 rewrite, An Astrological Mandala, which remains under copyright and is not reproduced here. Aries opens the zodiac with unmediated initiative, action taken before it has been talked over or shaped by circumstance. The point of tracking a degree this closely is not to predict an event but to place it exactly within Aries's span.