It falls in the first decan of Capricorn (degrees 1 to 10), and is Capricorn's seventh degree. Its decan is ruled by Jupiter rather than Saturn, which colors the degree with something Capricorn does not supply on its own. The narrower term division belongs to Mercury, a still finer layer of rulership laid across the sign and decan. As a cardinal earth sign, Capricorn begins by setting a standard it then expects itself to meet. 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 maze. This degree is part of the set Marc Edmund Jones recorded in 1925 with the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler, in Balboa Park, San Diego, all 360 cards drawn blind and in random order. Jones published the images in 1953. The interpretation now in wide circulation, though, is Dane Rudhyar's from 1973, not Jones's own text, and Rudhyar's wording stays under copyright and off this page. The value of a degree like this is less in prediction than in placement, a way of locating a moment precisely inside Capricorn's broader arc. 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.