A Naked Man, Having a Serpent Coiled Around the Lower Part

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 naked man, having a serpent coiled around the lower part of the body. It falls in the second decan of Aquarius (degrees 11 to 20), and is Aquarius's seventeenth degree. Its decan is ruled by Mercury rather than Saturn, which colors the degree with something Aquarius 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 degree symbols themselves date to 1925, when Marc Edmund Jones and the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler sat in Balboa Park, San Diego, and drew all 360 blank cards in random sequence so that no degree's image could be planned in advance. Jones published his findings in 1953, yet the reading in general circulation since is Dane Rudhyar's 1973 restatement, not Jones's own words, and Rudhyar's text is still in copyright and is not quoted on this page. Aquarius is fixed air, a stubborn commitment to an idea or a group rather than to a single feeling. The point of tracking a degree this closely is not to predict an event but to place it exactly within Aquarius's span.