In 1925, working with the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler in Balboa Park, San Diego, Marc Edmund Jones drew all 360 of these degree cards blind and recorded her impressions on the spot. His book appeared in 1953. What most readers now quote, however, is Dane Rudhyar's 1973 reinterpretation from An Astrological Mandala, a text still protected by copyright and therefore not reproduced on this page. It falls in the second decan of Taurus (degrees 11 to 20), and is Taurus's eighteenth degree. Its decan is ruled by Mercury rather than Venus, which colors the degree with something Taurus 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. An older, independent picture-set for the degrees exists too: John Thomas, the Welsh astrologer who wrote as Charubel, published his own image for every degree in 1898, decades before the Balboa Park session. For this degree his catalogue describes a man beating an ass with a stick. Taurus follows Aries by slowing the pace down into something that can be held, built and kept. Read this way, the degree is less a fortune than a location: a specific point in Taurus's arc, with its own decan and term layered on top.