A Vista Extending to a Great Distance

There is an independent image for this degree from 1898, decades before the Sabian set existed. Charubel's book puts it this way: a vista extending to a great distance; on either hand are majestic trees covered with a profusion of foliage. It falls in the second decan of Capricorn (degrees 11 to 20), and is Capricorn's fourteenth degree. Its decan is ruled by Mars rather than Saturn, which colors the degree with something Capricorn 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. Every degree in this set, including this one, comes from a single 1925 sitting: Marc Edmund Jones and the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler, in Balboa Park, San Diego, drawing 360 blank cards in random order. Jones's book appeared in 1953, but it is Dane Rudhyar's 1973 reinterpretation, An Astrological Mandala, that is generally quoted today, and its copyrighted wording is withheld from this page. As a cardinal earth sign, Capricorn begins by setting a standard it then expects itself to meet. What a degree reading offers here is orientation rather than forecast, a way of naming exactly where in Capricorn's cycle a person or moment sits.