Counting from Scorpio's start, this is the thirteenth degree, placing it in the sign's second decan. Its decan is ruled by Sun rather than Mars, which colors the degree with something Scorpio 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. Scorpio is fixed water, intensity held under pressure rather than let out, concerned with what lies beneath a surface. A picture for this degree also survives from 1898, from Charubel's own independent series, published a generation before Jones's. He recorded a fox sitting on his haunches. This degree's origin lies in 1925, in Balboa Park, San Diego, where Marc Edmund Jones and the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler drew all 360 cards blind, one at a time, in no planned order. Jones did not publish the results until 1953.
The interpretation most widely read since then is Dane Rudhyar's 1973 rewrite, An Astrological Mandala, and because that text is still under copyright it is not quoted here. The value of a degree like this is less in prediction than in placement, a way of locating a moment precisely inside Scorpio's broader arc. Element and quality carry through every degree of Scorpio: it is a fixed water sign, and this degree inherits that basic temperament even as the decan and term add their own note.