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A Hand with a Sword

The wording that circulates for this cycle of 360 degree symbols traces to a 1925 session in Balboa Park, San Diego, where Marc Edmund Jones worked with the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler, drawing 360 blank cards in random order while she described what came to her for each one. Jones published the results in 1953. The phrasing now most widely read is not his; it is Dane Rudhyar's, who reworked the material into his own interpretive language for An Astrological Mandala in 1973, and that 1973 text remains under copyright, so it is not reproduced here. It falls in the second decan of Pisces (degrees 11 to 20), and is Pisces's fifteenth degree. Its decan is ruled by Jupiter, Pisces's own planet, reinforcing rather than complicating the sign's usual character. The term ruler here is also Jupiter, so the finer division agrees with the decan rather than adding a separate voice.

A separate nineteenth century source gives this degree its own picture. Charubel's 1898 sequence, unconnected to the later Sabian material, records a hand with a sword in it. Just rising in the ascendant, a halo of golden light envelopes it. That sword is not for indiscriminate slaughter. It is to defend the right. Pisces closes the zodiac as mutable water, willing to dissolve a boundary that Scorpio would have defended. Taken together, the position, the decan, and the old image give this degree a specific character within Pisces rather than a generic one.

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