Charubel's image is a single figure with a single instrument: a woman holding a lyre, an object of ancient association with poetry, prophecy, and formal music alike. The picture does not show her playing; the lyre is held rather than sounded, potential rather than performance.
That held stillness matters for a sign whose reach is more often intellectual and philosophical than purely artistic. The lyre carries centuries of use as an emblem of inspired speech, meaning delivered through structure and measure rather than raw declaration, and a figure simply holding one suggests readiness to speak with that kind of formal beauty rather than the instrument having already been put to use. Sagittarius seeks meaning as much as it seeks experience, and an unplayed lyre is meaning still gathering itself before it sounds.
The phrasing now attached to this degree in general circulation follows Dane Rudhyar's 1973 reworking of the 1925 material Jones and Wheeler produced; that later, copyrighted text is not reproduced here. Within Mercury's decan and Jupiter's term, articulate intellect and expansive vision combine in an image of eloquence held in reserve, ready but not yet given voice. The silence itself is part of the image's content.