Divinity Atlas

Sacred Correspondences
Articles

A White Flag, a Red Cross

Citation Formats

General Reference

APA Style

BibTeX

Learn More
A White Flag, a Red Cross

Charubel's image is heraldic: a white flag, unfurled rather than furled or at rest, marked with a red Maltese cross, the eight-pointed cross long associated with military religious orders and with medical relief alike. The flag flies; it is not merely displayed, and its unfurling suggests a signal actively being sent rather than an emblem simply on view.

White carries its own set of associations, truce, purity, or neutrality, that sit in some tension with a cross historically tied to armed orders, and the image does not resolve which meaning should dominate. Scorpio's own comfort with contradiction, force and healing, war and mercy, occupying the same symbol without apology, is well served by a banner that could announce either a ceasefire or a crusade depending entirely on who is reading it.

The wording now attached to this degree in general circulation follows Dane Rudhyar's 1973 restatement in An Astrological Mandala, building on the 1925 material Marc Edmund Jones and Elsie Wheeler produced; that copyrighted text is not reproduced here. Now within Venus's decan and Saturn's opening term (24 to 30 degrees), grace and discipline combine in a signal flown high enough to be read from a distance, whatever its intent.

Cross-Tradition Connections

Article On

Sources
Comments (0)
No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.
Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.

View At A Past Year

The atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.