A Spacious Hall, Like a Museum, the Walls of Which Are Covered

Counting from Capricorn's start, this is the twenty second degree, placing it in the sign's third decan. Its decan is ruled by Sun rather than Saturn, which colors the degree with something Capricorn does not supply on its own. The narrower term division belongs to Venus, a still finer layer of rulership laid across the sign and decan. As a cardinal earth sign, Capricorn begins by setting a standard it then expects itself to meet. There is an independent image for this degree from 1898, decades before the Sabian set existed. Charubel's book puts it this way: a spacious hall, like a museum, the walls of which are covered with symbols and hieroglyphics. This degree is part of the set Marc Edmund Jones recorded in 1925 with the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler, in Balboa Park, San Diego, all 360 cards drawn blind and in random order. Jones published the images in 1953.

The interpretation now in wide circulation, though, is Dane Rudhyar's from 1973, not Jones's own text, and Rudhyar's wording stays under copyright and off this page. None of this is meant as prophecy; it is a way of describing where, precisely, this degree sits inside Capricorn's larger pattern. Element and quality carry through every degree of Capricorn: it is a cardinal earth sign, and this degree inherits that basic temperament even as the decan and term add their own note.