This degree also carries an image from a different and earlier tradition. Charubel, writing in 1898, described a very small unpretentious window in the wall of a massive tower. Counting from Capricorn's start, this is the fifth degree, placing it in the sign's first decan. Its decan is ruled by Jupiter rather than Saturn, which colors the degree with something Capricorn 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. The original session behind this degree took place in 1925, when Marc Edmund Jones and the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler drew all 360 cards blind, in Balboa Park, San Diego, one degree at a time. Jones printed his results in 1953. The phrasing that most sites and books repeat, though, comes from Dane Rudhyar's 1973 rewrite, An Astrological Mandala, which remains under copyright and is not reproduced here. Capricorn opens the earth triplicity's hardest test, initiating through structure, discipline, and long accountability. The point of tracking a degree this closely is not to predict an event but to place it exactly within Capricorn's span. 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.