The phrasing in general circulation, including every row stored in this atlas, is Dane Rudhyar's from An Astrological Mandala (1973), verified verbatim against the book for all 360 degrees. Jones published his own text in The Sabian Symbols in Astrology (1953), but no accessible per-degree transcription of it was found. Without it, Jones's contribution cannot be distinguished from Rudhyar's rewriting for any individual degree.
What would resolve this A copy of Jones 1953, or a scholarly edition collating the two. This would also let the atlas describe the symbols in wording that is not in copyright until 2069.
Resolution Sourcing note, 2026-07-25 (W4). Cited to Rudhyar 1973, Source 22, page 19, where Rudhyar states in his own voice that the formulations can be altered, that Marc Jones himself modified them greatly several times, and that he has kept the pictures as originally recorded but rephrased obscure statements. That is a first hand attestation that the circulating wording is Rudhyar's and that Jones's own text moved over time, which is exactly what makes the 1953 wording an open question. Verified against the Internet Archive scan of the Vintage 1974 printing, the same copy used for the provenance determination in _docs/sabian-provenance.md. No gated text has been copied into any displayed field.
OpenHistory of twentieth century astrology, and archival or library access to a 1953 imprint.Dane Rudhyar, An Astrological Mandala