A picture for this degree also survives from 1898, from Charubel's own independent series, published a generation before Jones's. He recorded a black pall suspended, and a man in a gloomy enclosure looking at it despairingly; finally he musters courage to lift the pall, and enters a dark passage, which, however, finally conducts him into the light of a glorious day. Counting from Pisces's start, this is the fifth degree, placing it in the sign's first decan. Its decan is ruled by Saturn rather than Jupiter, which colors the degree with something Pisces 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. 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. Pisces closes the zodiac as mutable water, willing to dissolve a boundary that Scorpio would have defended. The point of tracking a degree this closely is not to predict an event but to place it exactly within Pisces's span.