The Planet Venus

It falls in the first decan of Capricorn (degrees 1 to 10), and is Capricorn's fourth degree. 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. Capricorn opens the earth triplicity's hardest test, initiating through structure, discipline, and long accountability. Before Jones and Wheeler ever met, the Welsh astrologer Charubel had already published a complete set of 360 degree images in 1898.

For this degree, his book pictures the planet Venus. This is one of the 360 degree images that Marc Edmund Jones obtained in 1925 by drawing blank cards, shuffled at random, while the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler described her impressions in Balboa Park, San Diego. Jones's own account followed in 1953, but the version generally read today is Dane Rudhyar's, published in 1973 as An Astrological Mandala; that later text is under copyright until 2069 and is withheld from this page rather than quoted. None of this is meant as prophecy; it is a way of describing where, precisely, this degree sits inside Capricorn's larger pattern.