The Welsh catalogue gives this degree the least glamorous image in Virgo: a strong farmer's cart with a horse to match, loaded with farmyard manure. Charubel, the pen name of John Thomas, published a symbol for each of the 360 degrees in 1898, and he did not flinch from this one. Manure is fertility in its unlovely form, last season's waste hauled out to feed next season's crop, and everything in the scene is sized to the job, strong cart, matched horse, full load.
Read against the nineteenth degree of Virgo the picture is the sign's realism about renewal: nothing is wasted, the disagreeable is exactly what enriches, and the work of moving it is honest work however it smells. There is a quiet joke in the emphasis on strength, dignity granted to the humblest cargo on the farm. Beside the contested speed of the 1925 image at this degree, Charubel's cart moves at a walk and wins a different race, the year's.
Degree symbolism has long roots: Vettius Valens gave each sign three ten degree faces in the second century, Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos preserved the unequal Egyptian bounds, and the first complete surviving run of degree pictures is Johannes Angelus's Astrolabium Planum of 1494, with the 1898 catalogue renewing the practice. At this degree the Egyptian term passes to Jupiter under Venus's face, increase served by grace. Where a natal placement or progression falls here, the tone is fertile drudgery, the unglamorous haul that makes abundance possible.