Charubel's image for this degree is a puzzle worth unpacking slowly: a square patch of ground about the size set apart for lawn tennis, covered with red cloth, or what resembles it. Three features carry the meaning. The ground is squared, measured out for a game with rules, a bounded field of play rather than open country. It is covered, its actual grass or earth hidden under a laid surface. And the covering is red, the least neutral of colours, laid where white lines and green lawn are expected.
Read against the fourth degree of Virgo the picture suggests order imposed on nature so thoroughly that the natural ground no longer shows, the sign's love of preparation carried to the point where the field itself is upholstered, and the red hints at what the tidy surface conceals, vitality, appetite or anger dressed as decorum. A court is for contest conducted politely; scarlet underfoot says the contest is not as bloodless as the rules imply. The degree reads as passion formalised, feeling given a regulation playing area, which is workable as long as everyone remembers what the cloth is covering. The shadow is exactly that forgetting, procedure mistaken for the whole game. On a natal Mercury or Venus this degree tends to mark those who manage strong feeling through structure, rules, schedules and courts of every kind, and its counsel is to lift the corner of the cloth occasionally and greet the actual ground.