A Country Site at the Foot of a Mountain, with Many Small

It falls in the second decan of Aries (degrees 11 to 20), and is Aries's nineteenth degree. Its decan is ruled by Sun rather than Mars, which colors the degree with something Aries 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. As the first fire sign, Aries favors the direct move over the considered one, a readiness to act that has not yet learned patience. This degree also carries an image from a different and earlier tradition. Charubel, writing in 1898, described a country site at the foot of a mountain, with many small dwellings thereon. There are coal-pits in the locality.

A poor woman is nursing a baby; she is weeping, having just been made a widow. 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. The value of a degree like this is less in prediction than in placement, a way of locating a moment precisely inside Aries's broader arc.