Two heads look outward, past the shadows immediately around them, toward something farther off that the shadows themselves would otherwise obscure, a shared act of looking rather than a solitary one. This closes the Sun's first decan, Venus continuing to hold the term through degree seventeen. Jones took the scene from Wheeler in the 1925 Balboa Park session; the reading here is Rudhyar's 1973 language, and it does careful philosophical work, insisting that the understanding it describes does not require escaping the world of opposites, only seeing past its immediate shadow while still standing inside it.
The shadow of the image, so to speak, is a duality never actually left behind, only seen around, which is a more modest and more honest claim than a promise of full transcendence would be. Virgo closes its first decan on a notably abstract, philosophical note for a sign more often associated with concrete, practical discernment, two heads managing to see past shadow without pretending the shadow itself has disappeared. The image gives no further detail about what the two heads are actually looking at, only that it lies beyond the shadow, leaving the object of their shared attention as open as the understanding it is said to produce.