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Aries 6

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The wording of the Sabian symbol for this degree is not reproduced here. The phrasing in general circulation is Dane Rudhyar's, from An Astrological Mandala (1973), and stays in copyright until 2069. The atlas has withheld its own reading of the degree along with it, because that reading followed the copyrighted image closely enough to stand in for it. What remains is the degree itself, its sign, its decan and its term, which are facts about the zodiac and belong to nobody.

Facts
Correspondences
Decan Ruler
Mars 2
Chaldean/Hellenistic decan-face order.
Term Ruler
Jupiter (Aries 1-6) 1
Structure
Decan
First Decan of Aries 2
The 1 to 10 degree arc of Aries. This decan is also called the Axe.
Reading Keys
Term
Jupiter's term (roughly the 1st-6th degree of Aries) 1
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I See Green Everywhere

Marc Edmund Jones assembled this degree, along with the other 359, from a 1925 sitting with the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler in Balboa Park, San Diego, drawing all the cards at random so nothing could be anticipated. His 1953 book set the images down for the first time. The interpretive language read today, however, belongs to Dane Rudhyar's 1973 An Astrological Mandala, still in copyright, and it is not quoted on this page.

Counting from Aries's start, this is the sixth degree, placing it in the sign's first decan. Its decan is ruled by Mars, Aries's own planet, reinforcing rather than complicating the sign's usual character. The narrower term division belongs to Jupiter, a still finer layer of rulership laid across the sign and decan. Charubel, the pen name of the Welsh astrologer John Thomas, catalogued an image for every degree in 1898. His entry for this one describes green everywhere; every object is a dull green. At the same time everything is on the move. Aries opens the zodiac with unmediated initiative, action taken before it has been talked over or shaped by circumstance. Read this way, the degree is less a fortune than a location: a specific point in Aries's arc, with its own decan and term layered on top.

Aries 6: Charubel's Image for This Degree

This point of the zodiac carries an older picture than the one generally quoted. John Thomas, the Welsh minister who wrote as Charubel, published a complete run of degree images in 1898, well before Marc Edmund Jones sat with the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler in Balboa Park in 1925. For this degree Charubel described everything as green, every object a dull, uniform green, and everything in motion at once, a picture of restless growth rather than a fixed scene, which sits comfortably with Aries as a sign defined by movement rather than by settled form.

Charubel worked entirely apart from the older, planet based systems still attached to this degree as facts: Vettius Valens, writing around 175, gave it Mars as the ruler of its ten degree face, and Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos gives it Jupiter as the ruler of its narrower bound, neither writer picturing anything, only assigning rulership. The first complete set of individual degree pictures survives whole in 1494, in Johannes Angelus's Astrolabium Planum, a Latin work safely out of copyright, though modern English translations of it are not. Charubel's English set came next and independently, and the Sabian material that followed him in 1925, now read through Dane Rudhyar's 1973 recasting, is a third, later and separate tradition again. In practice, a degree this precisely defined is used mainly to time events through progressions or to note two charts sharing the same exact point, a modern layer over the antique decan and bound system.

Cross-Tradition Connections

Contained In

Aries, Zodiac Signs
Source A History of Western AstrologyNicholas Campion
Source Anthology (Anthologiarum Libri Novem)Vettius Valens
Sources
1. Tetrabiblos
Claudius Ptolemy, W. Foulsham, 1900Aries 6, Egyptian termsView the Source
2. Anthology (Anthologiarum Libri Novem)
Vettius Valens, B.G. Teubner, 175Aries 6, Chaldean decan orderView the Source
The Degrees of the Zodiac Symbolised
Charubel (John Thomas), 1826-1908, Nichols and Co., London, 1898the degree image for this degree, from the 1898 seriesView the Source
A History of Western Astrology
Nicholas Campion, Continuum, 2009View the Source
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