The Decan Atlas
Aquarius I
0°–10° Aquarius · The Sun walks this face January 20 – January 30
The card of this face
Five of Swords
In Book T — the Golden Dawn’s tarot manuscript of 1888 — this card is titled The Lord of Defeat.
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Ruler of the face
Venus
By the Chaldean order — the one planetary sequence that Agrippa, the Picatrix and the Golden Dawn all keep.
Ruler of the sign
Saturn
Aquarius
The two angels of the face
In the Shem ha-Mephorash — the 72-fold name drawn letter by letter from Exodus — two angels keep each face, one for each half of its ten degrees: Aniel holds the first five, Haamiah the last.
The image of the face
A prudent man, and beside him a woman spinning thread.
The books read thought and labour for gain here, with poverty walking close behind.
Image and signification after Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, book II ch. 37 (1533; English 1651), a lineage descending through the Latin Picatrix. Card titles quoted from the Golden Dawn’s Book T (1888). All sources rest in the public domain.
Under this face
Air turns communal and cold. Under this face Venus is estranged among the many, and defeat teaches what victory cannot — where the line should never have been drawn.
The sky never stops moving. Draw your card while this face is still lit.
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