The Decan Atlas
Aquarius III
20°–30° Aquarius · The Sun walks this face February 9 – February 18
The card of this face
Seven of Swords
In Book T — the Golden Dawn’s tarot manuscript of 1888 — this card is titled The Lord of Unstable Effort.
Read the full meaning of Seven of SwordsWho rules here
Ruler of the face
The Moon
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: Hahahel holds the first five, Mikael the last.
The image of the face
A dark and angry man — the storm that arrives without herald.
The tradition gives this face insolence and impudence — the norm defied to its face.
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
The last air scatters. Under this face the Moon unsteadies every plan; effort wavers not from weakness but from too many futures — choose one, and the wind steadies.
The sky never stops moving. Draw your card while this face is still lit.
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