The Decan Atlas
Aries III
20°–30° Aries · The Sun walks this face April 10 – April 20
The Moon stands in this face right now.
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The card of this face
Four of Wands
In Book T — the Golden Dawn’s tarot manuscript of 1888 — this card is titled The Lord of Perfected Work.
Read the full meaning of Four of WandsWho rules here
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
Mars
Aries
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: Nanael holds the first five, Nithael the last.
The image of the face
A pale, restless man with reddish hair, clothed in red, a golden bracelet on his arm and a wooden staff in his hand — wrathful because the good he intends is still out of reach.
The tradition grants this face wit and gentleness beneath its agitation — joy, beauty, and the ache of unfinished work.
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 fire of Aries is the impatience of nearly-done. Under this face the work is carried to completion, and celebration is earned rather than promised.
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