The Decan Atlas
Capricorn II
10°–20° Capricorn · The Sun walks this face December 31 – January 10
The card of this face
Three of Pentacles
In Book T — the Golden Dawn’s tarot manuscript of 1888 — this card is titled The Lord of Material Works.
Read the full meaning of Three of PentaclesWho rules here
Ruler of the face
Mars
By the Chaldean order — the one planetary sequence that Agrippa, the Picatrix and the Golden Dawn all keep.
Ruler of the sign
Saturn
Capricorn
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: Yehuiah holds the first five, Lehahiah the last.
The image of the face
Two women and a man, all watching a bird that flies in the air.
The tradition reads the demanding of what cannot be done, and the searching of what cannot be known.
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 summit demands masonry, not luck. Under this face Mars exalted in Capricorn cuts stone to plan — material works raised by disciplined force.
The sky never stops moving. Draw your card while this face is still lit.
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