VEIL

The Decan Atlas

Capricorn III

20°–30° Capricorn · The Sun walks this face January 10 – January 20

Four of Pentacles

The card of this face

Four of Pentacles

In Book T — the Golden Dawn’s tarot manuscript of 1888 — this card is titled The Lord of Earthly Power.

Read the full meaning of Four of Pentacles

Who rules here

Ruler of the face

The Sun

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: Chavakiah holds the first five, Menadel the last.

The image of the face

A woman chaste in body and wise in her work, and a banker gathering his money on the table.

A face of prudent governing, and of money's tighter grip — avarice waiting inside thrift.

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 mountain's cold crown. Under this face the Sun winters in the goat's sign and power is made earthly — held, walled, and needing to learn its own weight.

The sky never stops moving. Draw your card while this face is still lit.

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