The Decan Atlas
Leo I
0°–10° Leo · The Sun walks this face July 23 – August 2
The card of this face
Five of Wands
In Book T — the Golden Dawn’s tarot manuscript of 1888 — this card is titled The Lord of Strife.
Read the full meaning of Five of WandsWho rules here
Ruler of the face
Saturn
By the Chaldean order — the one planetary sequence that Agrippa, the Picatrix and the Golden Dawn all keep.
Ruler of the sign
The Sun
Leo
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: Vehuiah holds the first five, Jeliel the last.
The image of the face
A man riding a lion, holding what cannot be tamed between his knees.
The old books read boldness here, and violence, lust, and labours to be sustained.
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
Fire meets its own reflection. Under this face, strife is the friction of strong wills in a small room — Saturn's weight teaching the flame discipline.
The sky never stops moving. Draw your card while this face is still lit.
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