The Decan Atlas
Leo III
20°–30° Leo · The Sun walks this face August 12 – August 23
The Sun stands in this face right now.
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The card of this face
Seven of Wands
In Book T — the Golden Dawn’s tarot manuscript of 1888 — this card is titled The Lord of Valour.
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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
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: Mahasiah holds the first five, Lelahel the last.
The image of the face
A young man holding a whip, beside a figure sorrowful and ill to look upon.
The tradition gives this face love and society, and the avoidance of strife at the cost of one's right.
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 Leo defends the summit it climbed. Under this face, valour is the courage of the already-tired — outnumbered, uphill, and unbowed.
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