The Decan Atlas
Libra I
0°–10° Libra · The Sun walks this face September 23 – October 3
The Sun stands in this face right now.
See tonight’s sky
The card of this face
Two of Swords
In Book T — the Golden Dawn’s tarot manuscript of 1888 — this card is titled The Lord of Peace Restored.
Read the full meaning of Two of SwordsWho rules here
Ruler of the face
The Moon
By the Chaldean order — the one planetary sequence that Agrippa, the Picatrix and the Golden Dawn all keep.
Ruler of the sign
Venus
Libra
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: Iezalel holds the first five, Mebahel the last.
The image of the face
An angry man holding a pipe, and a man bent over a book — fury and study in one frame.
A face that justifies the weak against the strong and helps the miserable to their 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
Air returns as balance. Under this face the Moon reflects in the scales, and peace is restored — not given, but weighed out.
The sky never stops moving. Draw your card while this face is still lit.
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