The Decan Atlas
Libra II
10°–20° Libra · The Sun walks this face October 3 – October 13
The card of this face
Three of Swords
In Book T — the Golden Dawn’s tarot manuscript of 1888 — this card is titled The Lord of Sorrow.
Read the full meaning of Three of SwordsWho 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
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: Hariel holds the first five, Hekamiah the last.
The image of the face
Two men wrathful and furious, and a third, well-clothed, seated calmly in a chair.
The tradition reads indignation against evil-doers, and beside it a quiet, provisioned security.
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 scales feel their load. Under this face Saturn is exalted in Libra: sorrow here is the sword of discernment — the cut that tells the true from the wished.
The sky never stops moving. Draw your card while this face is still lit.
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