The Decan Atlas
Sagittarius I
0°–10° Sagittarius · The Sun walks this face November 22 – December 2
The card of this face
Eight of Wands
In Book T — the Golden Dawn’s tarot manuscript of 1888 — this card is titled The Lord of Swiftness.
Read the full meaning of Eight of WandsWho rules here
Ruler of the face
Mercury
By the Chaldean order — the one planetary sequence that Agrippa, the Picatrix and the Golden Dawn all keep.
Ruler of the sign
Jupiter
Sagittarius
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: Nith-Haiah holds the first five, Haaiah the last.
The image of the face
A man armed in a coat of mail, a naked sword in his hand.
The tradition grants this face boldness, malice, and liberty — the blade that frees and wounds alike.
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 finds its aim. Under this face Mercury lends the arrow words, and swiftness is the message that cannot be recalled once loosed.
The sky never stops moving. Draw your card while this face is still lit.
Draw a card under this face