The Decan Atlas
Sagittarius III
20°–30° Sagittarius · The Sun walks this face December 12 – December 21
The card of this face
Ten of Wands
In Book T — the Golden Dawn’s tarot manuscript of 1888 — this card is titled The Lord of Oppression.
Read the full meaning of Ten 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
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: Reiyel holds the first five, Omael the last.
The image of the face
A man the colour of gold, or an idle man toying with a staff.
The books read wilfulness here — obstinacy in one's own way, and busy evil in contentions.
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 far fire overreaches. Under this face Saturn burdens the arrow with every duty it volunteered for — oppression lifts the moment the load is named and shared.
The sky never stops moving. Draw your card while this face is still lit.
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