The Decan Atlas
Virgo I
0°–10° Virgo · The Sun walks this face August 23 – September 2
The card of this face
Eight of Pentacles
In Book T — the Golden Dawn’s tarot manuscript of 1888 — this card is titled The Lord of Prudence.
Read the full meaning of Eight of PentaclesWho rules here
Ruler of the face
The Sun
By the Chaldean order — the one planetary sequence that Agrippa, the Picatrix and the Golden Dawn all keep.
Ruler of the sign
Mercury
Virgo
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: Achaiah holds the first five, Cahethel the last.
The image of the face
A maid, and beside her a man casting seeds into furrows.
A face of gathered wealth, ordered diet, ploughing, sowing, and peopling.
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
Earth grows exact. Under this face the Sun ripens the harvest of small disciplines — prudence, the craft repeated until it gleams.
The sky never stops moving. Draw your card while this face is still lit.
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