18th degree of Aquarius
Sabian symbol
“A man’s secret motives are being publicly unmasked.”
The difficulty for the modern individual to keep secret his private past or his deeper motives.
Sepharial
“An old woman seated on a stool with a hooded cloak wrapped closely round her.”
This is the index of one whose nature will be warped by feelings of selfishness and jealousy. He will exhibit little, if any, interest in the common lot of humanity, and will assume an attitude of melancholy, silent and envious misanthropy. Such an one cannot fail to become a source of hatred and malice to his own hurt and that of others. Wrapped around with the cloak of selfishness, he will fail to attain happiness in his own life and will be jealous of it in that of others. Hence bitterness and secret enmity will poison his soul, and in the end he will be in danger of an isolation not less painful because merited, and will be cut off iron kith and kin and left to his own imperfect and cramped resources. Let him study to preserve interest and sympathy in all that is human and so escape being abandoned of heaven and Earth. It is a degree of ISOLATION.!
Sepharial, La Volasfera (1898) · public domain
Charubel
“A man on crutches.”
An unfortunate degree. Denotes one liable to infirmities and diseases of the legs and feet.
Charubel, The Degrees of the Zodiac Symbolised (1898) · public domain
Kozminsky
“A lion running along a dreary and barren field at the end of which is a V-shaped road. On”
the one side are hunters armed, on the other a rocky entrance leads to sunlit lawns. Denotes a strong nature, capable of good or evil, who, after early struggles amidst uncongenial surroundings, begins to perceive roads leading to some definite goal. According to the portents in the horoscope will the selected way be one of tears or smiles. There will be achievement of benefit or otherwise, and the earth end will be violent or peaceful as it is willed. It is a symbol of Doubting.
Isidore Kozminsky, Zodiacal Symbology (1917) · public domain
Henson
Airmen; state of air and gasses; has something to do with air, gas or gasoline, one who may do his best work in isolation or be confined or…
Henson, degree notes · excerpt
Matthew
““ISOLATION””
One who may do his best work in isolation, or be confined or isolated from friends and relatives.
Matthew, degree keywords · excerpt
Leinbach
There is susceptibility to physical illness here. He tends to express frustration through physics avenues. There is a spontaneous element associated with the nature of Uranus. He may…
Esther Leinbach, Degrees of the Zodiac (1973) · excerpt
Weber
Mystical, sexual, manipulating quality of Scorpio is present here - in conflict with the normal Aquarian tendency to philanthropy, friendliness and fairness. Dark character, career and status conscious.…
Weber, degree notes · excerpt
Muir
Many struggles in early life but in middle life a definite work and purpose absorb his entire attention and live after him.
Ada Muir, The Degrees of the Zodiac (1928) · public domain
Cochrane
Precise, sharp, clear mind. Careful and discriminating about borrowing or lending anything. Interested in economics or politics. Sometimes overly critical of others. Confident and self-reliant. (LIB-9-LEO, VIR-8-CAN)
David Cochrane, degree notes · excerpt
Bardon
“Somi”
The magician can be initiated into many magical-alchemical secrets, especially regarding the preparation of fluid condensers for different magical practices. If Somi considers the magician mature enough he…
Franz Bardon, The Practice of Magical Evocation (1956), the 360 heads · excerpt