23rd degree of Aquarius
Sabian symbol
“A big bear sitting down and waving all its paws.”
The self-discipline which results from an intelligent development of individual faculties under proper training.
Sepharial
“A beaver at work upon a tree overhanging a gorge.”
This is the index of one to whom work will be a matter of daily and continual pleasure, and whose efforts will be sustained with diligence and fidelity. He will show much executive ability, exceptional constructive faculty, and extreme powers of endurance, so that his pathway to success is sure. There is, however, the danger that, at the supreme moment when the fruit of his labor falls due, it may be swallowed up and lost to him forever. Except for this his position is beyond all power of assault or harm, for habits of industry and strenuous energy are sure of recognition. He may become a well-known worker or dealer in timber and the building trade. It is a degree of INDUSTRY.
Sepharial, La Volasfera (1898) · public domain
Charubel
“Three men in a boat, two on one side, one on the other.”
Denotes one who will meet with much rivalry and opposition in whatever he may engage in.
Charubel, The Degrees of the Zodiac Symbolised (1898) · public domain
Kozminsky
“A musician playing a curious instrument of the organ type. In the foreground a large St.”
Andrew’s cross, one limb of a dark, cloudy substance, the other white. Denotes one over whose early life a shadow hangs, of original mind, unorthodox and artistic. He is strangely moved by beauty and grace, blending loveliness of form with the seductive invisibility of sweet sounds. Living in the midst of high vibrations, the native is in danger of being drawn into the vortex of oppositions. Then the evil crosses the good and the devil wrestles with the man. It is a symbol of Crossing.
Isidore Kozminsky, Zodiacal Symbology (1917) · public domain
Henson
Sorrow with happiness; humanity; medical fields; pioneering spirit; unconventional and detached; capable of such concentration then he forgets everything else; homicidal tendency; healing (doctors, actors, comics); astrological area…
Henson, degree notes · excerpt
Matthew
““ORIGINALITY””
A critical degree. Original thinker and a tireless worker. Pioneering spirit, unconventional and detached. Capable of such concentration that he forgets everything else.
Matthew, degree keywords · excerpt
Leinbach
This degree is associated with violence. However the energy stored here may quite as easily be used constructively in a well-oriented chart. There is excess of energy, sometimes…
Esther Leinbach, Degrees of the Zodiac (1973) · excerpt
Weber
Bright, active, practical Virgo influence combines with Aquarius - capable, caring, tireless, discriminating, determined degree with just the right balance of air and earth - well-liked, easy to…
Weber, degree notes · excerpt
Muir
Unorthodox and a believer in platonic friendship until the actions of those he has trusted force him into seclusion.
Ada Muir, The Degrees of the Zodiac (1928) · public domain
Cochrane
Humanistic, active, progressive. Capable of original, inspired thoughts, and actions. Mature, broad understanding. Successful in business, organizational, literary, or scientific fields. (SAG-11-LIB, AQU-1-SAG)
David Cochrane, degree notes · excerpt
Bardon
“Chimirgu”
initiates the magician who is in contact with him into the mysteries of Creation in respect of all planes and spheres. By this intelligence the magician learns to…
Franz Bardon, The Practice of Magical Evocation (1956), the 360 heads · excerpt