18th degree of Gemini
Sabian symbol
“Two chinese men converse in their native tongue in an american city.”
The need for the mind to retain its independence from its physical environment in order to concentrate on its special problems.
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Sepharial
“A flying arrow.”
It indicates a person of lofty aspirations, keen mental powers, penetration and executive ability, One who will cut out his own line in life and excite attention, but who may, by his destiny, fail in achieving the result aimed at. It is a degree of EXECUTION.
Sepharial, La Volasfera (1898) · public domain
Charubel
“The number 6 rules this degree.”
Denotes a purely mercurial person; an expert in all mercurial employments.
Charubel, The Degrees of the Zodiac Symbolised (1898) · public domain
Kozminsky
“An eagle wounded in flight swoops to a mountain ridge, where a brood of young ones rise”
from the drops of blood. Denotes one of great bravery who, feeling himself unconquerable, becomes a mark for the attacks of his enemies, who, thinking to smite him at the point of his weakness, raise about themselves the power which arises from his pain. It is a symbol of Invulnerability.
Isidore Kozminsky, Zodiacal Symbology (1917) · public domain
Janduz
“A fox runs as fast as it can, apparently to compete with an arrow shot by an invisible hand.”
Swift, shrewd, and inventive character driven by high ideals and endowed with strong persuasion powers. A host of good ideas continuously jostle together in the mind and must…
Janduz, Les 360 degres du zodiaque (1938) · excerpt
Henson
Good imagination; cordial but caustic; energetic, enthusiastic, and intellectual; a dual personality men may sometimes have feminine traits; homicidal tendency; Bright’s disease (kidneys); second rib.
Henson, degree notes · excerpt
Matthew
““DUALITY””
A critical degree. Energetic, enthusiastic and intellectual. A dual personality, men may sometimes have feminine traits. Good imagination. Personally cordial, but caustic in his views.
Matthew, degree keywords · excerpt
Leinbach
This is a degree of planning. The native needs another individual to understand and put to work what he conceives. There is much enthusiasm here and perhaps some…
Esther Leinbach, Degrees of the Zodiac (1973) · excerpt
Weber
Another dualistic Geminian degree - in this instance, Scorpio is hiding something, or perhaps trying to uncover its own sexual nature, or some other secret to life. Can…
Weber, degree notes · excerpt
Muir
One who loses himself in a cause, the greatness of which depends upon his circumstances and environment. His bravery disarms his enemies.
Ada Muir, The Degrees of the Zodiac (1928) · public domain
Cochrane
Ingratiating, well-mannered, and conservative. May be fussy and critical, particularly at home or with close friends. (LIB-5-SAG, VIR-4-SCO)
David Cochrane, degree notes · excerpt
Bardon
“Amagestol”
initiates the magician into the secrets of love, into its legality, its causes and effects, no matter whether lowest animal love or highest cosmic love is in question.…
Franz Bardon, The Practice of Magical Evocation (1956), the 360 heads · excerpt