12th degree of Libra
Sabian symbol
“Miners are surfacing from a deep coal mine.”
The need to carry on at ever-deeper levels the quest for knowledge which keeps burning the fires of the collective mind of a society.
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Sepharial
“A fait woman looking at her face in a hand glass.”
It denotes a person of a frivolous and lighthearted disposition, improvident and foolish, neither regarding the future nor profiting by the past: laughing in the face of fate, and closing the eyes to experience: ‘self-centered and worldly. The native will come by much misfortune, but will flaunt his colors to the end of a foolish career. It is a degree of FOOLISHNESS.
Sepharial, La Volasfera (1898) · public domain
Charubel
“A man with a bow in his hand; but he has no arrow.”
A person of splendid parts and excellent abilities, but who is ever unfortunate in being deprived of the means of effecting his purpose. When an opportunity presents itself, he finds himself unable to turn it to advantage.
Charubel, The Degrees of the Zodiac Symbolised (1898) · public domain
Kozminsky
“A man falling from an insecure and broken bridge into a dark pit below.”
Denotes one who will suffer chiefly from a lack of confidence in self and ability to realize his own powers and limitations. Evils may assail his health or financial position, and place him in positions of danger from which he can only escape by the power of a resisting will. It is a symbol of Timidity.
Isidore Kozminsky, Zodiacal Symbology (1917) · public domain
Janduz
“Two women are standing on both edges of the ravine which separates them. One of them is looking behind her, and the other one gazes at herself in a mirror. None of them is aware that they may fall in the precipice.”
Carefree, self-centred, and frivolous character. One is unable to learn the lessons from the past. Dangers of failure and reversal of fortune stem from neglect and superficiality. However,…
Janduz, Les 360 degres du zodiaque (1938) · excerpt
Henson
Electricians; a connection with poisons, sometimes in working with chemicals; a powerful degree; denotes a clear thinker who knows that success is based more on hard work than…
Henson, degree notes · excerpt
Matthew
““REASON””
A powerful degree. Denotes a clear thinker who knows that success consists of nine-tenths hard work and one tenth good luck.
Matthew, degree keywords · excerpt
Leinbach
This degree produces a rather nervous unsteady tone. There is in this degree some strength for the endurance of hard work but not steady. He will put forth…
Esther Leinbach, Degrees of the Zodiac (1973) · excerpt
Weber
Earthy Taurus beautifies Sagittarius/Libra - pleasant appearance, vanity, conceit, love of leisure and desire for a world run in accordance to these traits. Often noble causes but far…
Weber, degree notes · excerpt
Muir
Lack of self-confidence causes him to put too much trust in others and he becomes a dupe of artful and crafty people until his own will is roused.
Ada Muir, The Degrees of the Zodiac (1928) · public domain
Cochrane
Self-sacrificing worker. Desire to play a useful part in society. Sensitive and imaginative. (LEO-11AQU, PIS-6-VIR)
David Cochrane, degree notes · excerpt
Bardon
“Afrei”
This head is an initiator and master of the high magic of love. He teaches the magician how to produce many wonders in the mental, astral and physical…
Franz Bardon, The Practice of Magical Evocation (1956), the 360 heads · excerpt