2nd degree of Scorpio
Sabian symbol
“A delicate bottle of perfume lies broken, releasing its fragrance.”
The accidental nature of opportunities that impel one to break away from a past, the remembrance of which is still poignant and cherished.
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Sepharial
“A great headland over which the Sun is rising.”
It Indicates one who is great and magnificent, imbued with feelings of magnanimity and reposeful strength. His opinions are lofty and elevated, his views wide as the seas, and his stability of purpose in all respects equal to his strength of mind. He looks forward to the future with confidence, and his hopes will not be frustrated. It is a degree of MAGNITUDE.
Sepharial, La Volasfera (1898) · public domain
Charubel
“A human skull.”
Mystical. fond of the occult; great depth of penetration; liable to melancholy.
Charubel, The Degrees of the Zodiac Symbolised (1898) · public domain
Kozminsky
“Two men deeply engrossed in a game of chess.”
Denotes one of excellent and discriminative brain who is capable of firm and continued concentration. The mind is intensely mercurial and penetrative, mastering difficult problems with comparative ease. It is a symbol of Comprehension.
Isidore Kozminsky, Zodiacal Symbology (1917) · public domain
Janduz
“On top of a promontory, a man riding an elephant contemplates the sun rising over the sea.”
Generous, ambitious, and tolerant character endowed with intelligence and self-confidence. Long travels, international politics, and a strong taste for exoticism bring about success and prosperity. This degree sometimes…
Janduz, Les 360 degres du zodiaque (1938) · excerpt
Henson
Musical area; executive, enterprising, magnanimous and ambitious; traffic; a good mixer; sometimes interest in mystical things; urethral meatus.
Henson, degree notes · excerpt
Matthew
““MAGNANIMOUS””
Executive, enterprising and ambitious. A good ‘mixer,’ sometimes interested in mystical things.
Matthew, degree keywords · excerpt
Leinbach
There is still a Libra influence involved heavily with this degree, predominately contributing the necessity to establish relationships. Failure to do this invariably results in a more impassioned…
Esther Leinbach, Degrees of the Zodiac (1973) · excerpt
Weber
Analytical and humanitarian due to Virgo and Aquarius - helpful to Scorpio, but weak and frail. Helped by its magnaminity and fore-thought; practical, useful, and mentally determined. Has…
Weber, degree notes · excerpt
Muir
Containing with himself the power to transmute the baseness within himself into nobler qualities. A keen, penetrating and occult mentality.
Ada Muir, The Degrees of the Zodiac (1928) · public domain
Cochrane
Intense, quiet, charismatic, magnetic. Healing power. Instinctively understands how electrical and mechanical things work but poor at abstract subjects such as mathematics. (ARI-6-SCO, SCO-1GEM)
David Cochrane, degree notes · excerpt
Bardon
“Schaluah”
is regarded as the original initiator into electricity. He has made man acquainted with electricity and has, during the course of time, caused certain individuals to make all…
Franz Bardon, The Practice of Magical Evocation (1956), the 360 heads · excerpt