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Sabian Symbols

One image for every degree of the zodiac, received in a single afternoon in 1925.

In San Diego in 1925, the astrologer Marc Edmund Jones and the clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler produced 360 images, one for each degree of the tropical zodiac, in one sitting. The results read like fragments of dream: a woman awaiting a sailboat, a large white cross upon a hill, three old masters hanging in an art gallery. They are not explanations. They are pictures you are meant to sit in front of.

In a chart the Sabian symbols work as a second language running under the placements. Your sun is not only in a sign and a house, it is on one degree, and that degree has an image. The app rounds each body's degree up, as Jones set the rule, and gives you the images for the sun, moon and rising.

How it is computed

The 1925 Sabian symbols (Wheeler and Jones), one for each degree of the tropical zodiac; a body's degree is rounded up, as Jones set it.

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The degrees, sign by sign

The degrees, sign by sign

Thirty images to a sign, one for every degree. Yours is the one your body sits on.

Aries

Aries is cardinal fire, the zodiac's first move. Beginning, courage, the will that acts before it has permission. Whatever it touches in a chart, something starts and something is risked. What Aries has to learn is that finishing is also brave.

Taurus

Taurus is fixed earth, the power of endurance and of being in a body. Patience, the senses, the wisdom of what grows slowly, value that has to be built rather than seized. It asks for roots wherever it falls, and rewards devotion. The harder art is letting go of what has finished serving.

Gemini

Gemini is mutable air, the zodiac's curiosity. Language, connection, the quick mind that would rather know two things than settle one. Whatever it touches arrives as conversation. The lesson is depth: staying with a question long enough for it to answer back.

Cancer

Cancer is cardinal water, the principle of care. Belonging, home, memory, the instinct that builds shelter around whatever is tender. What it touches moves in tides, feeling and retreating and nourishing and returning. Its lesson is that real protection makes a thing strong enough to leave the shell.

Leo

Leo is fixed fire, the principle of radiance. The creative heart, the need to express and celebrate and warm other people by burning fully. Where it falls, a life asks for wholehearted expression and generous pride. Light given freely comes back. Light demanded only dazzles.

Virgo

Virgo is mutable earth, the principle of refinement. Craft, the discerning eye that sees how a thing could be better, the humility to do that work yourself. What it touches improves by attention and by service. Its lesson is that perfection is a direction and never an address.

Libra

Libra is cardinal air, the principle of relationship. Balance, fairness, beauty, the constant weighing of one side against another. In whatever part of a chart it falls, life happens between people rather than inside one. The lesson is that your own weight belongs on the scale.

Scorpio

Scorpio is fixed water, the principle of depth. Intensity, secrecy, the courage to go where the truth is kept and to be changed by finding it. Nothing it touches stays on the surface. Its lesson is that power shared is power, and power hoarded is fear.

Sagittarius

Sagittarius is mutable fire, the principle of the search. Horizon, meaning, faith, the appetite for whatever is larger than the room you are in. What it touches widens. The lesson is bringing something back, so that the journey is not only motion.

Capricorn

Capricorn is cardinal earth, the principle of structure. Time, mastery, authority earned rather than assumed, the long patience that builds what outlasts it. Where it falls, a life asks for the climb. Its lesson is that the summit was never the point.

Aquarius

Aquarius is fixed air, the principle of the pattern. Distance, invention, the future, the mind that steps back far enough to see the system everyone else is standing inside. What it touches asks you to think for yourself and then to come back and belong anyway.

Pisces

Pisces is mutable water, the principle of dissolution and compassion. Imagination, empathy, the felt unity underneath all separate things. Edges soften wherever it falls, and the invisible becomes audible. Its lesson is to visit the ocean without forgetting the way back to shore.

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