The 18th degree of Sagittarius
“A man holding a bird by the tail, and in the other hand a burning torch.”
The person signified hereby will be a fowler, or a searcher of secrets.Johannes Angelus, Astrolabium planum (1488), in Raphael, The Faces and Degrees of the Zodiac, 1879.
This degree covers 17°00′ to 17°59′ of Sagittarius.
A degree used by the Magus rule
The aptitude for the occult sciences. It is one of the four occult degrees in the wider sense.
- P. Christian’s “Theban calendar” (1863), our translation from the French: “A man holding a bird by the tail in one hand and a torch in the other.” Aptitude for the study of the occult sciences.
- La Volasfera (1898) describes a man’s face painted with grotesque scrolls and framed by tangled hair.
The 1488 image above is plainer than the 1863 one: the Magus is P. Christian’s addition. See the sources.
When the Sun is on this degree
In 2026: 9 December in the tropical zodiac; 2 January in the sidereal zodiac. The date shifts by a day from year to year.
In the directory
- Moses Dobruška: Moon (tropical)
- Paschal Beverly Randolph: Neptune (sidereal)
- Alfred Percy Sinnett: Saturn (tropical)
- Arturo Soria y Mata: Mercury (sidereal)
- Christian Morgenstern: Saturn (sidereal)
- Manly P. Hall: Jupiter (sidereal)
- Fritz Riemann: Uranus (tropical)
- Louis de Wohl: Moon (tropical)
- Raymond Abellio: Uranus (sidereal)
- Israel Regardie: Uranus (sidereal)
- Françoise Hardy: Venus (tropical)
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