Decan Walk: middle decan of Sagittarius

This is the Part II update for the Nine of Wands, the middle decan of Sagittarius. See the previous Part I post for correspondences and data.

This is my birthday decan, and it has been an eventful one.

This decan is ruled by the Moon. The full moon on the Gemini/Sagittarius axis was during this decan on the 4th, with the Sun in Sagittarius at the exact degree of my Sun, which happens to be conjunct a space oddity called the Great Attractor. That is the 14th degree of Sagittarius. The Sabian symbol for the solar 14th Sagittarius degree reads “A vast panorama of sand and time is unfolding; the pyramids and Sphinx in their glory rise before the eye;” it reminds me of the Knight of Wands, which I consider (one of) my significators.

You can read more about the Great Attractor and the December full moon in this web version of the last newsletter. If you haven’t signed up for the newsletter yet, here is a sign up link.

What happened for me around this full moon was that the printers told me the Scions of 777 books and the new editions of Telos Tarot of 777, large and mid size, were completed and ready to ship out to me.

So that was exciting, and triggered the need to update everyone who ordered, through the newsletter and through the Kickstarter posts for the deck. Following that, was a few days of birthday celebrations. I usually celebrate the solar return and the actual birthdate, at the very least. Any excuse to celebrate. So there was indeed several days of food and fun, friends and partying.

Over the weekend I saw the Doors movie, called “When You’re Strange,” mostly about Jim Morrison, who was born December 8th, so with his Sun also in this decan, at the 16th degree. Fairly close to that Great Attractor, as I think the orb to consider is around two degrees.

Since then I’ve been busy, as this week the books and decks have been trickling in. I’ve been assembling the deck boxes, making booklets, etc. Now the new decks and books are almost all here. Here at the end of Sagittarius 2 I feel the burden of Sagittarius 3, the Saturn-ruled next decan, the Ten of Wands, already approaching. I’m already schlepping around extremely heavy boxes – these books weigh 2 lbs each. Plus boxes of decks. They all need to be carried in, piled up, sorted through. Books signed, decks signed and assembled. All before the huge undertaking of shipping, shipping, shipping, into the future. It’s going to be days and days of this, from now until sometime in the next decan.

Back to work for me, party-time is over; see you in Sag 3.