Sabian Symbols · Aries · Degree 14 of 30
Aries 14°
The traditional symbol for this degree, one of the 360 Sabian symbols first recorded in 1925: “A serpent coils near a man and a woman.”
THE SYMBOL
“A serpent coils near a man and a woman.”
Aries 14° · Sabian symbols, devised 1925 (Marc Edmund Jones, clairvoyant Elsie Wheeler)
Remember to round up: a planet or point at 9°30′ takes the 10° symbol, not the 9° one.
What this degree describes
An old story, told without its usual moral: temptation, knowledge, and the two people it arrives for, with the serpent simply present rather than actively striking. This degree holds the charge of a garden without insisting on a fall; it is possibility coiled nearby, dangerous and generative at once, waiting to see what the two people do with it. Aries rarely pauses, but this degree makes you notice the coil before you decide how to move.
When a planet or point falls here
A planet here often signals real awareness of risk and temptation living close to a relationship or a decision, not as external bad luck but as something coiled right there in the situation. Pluto or Mars at this degree can describe a talent for sensing where danger and desire overlap. The degree rewards clear eyes rather than pretending the snake isn't in the garden.
What is coiled quietly near your closest relationships right now, neither striking nor leaving?
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