Sabian Symbols · Pisces · Degree 21 of 30
Pisces 21°
The traditional symbol for this degree, one of the 360 Sabian symbols first recorded in 1925: “A gentle household caretaker looks on as a young girl cuddles a small white lamb.”
THE SYMBOL
“A gentle household caretaker looks on as a young girl cuddles a small white lamb.”
Pisces 21° · 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.
Note: the 1925 original for this degree used dated ethnic imagery; the picture above keeps its meaning in respectful, modern terms.
What this degree describes
Innocence, twice protected: the lamb by the girl, and the girl, in turn, by someone older and watchful standing quietly nearby. This degree is one of the sign's purest pictures of tenderness, softness held safely inside softness, nothing here asked to defend itself alone. Pisces understands, better than most signs, that real innocence needs real supervision to actually survive intact.
When a planet or point falls here
A planet at this degree often shows genuine tenderness that depends on, and deserves, real protection around it. The Moon or Venus here can indicate someone whose gentlest qualities were, at some point, carefully safeguarded by another person's watchfulness. It rewards extending that same quality of care to whatever in your life is currently this unguarded.
What tenderness in your life is currently being kept safe only because someone else is quietly watching over it?
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