Sabian Symbols · Taurus · Degree 7 of 30
Taurus 7°
The traditional symbol for this degree, one of the 360 Sabian symbols first recorded in 1925: “A woman of Samaria draws water at the ancestral well.”
THE SYMBOL
“A woman of Samaria draws water at the ancestral well.”
Taurus 7° · 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, stripped to its essential image: a woman comes to a well her people have used for generations, for the plainest of reasons, because she is thirsty and the well is where water is. This degree honors ritual that has outlasted anyone's memory of why it started, the well still doing its one job across centuries because thirst never stops recurring. Taurus, a sign built on continuity, finds here an image of exactly that: inherited resource, still reliably giving what it always gave, met by someone who needs it right now rather than as history.
When a planet or point falls here
A planet at this degree often draws on resources or traditions inherited from far earlier than the self, tapping something ancestral for a need that is entirely present-tense. The Moon or the fourth house here can indicate real sustenance found in family or lineage, water that was there before you arrived and will be there after. It rewards going to the old well instead of only ever digging new ones.
What ancestral well are you still allowed to draw from, that you've been meaning to visit again?
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