Virgo 17

The woman’s baldness signifies a mind freed from rational thought. She communicates with her dog through pure instinct, and receives back the dog’s messages. In the past, when a little girl, she had the instinctive nature of the dog, which became later overlaid with intellect and objectivity, which has now faded away, returning her to her former state and allowing her to re-contact her own animal nature directly. This is, in essence, a sort of time travel—returning to the past in the future.

This degree is about reconnecting with the ground of one’s being, and communing with one’s source. Doing so creates a clearer perception of the way one has developed and the course that’s been taken. It is a way of both assessing and grounding one’s overall evolution.

Unfortunately, the insights of this degree may be denigrated, scoffed at, or trivialized by others and this can result in a lack of trust in the value of one’s own instincts. A naked simplicity of thought may in the end come to be realized as great profundity.