☋ Dragons taile

Lines: ☋ Dragons taile, four lines from top to bottom

Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line 4
Dots: 5 — odd
Planet: None in this table. The Dragon's head and tail are the Moon's nodes, and the printing gives them no planet of their own.
Can it judge?: No. A Judge always has an even number of dots, and this figure has 5.

Nature in Turner’s table

The Dragons head, and Dragons tayle doe follow their own natures

Of Geomancy, scan p. 4 — in the Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy, Robert Turner's English, London 1655

In plain English The printing gives ☋ Dragons taile its nature in a sentence it shares with ☊ Dragons head, and distinguishes the two only as “the first” and “the second”. ☋ Dragons taile is the second.

Signs and elements in the five lists

These are separate source lists, not one blended correspondence. The first zodiacal list and the first elemental list contain gaps or duplications, which are left visible.

Signs inferred from planetary houses: ♏ Scorpio
Later zodiacal list: ♑ Capricorn
Triplicities from sign order: Water
Triplicities from planets and figures: Water
The list Turner calls vulgar: Fire

Compare all five lists and read their source passages →

Meaning in each house

Turner does not write twelve separate entries for the Dragon’s Tail. He gives one rule for every house, quoted below. The twelve links identify the house topics; they do not pretend to supply wording the book lacks.

Cauda Draconis, in all and singular the respective Houses aforesaid, giveth the contrary judgement to Caput.

Of Geomancy, scan p. 30; Dragon's Tail rule — in the Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy, Robert Turner's English, London 1655

In plain English Turner supplies one instruction for all twelve houses: read the Dragon's Tail as contrary to the Dragon's Head. This study does not invent twelve opposites where the source gives none.