Latin Names:
- Puella: Girl · Daughter · Maiden · Young Woman · Young Wife · Sweetheart · Beloved Woman;
- Mundus Facie: Clean-Faced · Pure-Faced · Fair-Faced · Pretty · Beautiful in Appearance · Comely · Well-Favored · Neat · Elegant · Refined · Well-Groomed · Adorned in Appearance · Pure of Form or Face.
Greek Name: Smooth-Faced One · Beardless One · Youthful One (ανηβος — Anēbos).
Arabic Name: Pure-Cheeked One · Clean-Cheeked One · Immaculate-Cheeked One · Spotless-Cheeked One · Smooth-Faced One · Fair-Cheeked One · Clear-Complexioned One (نقي الخد — Naqi al-Khadd).
Hebrew Name: Pure-Cheeked One · Clean-Cheeked One · Clear-Cheeked One · Fair-Cheeked One · Smooth-Faced One (בר הלחי — Bar ha-Lechi).
Alternative Names: Beauty · Purity.
Image: a mirror; a female figure with exaggerated breasts.
Element: 🜁 air.
Planet: C Venus, especially in its diurnal expression.
Zodiac Sign: g Libra.
Natural Property: firm, stable, and strong.
Inversion: Puer.
Complement: Rubeus.
Body System: female reproductive system.
Anatomy: kidneys, ureters, urethra, urinary bladder.
Human Significations: girl, woman, wife.
The Master Signification of Puella
Woman, Mirror, and Venusian Form
Puella is the figure of the girl, the woman, beauty, purity, attraction, harmony, and pleasant union. If Puer enters a situation with a sword, Puella enters it with a mirror. She does not cut, force, or conquer by violence. She attracts, softens, adorns, reconciles, and makes union desirable.
The Latin name Puella means a girl, daughter, young woman, sweetheart, or young wife. In questions about people, this figure can therefore signify a girl, woman, wife, love interest, bride, daughter, mother, sister, female relative, girlfriend, neighbor, maidservant, worker, or any woman involved in the matter.
Puella is the natural significator of woman as such. She may signify not only a girl or young woman, but woman in general: a wife, bride, beloved, daughter, mother, sister, female friend, neighbor, maidservant, worker, or any other woman whose role is important in the question. Sometimes it is simply a neutral indication of a woman or wife in the chart.
If Puella is turned upside down, Puer appears. For this reason, Puella and Puer form the primary female—male pair among the geomantic figures. Puella shows the feminine side; Puer shows the masculine side. Puella attracts; Puer pursues. Puella softens; Puer breaks through. Puella unites through pleasantness; Puer acts through force.
The image of Puella is a mirror, or a female figure with exaggerated breasts. The mirror shows not only beauty, but reflection, self-image, appearance, attraction, and the ability to see oneself through the gaze of another. The exaggerated breasts point to the female body, sexual attractiveness, fertility, nourishment, sensuality, and bodily form as an object of desire.
By its natural quality, Puella is stable, firm, and strong. This must be remembered from the beginning. Puella is not a weak figure by nature. Her strength is not Martial or Saturnian; she does not break, crush, or bind. Hers is the stable Venusian power of form, beauty, peace, agreement, and attraction.
Venus in Libra: Peace through Attraction
Puella is Venus in Libra. From this come her core meanings: love, beauty, peace, pleasantness, marriage, sexual attraction, friendship, agreement, art, music, games, adornment, clothing, cosmetics, perfume, graceful speech, pleasant company, and everything that makes life more desirable to the senses.
Venus does not act like Mars. Mars overcomes resistance through impact, heat, pressure, and rupture. Venus acts through attraction, pleasure, softness, agreement, and the wish to be near. She does not break the door down; she makes the door open. She does not compel; she inclines. She does not destroy enmity by force, but weakens it through peace, affection, pleasure, and mutual sympathy.
Libra adds balance, proportion, measure, and relationship between two sides. This is not beauty existing alone for its own sake, but beauty turned toward another. Libra always implies the second scale: a partner, speaker, lover, ally, client, judge, opponent, audience, or society.
For this reason, Puella is often favorable in questions of love, friendship, marriage, reconciliation, agreement, artistic work, beauty, pleasure, music, clothing, adornment, celebrations, and pleasant journeys. She is especially useful where a conflict must be softened, a person made favorable, a form beautified, an agreement reached, or circumstances made more pleasant.
Her good is not the good of force, authority, law, or victory. It is the good of agreement, attraction, peace, softness, and pleasant union. As a figure of Venus, the Lesser Benefic, Puella acts favorably in most ordinary human questions, provided the question itself belongs to her nature.
Beauty, Purity, and Adornment
The alternative names of Puella are Beauty and Purity. These are exact names. Puella signifies not only what is beautiful, but what is clean, neat, well-kept, graceful, pleasing to the eye, and brought into harmonious form.
The Latin Mundus Facie, the Arabic Naqi al-Khadd, and the Hebrew Bar ha-Lechi all gather around the same image: a clean face, a pure cheek, smooth skin, pleasant appearance, and an unstained outward form. This is not accidental. For Puella, the face and outer form are essential. Through the face, a person becomes visible, pleasing, desirable, and socially received.
Venus does not merely add decoration to a thing. She makes form lovable. She creates pleasantness through proportion, softness, color, scent, sound, rhythm, texture, and refinement. Puella may therefore signify a beautiful woman, a pleasant face, clean skin, jewelry, clothing, grooming, cosmetics, perfume, artistic decoration, interior beauty, music, dance, a peaceful atmosphere, or any thing whose power lies in beauty and pleasantness.
Yet the purity of Puella is not the austere purity of Albus. Albus purifies through cold clarity, reason, sterility, whiteness, and the separation of impurities. Puella purifies differently: through grooming, beauty, propriety, peace, taste, and pleasing form. Albus is a clean formula, a clean room, a clean mind. Puella is a clean face, clean clothing, clean skin, a clean gesture, a pleasant manner.
Love, Marriage, and the Power of Agreement
Puella is especially strong in questions of love. She can show love, sympathy, falling in love, sexual attraction, courtship, beauty, feminine allure, a wife, bride, mistress, girlfriend, or a woman toward whom desire is directed.
But her love is different from the passion of Rubeus and the thrust of Puer. Puer wants to act and possess. Rubeus seethes, burns, desires, and sometimes loses measure. Puella seeks pleasant union. Her power is not seizure or combustion, but the fact that the other person wants to come closer.
In questions of marriage and partnership, Puella is usually favorable because she brings agreement, softness, compromise, readiness for peace, and the desire to be in relationship. She can help negotiations, reconciliation, settlement, alliance, or the restoration of a pleasant bond after tension.
It is important to remember that Puella is a figure of Venus, the Lesser Benefic. Her basic action is favorable: she softens, adorns, joins, reconciles, and makes circumstances more pleasant. She does not become a bad figure merely because she is unsuited to Martial affairs, severe discipline, war, coercion, or heavy struggle. The question must fit the nature of the figure.
Superficiality, indecision, changeability, and yielding to pleasure are not the primary meanings of Puella in herself. They appear especially when the figure is damaged, joined with bad figures, or placed in a matter that requires firmness, endurance, severity, and the ability to go against what is pleasant. Then beauty may become temptation, peacemaking may become avoidance of conflict, and the wish to be liked may become dependence on another person’s gaze.
Puella and Puer: Attraction and Pursuit
Puella and Puer are the natural pair of woman and man, Venus and Mars, attraction and action, softness and force, agreement and thrust. If Puella is turned upside down, Puer appears. These two figures are therefore not only opposites, but two sides of one human and sexual axis.
Puer is masculine force, the sword, initiative, pursuit, impact, and outward action. Puella is feminine force, the mirror, beauty, attraction, consent, and the desire for union. Puer seeks to enter the situation; Puella makes the situation desirable. Puer acts; Puella inclines. Puer raises the sword; Puella shows the face in the mirror.
When Puella and Puer are joined by reception, they produce Conjunctio. This is a highly expressive internal rule of geomancy. Male and female, Mars and Venus, desire and attraction, thrust and consent are joined through the figure of connection. In questions of love and the body, this may signify not only psychological sympathy, but the literal joining of bodies.
Puella together with Puer may therefore indicate a relationship, marriage, sexual contact, partnership, reconciliation, the union of man and woman, or the joining of two opposite sides. As always, the context decides the quality of this union. In questions of marital infidelity, the same combination may become a sign of sexual union outside the marriage.
This pair is also important for describing appearance and behavior. If a man is signified by Puella, this may indicate softness, femininity, adornment, delicacy, pleasant appearance, love of pleasure, or a manner perceived as feminine. If a woman is signified by Puer, this may indicate sharpness, force, independence, roughness, combativeness, sexual initiative, or a masculine way of behaving. The figure does not cancel the person’s sex; it shows how that person manifests in the question.
Puella and Amissio: Two Venuses, Harmony and Loss
Puella and Amissio are the two figures of Venus. Both belong to love, desire, beauty, pleasure, the body, value, and benefit. But they show different ways in which Venus acts.
Puella is Venus in Libra: beauty, agreement, attractiveness, manners, union, marriage, harmony, and pleasant relationship between people. She acts through form, sympathy, and peace.
Amissio is Venus in Taurus: value, body, property, pleasure, possession, and the departure of something from one’s hand. Since Venus is a nocturnal planet and Taurus is a nocturnal sign, Amissio is stronger than Puella as a Venusian figure. But “stronger” does not mean “better”: Amissio produces its own action more powerfully—loss, giving away, spending, selling, release, or the departure of a thing from one’s possession.
Thus Puella shows Venus more clearly as the beauty of relationship, while Amissio shows Venus as value that is given away or lost. Puella joins and adorns; Amissio gives and lets go.
Puella and Rubeus: Purity and Corruption
When the points of Puella are changed from single to double and from double to single, Rubeus appears. This is one of the most expressive pairs among all the figures. Puella shows beauty, purity, pleasantness, femininity, harmony, and peace. Rubeus shows redness, passion, blood, corruption, shame, violence, jealousy, intoxication, and loss of measure.
Their opposition can be stated simply: Puella is pure and pleasant Venusian form; Rubeus is damaged and dangerously excited passion. Puella is the girl, wife, beloved, beauty, and pleasant manners. Rubeus is the prostitute, sexual obsession, jealousy, shamelessness, dark passion, crude excitement, or corruption of desire.
The meaning of this pair is that the same field—beauty, desire, the body, sexuality, and attraction—may either be preserved in harmonious Venusian form or corrupted by Martial passion, jealousy, roughness, and inner decay. Puella unites through beauty and agreement; Rubeus seizes through heat, blood, shame, and loss of measure.
For this reason, the claim that Puella is “unreliable” or “inconstant” should not be made into her essential nature. In herself, Puella is stable, firm, and strong. But when her harmony is damaged through Rubeus, pleasantness may become temptation, love may become passion, beauty may become a trap, and peace may become an unstable condition already ready to change.
Puella and Via: Voice, Silence, and the Via Combusta
Puella and Via form capital company, because both figures have a single point in the line of the Head. In this company, Via changes Puella into Rubeus. For Puella, this is one of the most undesirable forms of company.
The meaning is not only that the purity and beauty of Puella are damaged and pass into the redness, passion, shame, or corruption of Rubeus. There is a subtler layer as well. Puella is linked with Libra, a movable and loud-voiced sign. Rubeus is linked with Scorpio, a fixed and mute sign. Via therefore changes not only the quality of desire, but the way it is expressed.
What could be spoken, settled, softened, expressed beautifully, or brought into agreement in Puella is suppressed in Rubeus. The voice of Libra becomes the muteness of Scorpio. Pleasant speech becomes hidden feeling. Compromise becomes accumulated resentment. Graceful manner becomes secret tension, jealousy, shame, or passion that the person no longer brings into the open.
The modality also changes. Puella, as a figure of Libra, has a movable nature: she seeks to begin contact, restore balance, find the form of relationship, and bring two sides into agreement. Rubeus, as a figure of Scorpio, is fixed: it holds, intensifies, thickens, and seals feeling within. Via here turns a light movement toward harmony into fixed inner tension. What could have been resolved through speech begins to accumulate in silence.
Here we find a geomantic analogue of the Via Combusta, the Burnt Way. In astrology, the Via Combusta is the zodiacal region from 15° g Libra to 15° h Scorpio, especially troubling for the E Moon. In geomancy, a similar image is expressed through the figures: Via is the lunar figure of path and movement; Puella is linked with Libra and Venus; Rubeus is linked with Scorpio and Mars. In capital company, Via carries Puella toward Rubeus: harmony burns, the voice falls silent, pleasantness reddens, purity is corrupted, and beauty loses measure.
This does not mean that every contact between Puella and Via must be read dramatically. But in questions of love, fidelity, female reputation, marriage, beauty, pleasure, speech, secrecy, and moral purity, this company deserves attention. This is not simply “a girl on the road.” It is a path that may lead Puella through a burnt place.
Fire, Water, and Earth without Air
The elemental structure of Puella helps us understand her more deeply. In this figure, Fire, Water, and Earth are active, but Air is inactive.
At first this may seem strange, because Puella corresponds to Libra, and Libra is an Air sign. But these are different symbolic layers and should not be confused. The zodiacal sign shows one layer of the figure’s nature; the elemental structure of the lines shows another. Puella may therefore be linked with airy Libra while still having a passive line of Air within the figure itself.
Fire gives Puella energy, desire, attractiveness, and the ability to stir movement. Water gives empathy, feeling, inner receptivity, emotional softness, sexuality, and the ability to join. Earth gives body, form, beauty, stability, and material support. Puella has desire, feeling, and body; she has energy, empathy, and form.
But Air is passive. For this reason, Puella may lack active planning, calculation, strategy, cold analysis, a thought-out line of conduct, and the ability to foresee consequences. She can feel well, please well, adorn well, soften well, and create a pleasant form, but she does not always build the long road ahead.
This is where her possible flightiness and superficiality appear. Not because Puella is foolish or bad, but because her nature is easily satisfied with the pleasant present: there is beauty, sympathy, pleasure, and peace—and that may seem enough. But if a situation requires strategy, long calculation, hard discipline, or unpleasant truth, passive Air becomes a point of vulnerability.
This is an important difference from Puer. Puer lacks active Water: he has action, movement, and material force, but lacks inner softness. Puella lacks active Air: she has desire, feeling, form, and bodily attractiveness, but may lack planning, calculation, and strategic engagement with circumstances.
In good condition, this gives harmony, marriage, friendship, beauty, art, peace, pleasant society, and the ability to soften conflict. When damaged, it may give dependence on another’s gaze, yielding to approval, flirtation, indecision, love of pleasure without long-term calculation, and avoidance of necessary struggle.
The Person of Puella
A person signified by Puella is usually pleasant, soft, sociable, peaceable, gracious, and inclined toward harmony. Such a person prefers agreement to conflict, beauty to roughness, pleasant speech to sharp dispute, and compromise to open confrontation. They may be artistic, musical, aesthetically sensitive, fond of clothing, adornment, comfort, pleasant company, amusements, games, and everything that makes life more beautiful.
Puella gives strong feelings, but Libra gives them measure, form, and social awareness. Such a person is therefore not necessarily blindly emotional. They may be attentive to manners, fairness, another person’s reaction, appropriate behavior, and the outward harmony of the situation. What matters is not only what they feel, but how it looks, sounds, and is received.
In a good manifestation, Puella gives tact, charm, softness, artistic taste, the ability to reconcile people, a pleasant voice, love of music, and the gift of making a space beautiful and peaceful. This is the sort of person around whom things become easier, gentler, and more pleasant.
In a damaged or unbalanced manifestation, Puella may give laziness, indecision, dependence on pleasure, fear of conflict, cowardice, superficiality, excessive concern with appearance, easy infatuation, jealousy, gossip, flirtation, or troubles through love. Such a person may avoid difficult action not because Puella is weak by nature, but because the action is unpleasant, crude, or disruptive to harmony.
This is where the traditional note of cowardice makes sense. Puella is the inversion of Puer. Where Puer rushes into danger, Puella is more likely to seek peace, safety, pleasantness, and agreement. This is not necessarily a fault: in most human affairs, peace is better than fighting. But when the situation requires courage, sharpness, and willingness to enter conflict, Puella does not act in her own way.
Appearance, Voice, and Bodily Charm
In appearance, Puella most often gives attractiveness, softness, roundness, pleasant form, and refinement. The body may be of medium height, well-shaped, soft, somewhat full, or slender, but not coarse. The face is usually pleasant, round or oval, clean, rosy, fair, or softly colored. The eyes, eyebrows, lips, and expression often appear attractive.
The hair may be fair, light brown, yellowish, straw-colored, soft, or long; dark hair is also possible when supported by other indications. Authors often emphasize a pleasant complexion, rosy cheeks, beautiful lips, dimples, freckles, or small marks that do not spoil the appearance, but make it lively and memorable.
The voice is especially important. Libra is a loud-voiced sign, and Venus gives the voice beauty, softness, and pleasantness. Puella may therefore signify a person who sings well, speaks beautifully, has an attractive manner of speech, or influences others not by the force of words, but by their charm.
The old authors generally agree on this point: Puella and her astrological foundation, Venus in Libra, give pleasant appearance, soft or beautiful form, an attractive face, a good voice, love of refined company, and the ability to make a favorable impression. This is not the Martial muscularity of Puer, nor the dangerous redness of Rubeus, but Venusian embodiment: form pleasing to sight and desire.
General Judgment
Puella is one of the most favorable figures in ordinary human questions, because she belongs to Venus, the Lesser Benefic. She brings beauty, love, peace, harmony, happiness, friendship, marriage, reconciliation, pleasant conversation, art, music, games, pleasure, and everything that softens the roughness of life.
By her natural quality, Puella is stable, firm, and strong. She is not a fragile or weak figure, but a stable Venusian form: beauty that holds; peace that secures a bond; pleasantness that creates union; feminine power that does not break, but holds through attraction, agreement, and harmony.
She is especially good where the question concerns love, women, marriage, friendship, beauty, clothing, adornment, music, art, games, rest, celebration, compromise, reconciliation, a pleasant journey, or short-term happiness. She makes circumstances softer, people more agreeable, and union more desirable.
Puella is not suited, however, to matters requiring a Martial strike, severe discipline, hard struggle, war, coercion, surgery, harsh judgment, asceticism, or the willingness to pass through unpleasantness for the sake of necessity. In such questions, the problem is not weakness in Puella, but the mismatch between her nature and the matter itself. She acts through Venus, not through Mars or Saturn.
Her main danger is not evil, but beauty without depth and pleasantness without long calculation. When Puella is damaged, beauty becomes temptation, love becomes dependency, peace becomes avoidance of truth, pleasure becomes laziness, adornment becomes vanity, and the desire to be loved becomes dependence on another’s gaze.
In her pure form, Puella is the mirror of Venus: beauty that attracts, purity that inclines, softness that joins, and feminine power that makes life more desirable.
