This is a poem in this series of 144 poems that I’m writing based on the dodeks, or twelfth parts, of the Zodiac signs. As far as I know, everybody else calls them dodekatemoria, but that’s a very complicated word to say, so I just call them dodeks.
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Virgo of Virgo: The Accountant’s Distress
0° Virgo 0′ to 2° Virgo 29′ // roughly August 21-22
Sitting hunted over the stack of ledgers,
the clerk discerns erroneous entries:
an I.O.U. from some shiftless pledgers
is marked down as "cash" — slipped past the sentries.
This bill in arrears, with interest accrued
shrieks for repayment; that fee increase eats
all last year's profit... and what's still more rude,
next year's budgeting. Penny-pinching feats
won't safe from bankruptcy these general funds,
but are these mistakes — or fraud — in the books?
A blunder in sense, a dollar becomes...
but mobsters can ruin a man's life or looks
when daily slips reek with stenches of crimes
and Ponzi schemes hide in nickels and dimes.
Image: An accountant goes over the books in the back room of a seedy business, while sweating with worry.
Important Relationships
- Part of the Terms of Mercury in Virgo
- Part of Decan I of Virgo (administrated by the Sun): A Tree Bearing Fruit
- Fixed Star Regulus (Cor Leonis), 0° Virgo
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This is a part of a series of poems based on the dodekatemoria, or twelfth parts, of the Zodiac signs. The dodekatemoria are sub-segments of the Zodiac, each representing two degrees thirty minutes (2° 30′) of arc; there are 144 dodeks (as I call them) in the full Zodiac, or twelve in each sign. Each dodek is supposed to be a recapitulation or miniature repetition or summary of its parent zodiac sign, as though it were filtered through the lens of the main sign.
The Sun crosses this distance of 2° 30′ in about two and a half days, making these dodeks cognate with the Moon, which crosses one sign of the Zodiac, or thirty degrees (30°) in about two and a half days. The Sun’s passage through a dodek thus mirrors the Moon’s passage through a sign, and squeezes a “mini-year” of passage through twelve signs into a single month.
Each series of dodeks begins at 0° 00′ of its parent sign with the same sign, and there are four dodeks in each sequence of 10° degrees. Each poem in this series will give a (my) name of the dodek, its relevant degrees, a sonnet describing it, a 1-2 sentence description of the dodek, and some other information.
