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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Sagittarius of Aries: Emptying Closets
20° Aries 00′ to 22° Aries 29′
Some stories are better told in fresh light
after the children are wrapped in their beds,
and the bed of coals is one with the night.
Some tales don’t fit well in innocent heads.
So the elders wait to pile on fresh fuel,
and hear what’s morbid, dangerous or foul:
disasters, misfortunes, events most cruel;
what shakes the timid or makes the brave growl.
Sometimes there’s no hero to save the day,
no one to ride in on blazing white horse.
There’s only sorrow, where grace could not stay,
where destiny laid out a fatal course,
and thousands of mortals sped down that road —
straight to the moat ‘round Hades’ abode.
Image: A group of men sit around a campfire telling stories of ruins and failures.
Important Relationships
- Part of the:
- Decan III of Aries (administrated by Venus): The Burning Rose
Colophon
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.
