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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Taurus of Taurus: The Peace of Home
0° Libra 00′ to 2° Libra 29′
Gradually, the wind stops shaking the house.
The clouds scull off, and the night stars appear.
The cat settles after chasing a mouse,
and all noise becomes familiar and dear.
Radiator gurgle, furnace rumble;
the distant howls of a coyote pack.
In her dreams, my wife makes a soft mumble,
and all the house is painted shades of black
that don’t match — like all of the fertile Earth.
Each place has its own significant soil,
contributing what it can to each birth,
so every being finds its rest and toil…
but also knows, in its skin or its bone,
a place of contentment that it calls home.
Image: A man wakes in the night to wander his home in contentment and ease.
Important Relationships
- Part of Ptolemy’s Term of Mercury
- Part of Decan I of Taurus (administrated by Venus): The Plough
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.
