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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Pisces of Taurus: The Weary Debate
25° TAurus 00′ to 27° TAurus 29′
Oldest of arguments — “here” or “up there” —
What is the foundation and source of all?
No one in the conference ever fights fair,
whether at roadside shrine or market stall,
or in the temple court before the priests,
with implements of torture on display.
Are we merely meat, like the birds and beasts —
or is angel-substance mixed with our clay?
No chemist ever found a ground of soul
No alchemist ever found it missing —
ancient teachings see an obvious hole
in modern thought, which moderns love dissing
(and yet all evidence they muster, breaks
whenever souls to higher realms awakes).
Image: Two people argue on a street corner about the weather — one is in sunshine, the other under a cloud (which is caused by a malfunctioning air conditioner on a balcony above him).
Important Relationships
- Part of Ptolemy’s Term of Saturn
- Part of Decan III of Taurus (administrated by Saturn): The Prayer Beads
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.
