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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Libra of Gemini: The Loading Zone
10° Gemini 00′ to 12° Gemini 29′
All the signs say “no parking is allowed,”
yet everyone does, however briefly —
tearful farewells, alone or in a crowd,
and happy welcomes (on the curb, chiefly,
but sometimes in the road) makes this a gate
that sends some on to tropic bliss and ease,
while others go to bardos where they wait
to be called aboard. So goes the long tense.
No one has paid precisely the same fare,
and no part of the trip is guaranteed
(especially for journeys through O’Hare)
and travel’s results…? Rarely match the need.
Still, on swift wings, it’s here the trips begin,
where taxis honk and growl, and kin meets kin.
Image: A porter weighs luggage on a station scale while passengers greet one another, and various travel officials keep watchful eyes on all.
Important Relationships
- Part of Ptolemy’s Term of Mercury in Gemini
- Part of Ptolemy’s Term of Jupiter in Gemini
- Part of Decan II of Gemini (administrated by Mars): The Hermaphrodite
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.
