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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Capricorn of Gemini: The Archive Vault
17° Gemini 30′ to 19° Gemini 59′
The texts are vital and worth preserving,
though they may never be referenced again.
So they’re hidden away, thus conserving
with typescripts, and deeds written with quill pen,
and wills and trusts engrossed with oak gall ink —
and is that cuneiform baked in clay??
Is this tax-form in hieroglyphics scribed?
These mimeographs have just lost their stink;
this parchment was sheep’s skin, back in its day,
and this charter came from some royal hand.
His realm is long dead. But the doc was saved!
(One more small brick in the law of the land.)
The archive goes back, more than any knows,
but naught comes out, from what anyone stows.
Image: An archivist takes documents and scrolls and places them behind a strong vault door with other documents, texts, scrolls and charters.
Important Relationships
- Part of Ptolemy’s Term of Venus 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.
