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 Gemini: Sons of Thunder
22° Gemini 30′ to 24° Gemini 59′
Behold, two angels, winging over sea,
swiftly appearing at the sailor’s need.
On ocean’s broad lap, no one can be free —
A man’s convictions, turn to pliant reed
when thunderheads gather to spill out rain,
and Zeus wrestles, with fulminating wrath,
for Neptune’s trident. Can the Earth contain
the deeps, roused to fight on the humpback’s path?
Castor and Pollux, feather-light, appear!
Calm the storm and show the way to harbor!
May your steady wingbeats assuage our fear,
get us to shore, to trim vines on arbor,
and gently keep us from doom in the deep,
cut off from widows on the beach, who weep.
Image: Sailors hurriedly make ready their boat to handle an approaching storm, as they turn in the direction of a safe harbor on land..
Important Relationships
- Part of Ptolemy’s Term of Saturn in Gemini
- Part of Decan III of Gemini (administrated by the Sun): The Executioner’s Sword
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.
