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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Virgo of Cancer: The Angle of Water
5° Cancer 00′ to 7° Cancer 29′
This block is knocked out from under a pipe,
and that block down there is also popped.
Now things will play out. When the time is ripe —
such as when a bit of gristle is dropped
in the kitchen sink — or Dad’s “royal flush”
wedges in the john… the flood will arrive
as water does what it does, in a rush,
which is find the lowest point and then drive
through every porous surface it can find.
Folks look at the pipe but don’t really know
it’s not at the angle that was designed;
and as a result, the water will go
other places and routes than intended
until the proper angle is mended.
Image: Water leaks from ceiling and walls while a skilled plumber re-sets a single pipe — once set, the water stops overflowing.
Important Relationships
- Part of the Egyptian Term of Mars in Cancer
- Part of Decan I of Cancer (administrated by Venus): The Mother and Child
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.
