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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Scorpio of Leo: The Summer Picnic
7° Leo 30′ to 9° Leo 59′
Everyone brings their favorite summer foods —
there's an abundance of salads to eat,
but everyone gives in to complex moods
with allergies to milk, nightshades, or wheat.
The laughing kids run and move much too fast,
playing at games adults don't really get,
until some elder screams, "slow down!" At last —
if we ever knew this game, we forget
as we age. There's berries in the gloaming,
and ice cream and brownies; and the teens
wear fewer clothes — and their eyes are roaming
as they guess what every random glance means:
an August romance before chilly fall?
or what we want that can't be had at all.
Image: Two young people make eye contact at a summer picnic with elders and youngsters all around.
Important Relationships
- Part of the Egyptian Term of Mercury in Leo
- Part of Decan I of Leo (administrated by Saturn): The Spotlight
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.
