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 Scorpio: Restoring Order
00° Scorpio 00′ to 2°Scorpio 29′
The soldier prefers a certain order,
like sailors have to have their bunks ship-shape,
form neat lines at gates to cross a border;
don't pass these flimsy strips of yellow tape.
Every thing in his locker has a place;
every thing in his rucksack has a use.
It's always been this way, in war or peace.
Generals never let their warriors loose
until they've learned to clean and stow their gear.
And so it falls to use in our own time
that cleaning time eventually comes near,
and calm turns out from disarray and grime:
firm minds arise in well ordered places;
soldiers and artists know their own graces.
Image: A soldier visits the workshop of a busy yet careful artisan, admiring the careful arrangement of tools and materials.
Important Relationships
- Part of the Egyptian Term of Jupiter in Leo
- Part of the Egyptian Term of Saturn in Leo
- Part of Decan III of Leo (administrated by Mars): The Banner
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.
