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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Sagittarius of Scorpio: Checking the Furnace
2° Scorpio 30′ to 4°Scorpio 59′
The house is too hot. No, it's rather cold,
and the hot water only gets lukewarm.
Hit the reset button? I'm not that bold.
I'm afraid the furnace will come to harm.
But maybe it's already on the fritz,
burning fuel but never producing heat.
The heat in the parlor will dull your wits,
but frosty bedrooms could safely store meat,
unless tomorrow is sunny and bright.
The plumber will come, next week... or the next...
to tell us why we shiver through the night,
and send the bill when the furnace is fixed:
trailing autumn made the furnace struggle,
til the guy replaced a six-bucks toggle.
Image: A plumber fixes a basement furnace while a couple shiver in the living room of their house.
Important Relationships
- Part of the Egyptian Term of Mars in Scorpio
- Part of Decan I of Scorpio (administrated by Mars): The Jawbone
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.
