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 Scorpio: The Tax Bill
10° Scorpio 00′ to 12°Scorpio 29′
It's not nice to see — this huge call for funds,
this forced imposition of sweat and tears
to pay for prisons and courtrooms and guns,
auditors, law-men, and debts from past years;
prosecutors, firemen, and police,
road repair, soldiers, garbage disposal,
schools for children and wilderness for geese,
advisors to test every proposal,
skyways for airplanes, railroad tracks for trains,
sewers and subways and telecom lines,
weather reporting, science to ease pains,
safety inspectors for food, drugs, and mines.
We pay — as we grumble and moan and sneer,
"government did nothing for me last year!"
Image: A man in a public place, surrounded by emblems of good government, reluctantly pays his taxes.
Important Relationships
- Part of the Egyptian Term of Jupiter in Scorpio
- Part of Decan II of Scorpio (administrated by the Sun): The Alchemical Apparatus
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.
