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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Aries of Scorpio: Burning Desires
12° Scorpio 30′ to 14°Scorpio 59′
You don't really need what's being offered,
but some deep yearning still bubbles within:
a book or a film some big cheese authored;
a new dress or shirt, to make you look thin —
an exercise class to help you get hot;
a new sofa-couch to welcome in guests;
the latest type of a house-cleaning bot;
some clever device for driving off pests;
a well-reviewed sex toy, red lingerie,
a case of the wine you adored last fall.
The price seems fair, and you're willing to pay;
you want it right now, and you want it all.
Nothing's so cold as sudden desire
to ashes burned, on reality's fire.
Image: A frustrated customer complains about what they received not being the same as what they bough, to no avail.
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.
