Andrew

Dodekatemoria 104: Cancer of Sagittarius

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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Cancer of Sagittarius: Waiting Rooms

17° Sagittarius 30′ to 19° Sagittarius 59′

The great hall is comfortable and well-lit,
with a number of different kinds of chairs.
Most everyone sitting here has a bit
of work: a book, schoolwork... some vacant stare
mark those who didn't plan to wind up here,
without a plan to use this time delay,
who fear bad news at the close of the year
as envoys come, whisper, and go away.
The TV is dark, which seems a mercy;
there's multi, too, but it's vague and quiet:
Siren songs on this island of Circe
where weak coffee is the only diet.
New people come in as the old ones depart;
the crowd's the same as it was at the start.


Image: In a high-ceilinged hall, men and women and non-binary persons wait for unknown information.

Important Relationships

  • Part of the Egyptian Term of Mercury in Sagittarius as it becomes the Term of Saturn in Sagittarius
  • Part of Decan II of Sagittarius (administrated by the Moon): The Harness // The Bridle

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.

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