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Dodekatemoria 107: Libra 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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Libra of Sagittarius: Awkward Mealtimes

25° Sagittarius 00′ to 27° Sagittarius 29′

Box after box gets left at the front door;
the letter-box is filled with parcel notes.
All sorts of stuff has come from foreign shore,
brought to our house by truck, and cargo boats:
toys for children, pajamas for adults,
fancy kitchen tools for grandma's baking,
a gadget for dad to sort nuts and bolts,
an eye-pad for mom to soothe her sleeping...
cardboard and styrofoam and packing tape
are all included in shipping charges.
We focus on the present — the skirt's drape,
and not the garbage loaded on barges,
that we gift to future generations,
crass luxuries, the shame of nations.

Image: Children look at toys in a shop window, while the proprietor fills a garbage can with packaging and waste.

Important Relationships

  • Part of the Egyptian Term of Saturn in Sagittarius shading into the Term of Mars in Sagittarius
  • Part of Decan III of Sagittarius (administrated by Saturn): The Horse’s Skull

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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