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Dodekatemoria 133: Pisces of Pisces

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 Pisces: Other Possible Worlds

00° Pisces 00′ to 2° Aquarius 29′

Sometimes new planets swim into our ken,
like authors writing fresh dystopias —
worlds of willful damsels or harsh men
or perfect suburban utopias 
where every lawn's mowed in even, neat lines
and children bounce balls in synchronized forms.
Shakespeare hid England in Italy's crimes;
Atwood gave warning by Gilead's norms;
Silence, in Maycomb, was Harper Lee's life.
Arneson and Gygax fought with strange dice;
Martin killed winter with a black glass knife;
LeStat rocked the world in novels by Rice —
yet all your dreamlands are destined to fail,
if we keep silence and don't share the tale.

Image: A storyteller in a simple cottage keeps an audience riveted, although one child snoozes.

Important Relationships

  • Part of the the Egyptian Term of Saturn in Pisces
  • Part of Decan I of Pisces (administrated by Saturn): The Labyrinth

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.

Getting 144 things to appear in an official order, 1-144, is a logistical nightmare on this software. Go by number instead.

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