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Dodekatemoria 134: Aries 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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Aries of Pisces: Testing Currents

02° Pisces 30′ to 4° Pisces 59′

A fire alarm has its own power,
a battery rated to last ten years.
At the test, it turns into a howler —
the cat goes and hides, a bundle of fears.
Wires in the walls carry the current,
fluidly shift their screaming up the stairs
and though the shrieks are loudly abhorrent,
not spark nor flame will catch us unawares,
Yet rescuing pets may become a chore,
since the cat crawls beneath the credenza
and the kitten hides behind an armoire.
Each alarm echoes the first's cadenza
til with one last beep they silence their noise.
But cats keep hidden, away from their toys.

Image: a homeowner installs new fire alarms in their house, while the pets watch curiously.

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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