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Dodekatemoria 136: Gemini 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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Gemini of Pisces: Consult the Pros

7° Pisces 00′ to 9° Pisces 59′

The call comes in on a late afternoon,
when someone has a problem they can't solve.
They'd like you to fix it, and fix it soon:
this axel on which their main goals revolve
is broken, stuck, or slightly off-kilter
and only professional help avails.
You double-check parts, and change a filter —
your experience and patience prevails,
but the client won't notice your fretting
as your hired hand fixes your device
(the machine that ran on the wrong setting
too long, a printer you overworked twice,
or a water leak you tried to fix cheap).
We all need pros, sometimes — though costs run steep.

Image: A professional answers hard technical questions by phone, while a plumber fixes their overflowing sink in the background.

Important Relationships

  • Part of the the Egyptian Terms of Saturn in Pisces and Jupiter 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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