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Dodekatemoria 138: Leo 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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Leo of Pisces: The Reluctant Dancer

12° Pisces 30′ to 14° Pisces 59′

The dude is at the club for the first time,
and either he can't — or won't — start dancing.
He's posed like a bouncer, head beating time,
and is face says, "I'm not built for prancing..."
No one can shut out music for ever;
rhythm pumps the blood and vibrates the bones,
and to refuse to dance is to sever
a body's links with heaven's seven tones.
He thrusts his elbows and shrugs his shoulder,
and shakes his hips a little, side to side.
As the bass drops, he becomes much bolder:
while flesh kidnaps mind on a joyful ride.
After some time his brain regains command
and stills his body — except for one hand.

Image: A burly fellow frowns and stands still in the middle of a group of gyrating dancers.

Important Relationships

  • Part of the the Egyptian Terms of Venus in Pisces and Jupiter in Pisces
  • Part of Decan II of Pisces (administrated by Jupiter): The Net

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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