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Dodekatemoria 139: Virgo 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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Virgo of Pisces: Open Hailing Frequencies

15° Pisces 00′ to 17° Pisces 29′

She sends and receives many messages,
and distributes mail where it's intended,
pulls deep secrets from crowded passages,
and speaks compassion to the offended.
Both encyclical and secret cable
come to her station, and go out again —
Honest report or fabulist's fable,
dreading and dreamings of women, or men.
Traffic is constant in both directions,
long letters out, some mere postcards returned;
thrilling news announced, with strangers' dictions
of new jobs or kids, lost incomes, towns burned,
dead parent, grave illness, hellish divorce...
inheritance, invoice, or empty purse.

Image: A communicator speaks to a customer while a postal worker sorts mail nearby.

Important Relationships

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