Dodekatemoria 35: Aries of Gemini
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. This series is…
I’m pleased to report/record that as of this morning all 144 poems in the #Dodekatemoria cycle are complete on paper — and will be published to my blog over the next few months. #astrology #zodiac
I think we’re left with a problem — we can get the year, maybe the season, but not the week or day except by serendipity that we can’t control for most of the time.
Yep. My own wedding day, and when I was hit from behind in an hit and run, and days associated with serious illness — all non-events by ZR. Right month by PD/DTTB, but not close enough to be useful.
Absolutely. Some clients are bang-on exact, like the time I helped some clients get pregnant, twice. Some are more wibbly-wobbly.
… or my grandmother’s memory of 5:04 pm. And the times between 5:04 and 5:08 work for some things but not all of them, all at the same time.
See, that seems to be the right attitude — 1-2 minute adjustment putting you in the right ballpark, that feels about right. A friend has her birth time set by cord-cutting, not crowning (i.e., later than standard) and gets more precise results than I do with my “birth certificate” time of 5:08…
Ptolemy, usually. It’s the only one my software handles.
Yeah. For some of my clients PD/DTTB is right every time; for others it’s off by days or a couple of weeks. Precision of birth time may or may not matter as much as an unknown factor; I don’t yet know why.
That “temporal slosh” has advantages, too — it gives the native/client/self an approximate date for use as a rough deadline but not an exact moment of unavoidable fate. And maybe that slosh is what we need to be able to make our own fortunes possible.
Maybe we should be satisfied with being able to predict stretches of turbulence or of relatively calm living to a particular lunation period, rather than to the day or hour?
More precision isn’t necessarily an advantage — it’s just as likely that our techniques were developed in an “approximation simulator” and possibly aren’t reliable enough to apply more rigor to them.
I think it’s just as likely that our astrology techniques were developed in a world with no more precise timings than the stars themselves provided to the naked eye?
I feel that way about Zodiacal Releasing. Primary Directions gets me in the right … ten day stretch?… week?…. usually? ZR misses the mark by half a month or more.
oh what a foretaste of glory divine!
Dharma, at the right time and place, is certainly part of that process, even if dharma might look and sound and feel different in differing times and places and cultures.
The “Interpretatio Graeci/Romanum“ kinda suggests a relatively limited number of gods manifesting in widely differing aspects by city - province/state - country in order to bring about human well-being in varied tribes and nations.
A friend of mine has pointed out that a figure dressed like Hercules is a Chinese Dharma protector — and seems to have come east from the Mediterranean along with humoral medicine (aka Unani Tibb)… so, yeah.
If only a sitting senator would refer the secretary of defense to the relevant court for immediate prosecution with all tools available (of which there are many). Or demand that the house begin impeachment proceedings. Or both. Both is good.
Never miss a chance to tell my favourite science joke:
Q: What did Crick & Watson discover?
A: Rosalind Franklin’s lab book.
Dodekatemoria 34: Pisces of Gemini
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. This series…
I am glad. But they missed a chance to name the horse Mayo. Because sometimes, Mayo neighs.
Big Tech and Big Media donated some $63 million to a Trump-aligned nonprofit that was set up to help finance Trump's presidential library.
Now the nonprofit has disappeared and with it the money.
Three guesses on where it's gone.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Dodekatemoria 33: Aquarius of Gemini
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. This series…
Dodekatemoria 32: Capricorn of Gemini
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. This…
Dodekatemoria 31: Sagittarius of Gemini
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. This…
Sun in Pisces III: the Cup of Blood
The Sun enters Pisces III on 10 March 2026 at 9:57 am EDT — The Cup of Blood, as Austin Coppock named it in 36 Faces. T. Susan Chang, in her book 36 Secrets, built a range of connections between this decan and the 10 of Cups in the Tarot deck, which she called…
It’s day 9 of Trump’s reckless Iran War—and he’s now spent over $9.5 BILLION of your tax dollars. That’s more than USDA spends every year, in every school, on free breakfasts for students in America.
Dodekatemoria 30: Scorpio of Gemini
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. This series…
