THE MATH: (Venus ENTERS Virgo) = their meaning, the Way
THE WEAVE:
Venus turns on the Light
in Vesta's Lighthouse.
The cupboards are covered
in cobwebs. No One has been
home in over
a year. She tinkers with
the trinkets, imagining
their meaning, the Way
you would in the attic
of a house that has stood
for many generations; Time
travelling talismans, collected
from the nether-regions
of Space and Sea depths.
Vesta never holds onto
anything, for too long.
She trades her trinkets,
or gives them a Way.
She picks them up,
and puts them down
again, rearranging
the continuum. "Fucking
everything up," Venus whispers
critically. She handles 'Strange
Victory,' opening it
at random, reading...
"In a Darkening Garden
Gather together, against
the coming of the Night,
All that we played
with Here, toys and fruits,
the quill from the Sea-bird's
flight, the small flute,
hollow and clear;
The apple that was not
eaten, the grapes
un-tasted-
Let them be put aWay.
They served for us,
I would not have them
wasted, they lasted
out our Day.
~ Sara Teasdale"
Planetary Signatures 