Denotes
winning poems,
candidates for
free attendance
at the 2017
OPA retreat
Astrology Day
March 20, 2016
A selection of poems
from OPA members in
honor and celebration
of Astrology Day.
Connecting
Earth and Sky,
since always.
Bonnie Svardal Arlan Wise
Moon Square Neptune Astrology in the Dreamtime
Washed up upon alien lands
Whose structure like shifting sands
I tread the surface lightly
Knowing my footprints vanish nightly
As waves mysteriously wash away
And drown the words I wished to say
I am the sailor who became marooned
When Neptune conspired with the Moon In the misty mystical timeless
twelfth house world where
we go when we sleep.
There is a library.
It is a storehouse of
astrological knowledge
watched over by Saturn and Mercury,
tended by the old souls of
astrologers who love their task.
It has bookshelves filled with volumes
of brightly colored covers.
The shelves go up so high that you
can’t see the tops of them as
they disappear into the mist…
Nikki DeKeuster
Pluto Remedies a Situation
Elizabeth Rozan
My Life in a Neptune Balloon
In the balloon
filled with helium and other
strange ethers
I am buoyed, released to the sky.
Out of the danger zone,
I am able to view
the shimmering kaleidoscope of
patterns
moving
in their contained circles,
clearly bound, but shape shifting in
relation to each other.
Safe, I no longer run
the risk of colliding
with the debris of asteroids
and cosmic dust.
Guided by the gravitational waves,
I’m drawn into the orbits around the Sun,
flawlessly radiant,
to face pure space,
open, simple,
and full of complex integrity.
The
Career
Astrologer
You know Mercury, and Mars,
and Earth, and Venus
Jupiter, and Saturn, and Neptune, Uranus
But do you recall, the very
last planet to fall?
Pluto the 1st dwarf planet,
Used to be the hallowed 9th one.
Excepting in Astrology,
Where we count the Moon and Sun.
All of the things Pluto rules
Power, death, and the extremes,
Astrologers still know are with us,
As Pluto slips behind the scenes.
All the words you have spoken
and will speak and all that you
wrote and will write in lives past
and future are stored there.
All the wisdom of astrologers,
those that have been and are
to come, is archived there.
When you need to learn, when you
need to reassure yourself that you
do know what the dance of the
planets means, you can go there.
The entry is found in deep sleep,
the door is always open.
Believe that it exists and you
will be admitted.
On that dusty August Eve Neil
Degrasse Tyson came to say,
Pluto with your mass so small,
you are not a planet at all.
Then how the people
mourned him.
Fittingly a Plutonic theme.
Pluto the 1st dwarf planet,
Now you’re free to
plot and scheme
Just like you always planned it,
Hidden from humanity!
OPA’s Quarterly Magazine
V25 -01 MARCH EQUINOX 2016
page
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