With the Sun’s Capricorn ingress nearly upon us, I would like to take the opportunity to wish all my friends, followers, and gentle readers of this web log a peaceful Winter Solstice, a Merry Christmas, and a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year 2021.
Letters swallow themselves in seconds.
Notes friends tied to the doorknob,
transparent scarlet paper,
sizzle like moth wings,
marry the air.
So much of any year is flammable,
lists of vegetables, partial poems.
Orange swirling flame of days,
so little is a stone.
Where there was something and suddenly isn’t,
an absence shouts, celebrates, leaves a space.
I begin again with the smallest numbers.
Quick dance, shuffle of losses and leaves,
only the things I didn’t do
crackle after the blazing dies.
Naomi Shihab Nye, “Burning the Old Year” from Words Under the Words: Selected Poems (Portland, Oregon: Far Corner Books, 1995).
This year’s Winter Solstice coincides with the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, also known as a Great Conjunction. To find out more about it, click on the link below. It will lead you to my blog post, which has been published in the November/December issue of Infinity Astrology Magazine. Readers of my web log can access it for free, here:
The Great Conjunction of 2020 and its Future Implications
Peter Stockinger's Traditional Astrology Weblog 