Goddess Save the Queen!

An Autumn Equinox Poem

© 2017 by Joyce Mason

You come on leaves gently blowing

air crisping

grapes ripening

carousel colors streaming

rich shades cavorting

sounds whispering the gestation of snowflakes.

You are sensuous, ripe, bounty.

Your grand entrance, fashionably on time

same time each year

long awaited

a lover returning from the Other Seasons

and the Other Side

too long gone

outshining the other times of year

not meaning to.

Queen Libra, gentle figurehead

of ardor and fairness

grant me sanctuary

for the one month

I feel at home

in the Monarchy of Love, Beauty,

Sweetness and Connection

Balanced by your Golden Scales.

I lean in for the Kiss of Venus.

~~~

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Eclipsed

Poem © 2017 by Joyce Mason

We travel the world

to stand under its path of totality.

We risk our sight to see the Light blotted out.

Dramatic total darkness—it’s lore and legend,

hopes and fears—captivates the entire planet,

brings life to a standstill

necks craned, eager to watch the Cosmic Lack of Light Show.

Back in everydayness, smaller versions of this divine shadow,

This light/dark reset, occur at least daily or whenever we want them:

Sunrise/sunset

the solstices

and any time we close our eyes

To enter into the holiness of darkness and silence

which does not eclipse our light

but renews it.

~~~

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Mercury Retrograde Autumn

Poem © 2015 by Joyce Mason

Moon and Ceres kiss in Capricorn:

I look back to see how 

and what I have nurtured—fed.

Sun, North Node and Juno

Travel together in trio

opposite Vesta.

How have I held the flame,

my Olympic torch

toward new directions?

Autumn and the shift

from summer growth

remind us:

What we harvest depends on

what we plant and feed

and the direction we are headed.

So many planets in trine:

A symphony of weaving past, present

and future

Loud as falling leaves

No one time/space more important

Than the other—

Time Dancing as

One.

~~~

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