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Daykeeper Journal Astrology

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Astrological Poem—Full Circle

By Susan Ironfield

Human nature:  text in twelve parts. Imagine
first the full round displayed, lore-mandala
rose-window twelve-rayed across the dark,
vibrant but flat, to make the global legible.
The shaped separate bits of colour hold their right
share of light—graded, aligned, integrated
to images that mirror meaning in mind and matter,
in each signed sector. These are distinct but linked,
cyclic elemental geometry of trines:
fire, earth, air, water, states of being
radiant-active, solid-bodily, gaseous-mental,
fluid-feeling. Behind the modal panels, planets
move and glow. Solar-drawn—but look up!
they are where they are, with sun and moon, around us.
The resonance of the macro-microcosmic field,
the archetypal governance, the guiding lights
of old gods are in every detail demonstrable.

Here the signs speak—are spoken to—as types.
But people are composite, although sun-centred.
Each life-chart weaves a world that time’s transits
help to lead along a learning-curve, to turn,
with luck and good management, negatives to positives—
not burned: warmed, not buried: firmed,
not dispersed: inspired, not drowned: resolved.

Susan Ironfield
Susan Ironfield

Susan Ironfield comes from Accrington, Lancashire, in the northwest of England. She studied languages at Liverpool University and worked for many years in Germany as a painter, on the theme of musical intervals. She now lives again in Liverpool with husband Reinhard. Her book Full Circle—Astrological Archetypes, from which this introductory poem is taken, is forthcoming from Janus in spring 2010. The poem is based on several textbooks in English and German, and will appeal to those who care about human nature and culture in the subject of astrology, its unique wisdom, experience, and imaginative scope, and amazing psychological accuracy. The poem contains many references to writers, artists and composers. For more information: ring Susan at 0151 280 7458, email or write to S. Ironfield, 17 Beverley Rd, Liverpool L17 9HF.

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