Lion and unicorn

Seek each others’ gaze

Across the monkey world

Of division, number and measure....

The fool seeks the cooling waters of temperance.

The triumphal dragons

Of Sun and Moon

breathe the flame of life

into the loins of the lovers.

 

Melanie, Bali 29.11.2011

 

 

 

 

Polished forms intertwine

These same opposites

Fly high

Unite arms

Fill each space

 

Each different

    All one

 

No dark dragons please!

 

Ursula D., Studio E, 15.12.2013, London

 

 

 

 

Temperance …

    Up,

    Down,

    Pointing.

Lion,

Unicorn ...

     Sun,

     Moon,

In/Out.

     Moon up, Sun down.

Tails ...

 

Studio E 15.12.2013, London

 

 

 

 

 

 The Twins

 

Sun and shade, water and sky,

 

Everything divides down here …

 

Till two lonely dragons meet,

 

Till the twins kiss – then fly.

 

Sophie Juneau 30th Dec 2013

 

 

 

 

How far is far – how near is near

A comfortable distance

For love and detachment

Balance and centre

Modesty and arrogance

 

How far is far and how near is near

I see you and I love your difference

I see you and I love our difference

I see you and I love my difference

In the distance

My cup flows into yours and yours pours into mine

Love without knots –a light touch brings healing.

 

Sunflower, West Sussex, 29.12.2014

 

 

Duality, dexterity, balance ...

 

Union, completion, temperance ...

 

Intellect, hermaphrodite ...

 

Peace, love and healing.

 

Anon, London, 19.11.2018

 

 

 

The Fool holds the red rose

and gaily ventures forth,

meeting Our Lady of Temperance

patiently, devoutly, carefully, pouring

the Water of Life

From one chalice to the other.

 

This flow, this going to and fro …

bathes the naïve Fool

again and again.

In perpetual perplexity

becoming ever-weaving opposites

of exchange and union

until un-dual holy fire

burns in the soul.

Melanie, Old Warden, 29.12.2016

 

 

 

 

The airy Twins were forged by fire that

 

Alchemized their Fool’s attire

 

Their highs and lows befitting crown

 

As temperance’s want flies all around

 

Unicorn and lion there on sacred ground

 

                                                                  Kim S., Phoenix AZ, 29.12.2019

 

 

 

Entangled dragons deciphering hieroglyphs

 

explore dichotomy of body mind

 

Lashing out with silver tongue

 

inseparable from gentle gaze

 

Humility and arrogance recognise attraction

 

as feathered flight discovers golden inner space

 

Jacqueline, 30.12.2020, online

 

 

 

Gemini  

 

We are the elegance of balance.

 

An equilbrium always in danger.  

 

The healing power of snakes and dreams.

 

All united for one moment only,

 

and forever by Hermes by speed.

 

We glow in visual sign because

 

we two are Raphael, we are Hermes

 

in speed and vapor and breath. 

 

Gemini is speed without fire,

 

the finale of opposing sides at conjunction,

 

that which must be constantly

 

recombined in the glass retort.   

 

Sarah Fuhro