This poem is a writing exercise for my online writer’s group. The exercise this month is to use a word and answer a question (each writer contributes a word and a question, which are randomly drawn and reassigned). My word for this one was ‘kickstart’; the question was, ‘How much is that going to cost us?’
- phee

Kickstart This Poem

Somebody kickstart me please

And where did I put my keys
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To understand astrology, break it down to the four elements. Each element has a fundamental character.

Fire: creativity, inspiration, excitement, energy, motivation, expansion
Earth: usefulness, substance, beauty, organization, containment
Water: flow, changeability, impressionability, mystery, solubility
Air: information, communication, ideation, abstraction, relation

To understand a sign or a planet or a house, look at its elemental rulership or association.
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I’d forgotten that I was going to post the horoscope columns I write for the Island Word (print edition) here, so we’ve missed the last few months’ worth. Ah well, here’s April’s, I’ll be on it for the future. Enjoy! Some art, too.

Real astrology is another matter. But horoscopes are to astrology what the alphabet is to the English language. Fun to play with.

Down-to-Earth Astrology

by Phoenix Wolf-Ray
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It’s a new year, astrologically speaking. Yesterday was the Vernal Equinox, also known as the first day of spring, also known as the day the Sun moves into the first sign of the zodiac (Aries).

Time to start new things, discard old ones. For every new thing, an old thing has to go away to make room for it. No, that’s not an argument for mandatory retirement, or for older folk to ‘know their place’ (quite the contrary). We’re all the gods of our own creations, and we’re not here to make way for others, but to maximize the potential of our own selves. There is room for everybody, even if we have to make room for ourselves by inventing new spaces into which to unfold.
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It’s the one hundredth anniversary of International Women’s Day today, and because I have been procrastinating writing so long, I’m going to use the day to motivate myself. And because I have been procrastinating writing so long, this is very long!

Tonight, there is an event on Hornby I’d love to be at, and if I still lived there, I’d be all over it. But instead, I am here, home alone (I did receive an invitation to read today at an event on Mount Washington, but my car isn’t mountain-worthy and I was unable to hook up with anybody else going, not knowing any of them and all.

I miss my island! I miss my community. That’s the truth. Still, I feel so many exciting openings beckoning in this community, I don’t imagine I will be lacking for opportunities. But. It’s not Hornby.
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