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A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

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Chiron Return

Astrology
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A recurring astrological cycle associated with the return of Chiron to its natal position.

Detailed Definition
A Chiron return can be used poetically as a season when an old wound becomes an experienced teacher rather than a fresh injury. The image does not promise simple healing; it honors the scar's continuing intelligence. In a poem, this return may bring a speaker back to childhood, exile, betrayal, or bodily vulnerability, but with a changed vocabulary. Pain becomes an archive, and the wound, though still tender, begins to teach the hand how to write.
Example
Example in poetry:
A Chiron return occurs when transiting Chiron returns to the position it occupied in a person’s birth chart, usually around age fifty; In a poem, the Chiron return can mark a late-life encounter with an old wound; “At my Chiron return, the scar learned to sing” turns astrological timing into an image of healing through art; A poet may use the term to frame midlife as a period of revisiting pain and developing wisdom
Additional Notes
A Chiron return occurs when transiting Chiron comes back to the zodiacal position it occupied at birth, usually around age fifty to fifty-one. In astrology it is associated with renewed attention to vulnerability, healing, and the transformation of old wounds. Chiron originates in Greek myth as a wise centaur, so the term often carries both pain and mentorship.
Also Known As
Return of Chiron Chiron's Cycle Healing Journey
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