A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

Closes

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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Dispositor

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 planet that rules the sign occupied by another planet and receives its symbolic authority.

Detailed Definition
The dispositor gives poetry a model of delegated power and nested identity. One figure may appear to act freely while another sign, memory, institution, or ancestor quietly governs the terms of action. A poem can trace a desire backward through its dispositors until it reaches a source that is intimate, political, or forgotten. The concept encourages layered characterization: every apparent ruler may itself be ruled, and every command may carry an older voice within it.
Example
Example in poetry:
A dispositor is the planet that rules the sign occupied by another planet in a birth chart; If the Moon is in Taurus, Venus is its dispositor because Venus rules Taurus; A poem can describe a dispositor as a hidden ruler directing another planet’s expression; “Mercury spoke with Saturn’s borrowed voice” uses dispositorship to suggest that one planet’s symbolism is governed by another
Additional Notes
A dispositor is the planet ruling the zodiac sign occupied by another planet. For example, if Mars is in Taurus, Venus is its traditional dispositor because Venus rules Taurus. Astrologers may trace chains of dispositors to interpret symbolic authority and dependency. The concept is especially useful for poems about governance, inheritance, or hidden influence.
Also Known As
Planetary Ruler Astrological Disposer Celestial Governor
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