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

Home › Glossary › Letter E

Ecliptic

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

The apparent path of the Sun across the celestial sphere over a year, forming the zodiac belt.

Detailed Definition
Ecliptic: This celestial highway defines the zodiac’s 360 degrees and marks planetary motion. In poetry, it symbolizes cosmic order, fate’s trajectory, or the cycle of seasons. Poets invoke the ecliptic to frame human life within grander rhythms—linking birth, death, and rebirth to solar and lunar cycles. Its geometric precision contrasts with emotional chaos in verse, serving as a metaphor for divine law or the inescapable passage of time in elegies and cosmological meditations.
Example
Example in poetry:
Poets describe the ecliptic—the Sun’s apparent path—as the “golden road of the zodiac”; In ancient verse, the ecliptic is the celestial equator where gods traverse seasons; Milton references the ecliptic in “Paradise Lost” as the ordered path of heavenly bodies; Contemporary poets use the ecliptic to symbolize life’s cyclical journey through signs; The tilt of the ecliptic inspires poems about balance and perspective; In astrological poetry, the ecliptic frames the drama of planetary motion.
Additional Notes
The ecliptic is the Sun’s apparent path across the sky over a year—the plane of Earth’s orbit projected onto the celestial sphere. The zodiac constellations lie along it. In astrology, all planets move near the ecliptic, making it the stage for celestial events. In poetry, it symbolizes life’s cyclical journey, destiny’s path, or the intersection of time and space. Related: equinoxes, solstices, and the tilt that creates seasons.
Also Known As
Zodiacal path Solar path
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