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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Qabalah

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

Jewish mystical system linking paths to planets, integrated in Hermetic astrology. In poetry, qabalah paths the Tree as esoteric stellar ladders.

Detailed Definition
Qabalah, sephirot and paths, assigns majors to arcs. Poets qabalize in symbolic verse like Yeats'. Literary trees symbolize ascent. The term's mystic map poeticizes enlightenment, where qabalistic stars climb, allowing explorations of kabbalah, archetype, and the sacred geometry of soul's celestial tree.
Example
Example in poetry:
In William Butler Yeats' "A Vision," Qabalah trees map the gyres' mystic phases; Aleister Crowley-inspired poets weave Qabalah paths in Enochian calls; Modern Jewish poet Alicia Ostriker in "The Nakedness of the Fathers" climbs Qabalah ladders of revelation; In medieval Kabbalistic verse, Qabalah sephirot bloom as divine emanations, educating on creation's tree.|T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets" echoes Qabalah in the still point's unity; Sylvia Plath's "Ariel" rides Qabalah currents of transformation.|In Rainer Maria Rilke's "Book of Hours," Qabalah veils the divine other's face; Pablo Neruda's "The Book of Questions" queries Qabalah mysteries of being.|In John Donne's "The Canonization," lovers form Qabalah saints in private altars.
Additional Notes
Qabalah's Tree of Life paths (22) correspond to major arcana/planets, e.g., path 32 Mercury. In poetry, it paths starry ascents like Kabbalistic hymns—context: Hermetic vs. Jewish; usage: for meditative charts; helps integrate esoteric layers in symbolic verse.
Also Known As
Kabbalah Qabala
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