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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Rectification

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

Adjusting birth time for accurate chart via life events. In poetry, rectifications correct timelines or fated birth alignments.

Detailed Definition
Rectification, transits backfit, refines ascendants. Poets rectify in biographical verse like Browning's. Literary adjustments symbolize revision. The term's temporal fix poeticizes accuracy, where rectifications align stars to lives, enhancing explorations of origin, precision, and the retrofitted poetry of personal history.
Example
Example in poetry:
In astrological memoirs like those of Evangeline Adams, rectification aligns birth charts to life's pivotal events; Modern poet Natasha Trethewey in "Native Guard" rectifies ancestral timelines through memory; William Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" rectifies lost time with oracle's truth; In Vedic rectification by B.V. Raman's influences, past deeds adjust natal promises, teaching karmic alignment.|John Milton's "Paradise Lost" rectifies fall through redemption's arc; T.S. Eliot's "Little Gidding" rectifies history in rose and fire.|In Rainer Maria Rilke's "Letters to a Young Poet," rectification hones the inner voice; Percy Shelley's "Adonais" rectifies death into eternal verse.|In Emily Dickinson's "This is my letter to the World," rectification seals the soul's chart.
Additional Notes
Rectification tests events (e.g., marriage transits) to pinpoint time; methods include trutine of Hermes. Poets correct fated births in timeline revisions—related to animation; tip: use solar arcs; helps precise chart poetry, analyzing life event symbols.
Also Known As
Birth Time Rectification Corrective statement
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