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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Transit

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 current movement of planets over natal chart positions, indicating timing and life events.

Detailed Definition
Transit: As planets journey through the sky, their contact with natal points triggers experiences. In poetry, transits symbolize fate’s interventions—sudden love, loss, or revelation. Poets use transits to mark turning points, often aligning lyrical time with cosmic time. The tension between free will and destiny, central to much verse, finds expression in transit imagery: a Saturn return bringing maturity, or a Jupiter transit offering grace. Transits animate static charts into living stories.
Example
Example in poetry:
In astrological poetry, transits—planets moving over natal points—mark life’s turning points; Poets describe Saturn transiting the Sun as “a winter of the soul”; Sylvia Plath’s “Ariel” may reflect Uranus transit—sudden liberation and chaos; Contemporary poets write “transit diaries” in verse, noting cosmic weather; Transits in poetry symbolize external events triggering inner change; Poets use transits to weave personal narrative with celestial timing.
Additional Notes
A transit occurs when a moving planet forms an aspect to a natal planet or point, activating its meaning. Transits mark timing—e.g., Jupiter transit = opportunity; Saturn transit = challenge. In poetry, transits provide structure: a poem unfolding under a Uranus transit might explore sudden change. Essential for linking personal narrative to cosmic cycles. Key transits: Saturn return, Pluto square Moon, Jupiter conjunct Sun.
Also Known As
Planetary transit Astrological transit Transiting subway
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