from the complete tales and poems of Edgar Allan Poe
~ Aries: "Who calls you now - Arise! from your dreaming. In violet bowers, These star-litten hours- Up! Shake from your wing Each hindering thing: the dew of the night could weigh down your flight;"
~Taurus: "But now, my soul has too much room - Gone are the glory and the gloom. The black has mellowed into grey, And all the fires are fading away"
~ Gemini: "The noblest name in Allegory's page, The hand that traced inexorable rage; A pleasing moralist whose page refined, Displays the deepest knowledge of the mind; These names when rightly read, a name known Which gathers all their glories in its own"
~Cancer: "At midnight in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon. An opiate vapour, dewy, dim, Exhales from out her golden rim"
~Leo: "Look round the now on Samarcand! - Is she not queen of Earth? her pride Above all cities? in her hand Their destinies? in all beside Of glory which the world has known Stands she not nobly and alone?"
Virgo~ "And by strange alchemy of brain His pleasures always turned to pain - His naïveté to wild desire - His wits to love - his wine to fire"
~ Libra: "The ring is on my hand, And the wreath is on my brow; Satins and jewels grand Are all at my command, And I am happy now!"
~ Scorpio: "Death has reared himself a throne In a strange city lying alone Far down within the dim West Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best Have gone to their eternal rest While from a proud tower in the town Death looks gigantically down"
~Sagittarius: "By a route obscure and lonely Haunted by ill angels only, From a wild weird climb that lie, sublime, Out of Space - out of Time But the traveler, traveling through it, May nit - dare openly view it; Never its mysteries are exposed To the weak human eye unclosed"
~Capricorn: "It was my choice or chance or curse To adopt the cause for better or worse And with my worldly goods & wit And my soul & body worship it..." ~Aquarius ~ "A green isle in the sea, love, A fountain and a shrine All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers, And all the flowers were mine"
~ Pisces: "And thus my memory is to me Like some enchanted far off-isle In some tumultuous sea Some ocean throbbing far and free. With storms - but where meanwhile Serenest skies continually"
~extracts from the complete tales and poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Capricorn Sun, Virgo rising, Pisces Moon)
