SUGAR ASTROLOGY

Erasure Poems
for Every Zodiac Sign
by Shari Zollinger
Illustrations by Holli Zollinger
—Erasure original text: The Astrological Houses by Dane Rudhyar (Doubleday, 1972)
ARIES
March 21 to April 19
The first moment
heart, light, vibration—rhythm.
Symbol-sunrise, all beginnings.
Ocean-capable, the number 28, revelatory
in touch.
TAURUS
April 20 to May 20
Possessions.
Material-means-reservoir.
We call instincts radical. Intimate
ancestral body.
Value, second form, scope—love.
GEMINI
May 21 to June 21
Kinship’s basic influence,
its skin, necessary.
Attention undoubtedly rooted.
Intelligence a complex game.
Language in third things.
CANCER
June 22 to July 22
Conception subsoil.
Body, psyche— graves
of the center. Fourth primary cusp.
Matrix taproot resides fundamental,
blooms vertical.
LEO
July 23 to August 22
Intercellular heat, fifth
vision. Creative act attempts play.
Encounter chemical. Gambling hunches.
Loves root-sustainment.
Actor act.
VIRGO
August 23 to September 23
Transition from sharp
nerves, a greater work.
Communion.
Vitality-threshold essential.
Sixth refraining custodian.
LIBRA
September 23 to October 22
We are no longer selves.
Devotees to relation, seventh wedded
cooperation.
Sublime partnership transmits
shape-cycle, value— spell.
SCORPIO
October 23 to November 21
Mid-autumn leaves, cyclic mythos—
basic world. What is order?
Taboos. Transformation. Eighth light.
Collective bodies’ rhythms, incantations.
Fruits of karma.
SAGITTARIUS
November 22 to December 21
Expansion.
Ninth great existence.
Focus necessarily represents maximum
perception. Devotee waxes, wanes.
Harmonic knowledge rooted, effective.
CAPRICORN
December 22 to January 19
Tenth
complement, combination, consummation.
Vocation-slaked. Responsibility more body politic.
Mountain zenith
blends with human heart.
AQUARIUS
January 20 to February 18
Vital openness.
Eleventh signature.
Banding friends, iconoclasts.
Inertia earthquaked.
Spiral future.
PISCES
February 19 to March 20
Conscious, unconscious.
Light threshold through dark.
Ultraviolet fantasies.
Twelfth rebirth presses upon incarnation, tone radiant.
Climax, anticlimax.