AGRIPPA’S MAGIC SQUARE #15 SATURN

 

Here is the Earth card

In the first ladder rung

  A moisty/earthy poem

 Saturn has sung

Protector, Grounder,

Earth personified

I daydream about

Life underground

Once believed to be ruled

By Hades and Persephone

Littering literature with

Drama and comedy

Dealing with all the dead

No matter good or bad

But we see the true underworld

Earth is like the Ocean

Hosting sources of varied life

Dirt and roots and worms

Delicious foods and yes

Water in all forms rife

Gifting every species

Above and below the ground

Including minerals and ores

Iron and crystals and

Diamonds and gold

Volcanoes grumbling

As fires burn

And tectonic plates shift

As in school we learned

Skeletons and Ashes

Those still loved forever asleep

Our tears into grass and sand seep

As we remember our beloveds and weep

What a place, below the surface

Grass and dirt merely shallow

As above, so below with

Saturn quite generous

With never-ending benevolence…

 

© 2023 Clarissa Simmens (ViataMaja)

IMAGE: Saturn 4 in the morning greenhouse