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// POMANDER April 26–May 2, 2026 Item [1]: Antique silver pomander, South Kensington Museum (date unknown) Engraving from The Art of Perfumery The ring serves as pendant to a lady's girdle. When the cap unscrews, the pomander falls into six cores, each hinged to a central column. A slide opens at the angle of each core for the insertion of fragrant powders, camphor, vinegar on sponge. What you carry against your body, what opens only when you want it to, what keeps the world at a distance through scent. Item [2]: "How queer, the Hindus don't feed their cows although they call the cow 'mother'!" — Mulk Raj Anand, Untouchable (1935) Item [3]: "In the absence of touching and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow touch starved." — Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses (1990) The week separates what you call holy from what you actually feed. What you wear close to the skin might be keeping you from contact. The pomander swings open when you least expect it—all six chambers at once. Here, I begin my "pocket poem" weekly missives. Each one is informed by what I gathered the week before and the astro-weather I am reading for the week ahead. Below ⤵️ a screenshot of myself before a private astrology reading, recent, in paisley. |
KP Kaszubowski
weekly astro-archetypes horoscopes + occasional book development resources
ASTRO-ARCHETYPE OF THE WEEK // THE SURVIVOR September 6 - 12, 2026 Item [1]: The Svalbard Global Seed Vault: carved into Norwegian permafrost, holds a duplicate of nearly every crop seed on earth against catastrophic loss. Item [2]: The 2015 Aleppo withdrawal: the vault's first-ever withdrawal, made after Syria's own seed bank was destroyed by war. Two years later, survivors sent new duplicates back north. Item [3]: W.S. Merwin's palm forest: the poet spent decades replanting eighteen acres...
Hi! I have a Zoom room that opens at 7am CT, weekdays, between now and the equinox (Sept 23 — maybe longer, depending on my energy). I am using this to finally get my medieval war novel down on the page, and have successfully drafted the first chapter so far! (Messily, illegibly......) I am calling this experiment in time-pressure COUNTER-GLOAMING, and it's for getting our manuscripts written. [[ZOOM LINK]](https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86211694880?pwd=atEeeTincNWkilbU4wQinSYVU4WEdV.1) — link...
ASTRO-ARCHETYPE OF THE WEEK // THE FREE SKATE August 30 - September 5, 2026 Item [1]: How Skating Acquired and Lost Its "Figure" article Until 1990, competitive figure skating required something called compulsory figures: hours spent tracing prescribed patterns into the ice before a skater was ever allowed to perform. Judges checked the tracings afterward, on foot, for wobble. After these requirements were released, skating was called "free." But the free skate had restraints. It's four...