The Descent of the Stars Part 2

Now behold the choirs of angels.

Water bearing or capricious,

Are beholden to lord Saturn.

Standing at the yearly doorway,

Bringing to us death and rising.

Time of light and time of darkness,

Time of year when light is bleakest.

Sol dies not though leaden tempered,

But begins the yearly rising.

Showing yearly what our great Lord

Did when tomb could never hold him.

Archer and the Fish surround them,

Ruled by Jupiter the kingly,

See not fish but Lord of fishers,

Seeking souls that he should save them,

From the death that had befallen.

See the Archer, sign of Eros,

Image of the great Creator,

Bringing order out of Chaos,

Striking down the great Behemoth,

Water battle with the sea snake,

The Leviathan, that monster,

That did terrify the waters,

And cast Ziz from out of heaven,

That had blackened star and moonlight.

Scorpion and then the Ram,

These are under Martial guidance.

Scorpion the great divider,

Poison is he ever bringing,

To the detriment of many,

As the Snake mankind deceiving.

Then remember Isaac, promised

To the sacrifice demanded,

‘Til was made the great replacement,

In a Ram so fitly coming.

Blood descending, life uplifting.

Bull and Scales around them rising,

One is Stubborn, other Equal,

Under Venus, bringing nature.

Stubborn nature oft downbringing,

Far from he who would redeem us,

Bringing balance with his great Love,

So that we may not be wanting,

“Tekel” shall not be our writing.

Twins and Virgin, subtle, coming,

Under Hermes find their meaning.

Single face in different being,

Mirror of the One as Triple,

And the Three in One as gathered,

And the One of double nature,

Fully human fully Godhead,

Born on Earth of Virgin holy,

Bringing hope of our salvation.

Crab the next, Orion slaying,

Under Luna’s silver lighting.

All the earthen creatures crying

For salvation from the hunter.

Unlooked for the cure is sended,

The faith of all the evidence bringing.

Last the mighty Solar Lion,

Light of Gold the dark defeating,

Leaden weight now turned to lightness,

World remakéd, death defeated.