I'm grateful for touch
a felt sense of human warmth
palms, forearms, elbows
glide through my aromatic oiled body
letting go with each out-breath
opening inviting in the other
to come in feel their way through
the body electric
push through soften dissipate
accretions of past hurt intense encounters
of the unwelcome kind
unexpected sudden slamming against
the unbending will of the real
there is healing
in this wading through coming in
listening to what the body
is saying
parallel bio networks of entelechy
a push here reflects a pull there
acausal synchronous
they happen together
not because of but with
bearing the weight of squares, oppositions
conjunctions of celestial spheres
enjoying the ease of their sextiles trines
aspects of the heavens reflected in the mundane
I'm a descendant of my natal map's ascendant
as above so below
as inside so outside
how I do one thing is how I do everything
be cautious with the magic
each of us holds in our bodies
in our hands, in our minds,
in the tiny unseen things that surround us
without which we are not.