"Our magazine was merely an overture
To the night and the party. I had predicted
Disastrous expense: a planetary
Certainty, according to Prospero's book.
Jupiter and the full moon conjunct
Opposed Venus, Disastrous expense
According to that book. Especially for me.
The conjunction combust my natal Sun,
Venus pinned exact on my mid-heaven."
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"That conjunction, conjunct my Sun, conjunct
With your ruling Mars. And Chaucer
Would have pointed to that day's Sun in the Fish
Conjunct your Ascendant exactly
Opposite my Neptune and fixed
In my tenth House of good and evil fame.
......That day the solar system married us
Whether we knew it or not."
Ted Hughes, Poem to Sylia Plath, 1956
Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, 1956