arx caeli

10th astrological place, poetic

arce sed in caeli, qua summa acclivia finem inveniunt, qua principium declivia sumunt, culminaque insurgunt occasus inter et ortus suspenduntque suo libratum examine mundum, asserit hanc Cytherea sibi per sidera sedem et velut in facie mundi sua collocat ora, per quae humana regit.

‘But in the citadel of the sky, where the rising curve attains its consummation, and the downward slope makes its beginning, and the summit towers midway between orient and Occident and holds the universe poised in its balance, here does the Cytherean claim her abode among the stars, placing in the very face of heaven, as it were, her beauteous features, wherewith she rules the affairs of men.’