Ruth, I should have been clearer earlier:
venicebard said:
It is the throat taurus, in breathing (intermediate tzaddi) and in swallowing (tzaddi-sofit), but was moved to aquarius to indicate that the primordial wind-in-one's-face (air triad pointing back or in) was changed, in astrology, to the one pointing down (primordial water, according to tradition surrounding the Star of David).
Based on both tree-calendar and phonetic considerations, I take the simples in the order samekh-tzaddi-cheyt-vav-ayin-qof-teyt-heh-zayin-yod-lamedh-nun: samekh is shaped like the head, cheyt like the shoulders, vav in Phoenician and earlier was a breast pouring forth milk, and so on. As such, they show a definite 'code' when translated into alef-bet order, as follows.
Taken as a round with aries both 1st and last (i.e. 13th, whence the 13
middot or divine attributes, the first 10 of which are Sefirot since they reach to where
we have gotten to, namely straight back or capricorn, meaning the direction
back towards oneself), the last four remain on their triads, whereas the first four take the primordial elements of their respective triads to the triads on which they reside in astrology: aries is in both groups because fire still points up (like flame) towards aries-the-head in astrology but the other three have changed triads (you can check this out yourself, based on the first 4 signs generating the
primordial triads in nature's order, fire-air-water-earth).
The bottom five (those below the horizon) move elements to their places at the four quarters in common ritual (fire-south, air-east, water-west, earth-north), with the proviso that those in manifested nature (from horizon without
cancer to straight down
libra) cart off the elements these signs are
in nature, namely those wherein each triad manifests in the element following (fire in air, air in water, etc.). So ayin carries
air from leo to the east, capricorn (where the round ascends), and so on. Now the bottom half of the round is the satiric half to a bard (winter-spring being heroic by contrast), and sure enough there is here a joke on behalf of those who think touch and smell
two senses. For heh takes earth from its original triad (which points where earthly body points, ahead), in honor of
smell (the nose taking its form from said triad), to aries or north (up being north
on average for humans), when teyt has already taken earth from libra (straight down, where we contact earth) to leo (whose triad points north) in honor of
touch (being where we touch earth). Cracks
me up (both are surface contact, smell simply being where it is most focused).
On the Cauldron of surroundings, then, meaning the half-circle of the same height in which the round of simples sits, calendar-order yields D-T-K-
M-G-P-B (from orig. P-T-K-R-G-D-B, with B-P on its rim or 'lip' and guttural R at its gullet), and teyt and mem both appear to resemble the legs folded under one when seated in meditation, since the Cauldron is on the round centered atop the head
of one who is seated in meditation and the round of the simples
is that seated torso (hence
both libras are one's folded legs, in a sense). Mem (its intermediate form) is standing in for reysh here, which has deserted its station (elsewhere but Hebrew and perhaps French) to seek the top (or tip) of the round (or tongue) as Arabic or Scots rolled R. But mem-sofit (final form) is the Great Round in which these other two are, namely that centered atop the head of
standing Adam Qadmon, that is, the height of the bunch of grapes Aesop's fox could
not reach (being sweetness "mm" of muin the vine). These
three rounds, by the way, are the three mothers, for each has others
in its belly, this because in the belly of the third is the fourth (wheel of Ezekiel's vision), the round of the womb itself.
Hope this helps some.