Venus, Jupiter, and the Perseids ~ Here a New Life Begins
The Perseid Meteor Shower comes to its peak overnight Tuesday this week (August 12-13), when the Earth passes through the […]
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Tennyson’s Telescope
As a calendarist, I love the convergence of things that takes place very year in the first week of August: […]
Venus, Uranus, and Pleiades Meet Friday
The fact that January 1st is fixed on the calendar as the first day of the new year is due […]
Emily Dickinson Week Among the Stars
There’s an ancient Greek myth that it was the Muses who discovered the letters in the cosmos ~ the consonants […]
Meteors and Mother Goose
There’s a lot of history unfolding in connection with the sky this month, including the meteor shower that’s happening right […]
Neptune into Aries~Ours if Our Hearts Are Wise
When I was a kid my brothers and I used to do this thing where we would stand in a […]
Pure and Prepared to Leap Up to the Stars
This week brings the first New Moon of the New Year, Wednesday, January 29th, which marks the Year of the […]
Everything Old is New Again ~ Or is it?
This week the night sky is visually stunning, and astrologically dynamic. It begins this Monday morning at sunrise, January 20, […]
For a Celestial New year
The New Year started with Mercury leading the charge as morning star, and just recently, the waxing crescent Moon swept […]
The 12 Days of Christmas Begin with Christmas Eve
Once the long night of the solstice has commenced, it’s appropriate to quietly reflect on the year past and to […]