What's going on in the night sky right now? Find out with Star Lore Historian Mary Stewart Adams, who narrates the stories written across the sky each week in order to restore the mythic grandeur of knowing the stars. Here, ancient mythologies are woven together with poetry, astrology, contemporary astronomy, and the new star wisdom astrosophy, to reveal the brilliant story of now.
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Each month the Moon greets every planet, modulating the mood as it goes. This week, it meets Jupiter, Mars, and Mercury.
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Blue Moon, Saturn Moon, Perigee Moon All in One
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The astrological omens this week suggest now's the time for sloughing off the dead weight and for moving out of stagnant situations.
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Sun, Mercury, Earth, and Moon align at square angle to Uranus while Jupiter and Saturn engage in the same, and all of this at Blue Moon Monday, August 19, 2024
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In August the Milky Way is like the brilliantly beaded belt of a sparkling garment woven out of stars and flung across the night.
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The Tragic Romance of Summer's Halfway Point
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This week a date of historic and literary note rolls around: “Lammas Eve,” which is the night before we’re halfway through the summer.
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Venus emerges as our evenings star very soon, and will grace the western horizon until mid-March 2025. What can it mean?
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All the talk this week is about the great meeting between the red planet Mars and the eccentric gas giant Uranus, which coincides with quick changes and reversals, sudden upsets, unforeseen events or even new insights stirred all of sudden, breaking in like revelation.
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Earth comes to its aphelion Friday, when it's furthest away from the Sun, the same day as the first New Moon of summer, revealing the social harmony inherent in the cosmos.
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All in one week the Moon checks in with all the outer planets, and this as Saturn begins its retrograde.
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This week it’s all about the Sun and its solstice, but it’s also about the Moon, which comes to Full Phase the day after solstice, placing an accent mark on what happens with the standing still of the Sun that marks the beginning of summer.
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The messenger of the gods slips into hiding beyond the Sun Friday, while the first heaven is flung open wide by a growing Moon ~ time to heed the whispers of the merry wanderer of the night.
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Thursday, May 30th is the Feast of Joan of Arc. Arcturus is rising overhead from the East, the star of the shepherdess, beside the crown she would use to crown the King of France, who was nearly toppled, like Hercules, from his rightful place.
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Thursday's Full Moon blocks the star Antares, the rival of Mars, which means it's our turn to sculpt the red planet’s warrior forces.
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The Moon returned to its eclipse point Sunday, then moves through its dark phase, encountering the secrets of Venus before it comes New Tuesday night.
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The season turns toward its end on April 30, a turning that was considered an act of the divine in days gone by, a lifting of the veil to release built-up mischief.
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Not to be outdone by our own star and its recent eclipse drama, a couple of stars in Corona Borealis are cooking up their own fantastic display when they explode sometime soon
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Jupiter and Uranus have a once-every-14-years meeting this week. Finding its meaning with the help of the Moon.
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The thrill of experience that defies our sense of the immutable
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The beloveds Moon and Venus meet in the midday at eclipse, and so begins their new story.
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When the world becomes the mirror upon which the gods cast the shadow of the future.
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The Moon waxes toward Full Phase among the stars of Leo this week, gathering up the kingly forces of the Lion before eclipse on March 25th.
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The final resolution of improbable love begins Wednesday when the Moon meets Jupiter in the great adventure.
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Venus faints into the light of the Sun this month, witnessed by Moon on Thursday, looking east at dawn.
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At midnight on Leap Day, the waning gibbous Moon moves from Virgo to Libra, where it draws near the star Zubenelgenubi, with an invitation to find life's richest treasure.
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There are 40 days from the Feb 24 Full Moon at apogee to the April 8 Total Solar Eclipse at New Moon, for our gradually growing wholeness.
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Only once every 12 years will the Olympian King of the Gods stand beside the lead star of the zodiac with the Moon sweeping by on Valentine’s Day, and it’s happening this year.
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As our morning star, Venus is sowing love and beauty into the world, while the Moon sweeps by as a thin sliver of itself, and Mars fades from view.
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Botticelli's Primavera comes poetically to life overhead this week when Moon meets Spica at cross-quarter time in the morning sky.
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Musings on the meaning of first Full Moon of the new year.
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Venus, Mercury, and Mars cross through the morning Milky Way, bringing to mind the inspiring words of German mystic poet Novalis.
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At the stillness of Solstice, Mercury slips in between Earth and Sun, listening in the year's midnight.
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The Geminid Meteor Shower peaks overnight Wednesday to Thursday, inspiring images from “The Paradise” of Dante’s Divine Comedy into the season.
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The Moon and Venus are spectacular at dawn this week, with a fairy tale tucked in besides.
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As the northern part of the world leans toward the dark, the night lights up with a magic tale of the boy-hero Jack, fortifying us all for the way ahead.
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This week the mystery of the sky is in truly seeing Venus, carried through the dawn's early light in the arms of abundance.
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This week Mars has its biennial meeting with the Sun, just after the anniversary of Kepler's death on November 15 in 1630.
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The planet Venus rides across the dawn in a chariot of the Moon later this week, a spectacular sight that lends itself to easily finding the goddess of love and beauty lingering in the East even after the Sun rises.
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This week's seasonal cross quarter coincides with Jupiter's annual opposition with with Sun. What shines through between them?
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The Moon joins Neptune Pisces midweek, a province of dreams if ever there was one, offering a lullaby as though it would put us all to sleep with the season.
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The Orion Meteor Shower is active now and peaks October 21-22
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First New Moon of Autumn will cause an annular eclipse and calls to mind the greater mystery rites of Eleusis
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By this weekend, Venus returns to the same position she held in early July, when the planet was visible in the evening sky near the star Regulus. What now?
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In the northern hemisphere there are five things overhead every night: a king, a queen, two bears, and a dragon. This week, the Full Moon draws attention in the Storyteller’s Night Sky to the king and the dragon.
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Autumn Equinox occurs in the early hours this Saturday, heralding the full harvest a sense of balance.
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Dante's Moon this Thursday carries Venus and the love of wisdom to a striving humanity.
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Venus resumes direct motion in the next stage of the quest
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This weeks brings summer's last Full Moon, Venus' direct motion, and the season's happily ever after.
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Remaining True Our Ideals with Saturn at Opposition
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Saturn is at opposition with the sun August 27, bearing a message from our future destiny, near the star Fomalhaut.
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In the midst of this season's meteor shower magic, the monarchs take flight, fortifying us with strength and beauty for the seasons ahead.
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The spectacular show in the sky this week shines a light on the celestial lineage of Zeus and two of his children
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