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This week in the sky it’s all about time, with Saturn peeking up over the eastern edge of the world just as the Sun sets.
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Though this week's Full Moon on August 11 will diminish an outward experience of meteors, it bears a unique opportunity for knowing what the hero finds within.
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Historically, an understanding of the stars can be divided into three periods: from the ancient era of humanity to the scientific revolution of the middle ages; from that revolution to the 20th century; and from the 20th century to the present.
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Recently there’s been a lot of buzz about the James Webb Space Telescope that was launched late last year and has recently sent back images that boggle the mind when it comes to conceiving of the vast distances of space and time that it seems to reveal.
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It might seem like a contradiction for us in the Northern Hemisphere that the Earth is moving furthest away from the Sun just we enter our warm Summer season, but so it is ~ we reach aphelion on July 4th this year.
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The early 20th century Austrian philosopher and esotericist Rudolf Steiner once wrote: The more abundantly the harmony of the cosmos fills the soul, the more peace and harmony there will be on the earth. This idea is quite different from one that I commonly hear, which is that the earth and, consequently, humanity as a whole, is an insignificant speck in the vastness of space.
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The Moon comes to perigee, or closest to the Earth, in every cycle, but only once each year will it come to Full Phase while it's at perigee. The several Moon's leading up to the closest Full Moon are commonly referred to as "super Moons," like this month's Strawberry Moon June 14.
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Astronomers are predicting a meteor shower overnight May 30, maybe. But for the Storyteller’s Night Sky, this is a prime opportunity for storytelling, whether the shower happens or not, and here’s why.
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This week, Wednesday marks the 219th anniversary of the birth of the American essayist, poet, and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, and given that the Moon is waning through the dawn and approaching Venus as morning star at the same time, it’s fitting to consider Emerson’s essay on “Love.”