This week there are six stars, two planets, and the Moon making a sign in the heavens.
The six stars make a pattern referred to as the Winter Hexagon, or hexagram, a six-pointed star that is deeply symbolic in this season. The two planets are our brightest: Jupiter and Venus, respectively straddling the horizons east and west at sunset. Then there’s the Moon, at crescent phase this week, meeting Venus in the West on Wednesday and setting the whole narrative in motion.
Jupiter, as Zeus, is a king of the Gods, and in ancient star wisdom, the region of Taurus, where Jupiter is visible currently, is aligned to the human larynx ~ so here we can imagine the Divine Word or Logos. In its current position Jupiter is within the Winter Hexagon, the six-pointed star sometimes referred to as the Star of David.
Then there’s Venus, goddess of love and beauty, a perpetual maiden. The Moon passes her by with an invitation, because thought the Moon is like a mighty cosmic mirror reflecting all available celestial light, it only passes by Venus at crescent phase, as if to say to the goddess: Please radiate your light directly through my realm and to the Earth.
So the king of the gods within the Winter Hexagon, activating the creative potency of the word, while the goddess of love and beauty is offered an invitation to radiate her gifts directly to the Earth.
I find something that touches an imagination on such a story in the stars in this by Emily Dickinson:
I never saw a moor,
I never saw the sea;
Yet I know how the heather looks,
And what a wave must be.
I never spoke with God,
Nor visited in heaven;
Yet certain am I of the spot
As if the chart were given.
