Mary Stewart Adams
Mary Stewart Adams is a Star Lore Historian and host of the weekly public radio program and podcast “The Storyteller’s Night Sky.” Mary published her first book The Star Tales of Mother Goose~For Those Who Seek the Secret Language of the Stars, in 2021, richly illustrated by her sister and long-time collaborator, artist Patricia Delisa.
As a global advocate for starry skies, Mary led the team that established the 9th International Dark Sky Park in the world in 2011, which later led to her home state of Michigan protecting 35,000 acres of state land for its natural darkness.
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In 1582 Pope Gregory XIII issued the inter gravissimas, the papal bull that reformed the calendar, which meant that 11 days were removed to accommodate the fact that the reckoning of time drifts away from the stars if we don’t account for slow precession of Earth in relation to its celestial environment. -
This week there are six stars, two planets, and the Moon making a sign in the heavens. -
This Thanksgiving week there’s a magical event happening in the morning sky, one that begs the question: when am I central to what occurs in the world around me? -
While the world of astrology is abuzz with the apparent movement of the dwarf planet Pluto, I want to talk about Andromeda, the constellation of fixed stars that is crossing the zenith this month, making this an ideal time to see it. -
The presence of darkness reveals that the hero is on the way to a greater truth. A transformation always occurs, but only after the hero undergoes an opportunity disguised as a crisis. -
A mighty week is upon us, inaugurated on Sunday by the opposition between Mars and Pluto that will occur two more times in the coming months due to Mars’ impending retrograde motion. -
This week includes the mischievous festival of Halloween, followed by All Saints Day, then All Soul’s Day. But why is it now on the calendar? -
In every two-year orbital period, Mars makes one retrograde loop that takes about 80 days, which means it travels three times through one region of sky ~ in this case, it’s in the region of Gemini twins. -
The days are ordered according to the planets in an alternating rhythm of one that is between Earth and Sun to one that is beyond Earth and Sun. -
It wasn’t the soul’s claim of purity that won him over, it was the weight of the soul’s heart that mattered.
