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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Mars is connected to the capacity for speech, while Taurus is connected to the organ for speech. -
Once you can identify the handle and ladle of the Big Dipper, you can make your way to a lot of other night sky wonders, including Comet ZTF, the green comet that has dominated the astronomy headlines for several weeks now.
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Recently I was asked: “When is the New Year no longer young?” to which I would reply: The New Year is no longer young when we close the door on what came before.
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If the skies are clear this week, we’ll see the waning gibbous Moon making a path through the stars of Leo and Virgo, rising later each night, until it gets to the eve of its last quarter on Friday the 13th; then it rises after midnight.
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In the Christian world, the holy nights of Christmas culminate this week on the 12th Night, January 5th, followed by the year’s first Full Moon on Friday, January 6th, the Feast of Epiphany, celebrated both as the arrival of the Three Kings to the birth of the Christ Child, and as the date of the Baptism of Jesus of Nazareth.
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There’s a beautiful asterism that rises up in the East after sunset every year in December, described by astronomers as the Winter Hexagon.
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The big news in astronomy this week is the occultation of Mars by the Full Moon on Wednesday evening, December 7 at 11:08 pm ~ visible for most of the United States.
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The last month of the year begins this week, and in grand, poetic style, the planet of love and beauty, which spent most of the year as our morning star, and has of late been awash in the light of the Sun, will soon emerge in her evening gown, adorning the end of the day and the end of the year with celestial brilliance.
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In that great journey of the stars through space About the mighty, all-directing Sun, The pallid, faithful Moon, has been the one Companion of the Earth.
