Mary Stewart Adams
Mary Stewart Adams is a Star Lore Historianand 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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There are three things that draw my attention to this week’s Full Moon, which occurs on Thursday, January 25 around noon. -
With last week’s New Moon as the first of the New Year, it’s time to look at what everybody else is doing. This week my eye is on Venus. -
Solstice, which means “the standing still of the Sun,” is like the pause in human breathing, between inbreath and outbreath, outbreath to inbreath. -
The Geminid Meteor Shower was first observed in 1862, by an astronomer in England. At the time, the American Civil War was underway, so we could say that the shower was born during wartime. -
At this time of year the asterism of the Winter Hexagon rises up in the East after sunset, six bright stars that create the pattern of a six-pointed star, led by Sirius, the brightest star in our sky. -
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Legend holds that Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was observing Mars when he was struck with the inspiration that the Earth was orbiting the sun. -
The traditional observance of All Saint’s and All Soul’s Day happens Wednesday and Thursday this week, which means to mark the halfway point in the fading season, when all at once we’re closer to the end than we are to the beginning. -
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