Mary Stewart Adams

This week the ancient constellation of the kneeler, known later as Hercules, sweeps high overhead, bearing a mystery across the sky.

This week, there’s an annular solar eclipse, on Thursday, and the fairy tale of “The White Doe” is perfect for imagining what the eclipse brings.

The Nodes of the Moon are the two points in space where the plane of the Moon’s orbit around the Earth intersects the plane of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun.

The planet Venus moves close to the star Spica this week, where the star is held in the arms of Virgo, the maiden. What can it mean? Let’s start with the…

On Sunday the planet Mercury completed its retrograde and resumed its direct, or eastward motion. This coming weekend, the planet Mars will do the same…

After last Saturday’s New Moon, we entered the sacred sequence of days leading up to the 7th Night of the 7th Moon in the Chinese tradition, which brings…

The Perseid Meteor Shower reaches its peak just after New Moon this weekend, which means that if the weather cooperates, the conditions are ideal for a…

We’re halfway through the Summer, and now the meteor showers begin! In August the daylight noticeably wanes, but as compensation, the starlight gains, and…

The end of July marks the halfway point in the season, known traditionally as “cross quarter day.” But before we get to that point this year, we pass…

The story I really want to tell this week is about the early 20th century American socialite and art collector Isabella Stewart Gardner, so I’m going to…