The Storyteller's Night Sky

And so it is with “The Storyteller’s Night Sky”: after over 13 years airing on Interlochen Public Radio, this will be the final episode here.

This week the night sky is visually stunning, and astrologically dynamic.

This week the story in the stars is all about Mars, which came closest to the Earth on Sunday, will be blocked by the Moon just past Full Phase on Monday, and then makes its opposition with the Sun on Wednesday.

It won't be as dramatic a year, celestially, but there are still plenty of things to watch out for in the stars in 2025.

Once the long night of the solstice has commenced, it’s appropriate to quietly reflect on the year past and to anticipate the year ahead, not just for a moment, but for the full 12 days of Christmas, which begin with the birth of inner light on Christmas Eve, at midnight.

Looking into the sky this solstice week there’s a lovely celestial set up going on that can support a mood of inner stillness, one that mimics the apparent stillness of the sun when it comes to its solstice moment in the early hours on Saturday the 21st.

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.