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The planet Saturn has resumed direct motion after five months of journeying retrograde, or westward against the background of stars, and because Jupiter is still going westward in its motion, the two gas giants are moving slightly closer together right now.
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The Moon was Full on Sunday, which means that all week long, it’ll be a waning gibbous, and I just have to say that one of my favorite celestial phenomena is the waning gibbous Moon when it rises into autumn skies.
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Now it’s October, and there’s a dynamic cosmic positioning happening all month.
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The Moon was New on Sunday, first New Moon of the new season, and by Thursday, it will have “shed her silver seasons four upon the night,” as John Keats would say.
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This will be a week of our needing agility, on an astronomical scale, and here’s why...
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This week marks the anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, 701 years ago on September 14th in 1321. And because the planet Mars is beautifully positioned among the stars of Taurus right now, I want to consider what happens in the Paradise of Dante’s Divine Comedy when he passes through the Mars sphere.
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This week it’s worth getting up for the ceremony of dawn when the crescent Moon crowns Venus as the morning star.
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The Moon came to New Phase early Saturday morning, and this week, we’ll see it as a beautiful waxing crescent in the West after sunset, making its way among the stars that are below the celestial equator.
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Mars and Venus for Sweet Dreams and Health and Quiet Breathing: This week on Storyteller's Night SkyThis week Mars comes closest to the Bull’s Eye star Aldebaran in Taurus, while Venus sweeps past Regulus, at the heart of the Lion, all of which will be seen in the morning sky.
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This week in the sky it’s all about time, with Saturn peeking up over the eastern edge of the world just as the Sun sets.