The Storyteller's Night Sky
Each week on The Storyteller's Night Sky, Mary Stewart Adams tells us about the stories written above us in the stars. Based in Harbor Springs, she explores ancient mythologies, poetry, astrology, astronomy, and more. Listen Mondays during Morning Edition, at 6:49 and 8:49 a.m.
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There are three celestial pairings this week that are worth knowing about, and even though we might not see all of it, this is The Storyteller’s Night Sky, so we can live into these events out of our imaginations. -
The Sun arrives at its Equinox moment Monday, March 20 at 5:24 pm in the eastern time zone, entering the cardinal sign of Aries.
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On Tuesday the Moon will be full, for the last time this season. If we were to talk about it as medievalists, we wouldn’t be content to just give it a name, or speak about its phase, but to say instead that in the mid-week, the first heaven will be fully illuminated.
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This week the astrological love omens are on high alert, given that the gracious planet Venus is catching up with expansive Jupiter in the evening sky. We could just say that their meeting on Thursday will make for a great date night, and leave it at that, but I’m interested in the longer narrative.
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Forty early mornings. That’s about one and a half Moon cycles, and is regarded as the amount of time it takes to break, or to form, a habit.
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For the rest of the month Venus and Jupiter will be spectacular in the evening sky, looking west an hour after sunset, and then they’ll come into closest conjunction with one another just over two weeks from now. What’s their story?
