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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The Feast of the Annunciation is observed in the Christian calendar on March 25 each year, the date of this year’s vernal full moon. Not only that, the moon will also be eclipsed.
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The spring equinox comes our way this week. It’s striking when the first Full Moon of the Spring is eclipsed, because this is the Moon that is used in most cultural and religious traditions of the Northern Hemisphere to determine the dates for the Spring festivals of renewal.
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On Wednesday, the crescent Moon will appear beside Jupiter in the evening sky, two hours after sunset looking west. And so begins this week’s grand adventure.
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This year, March is the month when the planet Venus, as morning star, gives way to the glare of the Sun.
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The waning gibbous Moon will move from the region of Virgo stars to Libra, where, on Friday morning, it will be near the star Zubenelgenubi.
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To say that the moon will be full on Saturday, Feb. 24, is a simple statement of astronomical observation, and yet, it’s so much more.