The Storyteller's Night Sky

In its current retrograde motion, Venus is looking into the secret in human hearts, gathering them up for carrying to the core with us, when it meets the Sun March 22nd.

This week the line up from west to east after sunset is Mercury, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter, and Mars, with Moon joining the parade on Friday. It begs the question: What’s lining up in our own lives?  

The Sun is moving through Aquarius stars, where all the star names have to do with good fortune, hidden treasure, and wishes that come true, while the Moon is sweeping past Spica, the star of abundance. It’s worth paying attention to this scene now, and for the next several months.

Venus is moving among the stars of Pisces, which is associated with the forces of dawn. When Venus is there, deep mysteries of the heart surface and wake. Astrologically Venus is exalted in Pisces, where the planet reaches its highest potential. And it’s there on Valentine’s Day.

The Moon was but a chin of gold A night or two ago, And now she turns her perfect face Upon the world below.

The Year of the Snake, the star wisdom of Dante, and the Storyteller's Night Sky, which will continue on podcast, though this is the final episode for Interlochen Public Radio.

The night sky is visually stunning right now, and astrologically dynamic, especially when the Sun rises with Pluto on Monday morning, January 20, 2025, followed by the parade of planets across the night.

At a Mars'opposition the time is right to repair a mistake, to right a wrong, or to do something you’ve left undone. Knowledge and wisdom can grow into miracles out of the close confrontation with Mars!

The New Year started with Mercury leading the charge as morning star, and just recently, the waxing crescent Moon swept passed Venus and Saturn, on its way to Full Phase and an occultation of Mars, where it finds Mars moving retrograde opposite the dwarf planet Pluto. So, what else is going on in the stars this year?

Once the long night of the solstice has commenced, it’s appropriate to 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.

At dawn on Wednesday the Moon sweeps past Mars in retrograde where it prepares a place in the cradle of the heart for all who are tuned in.

Before the 16th century calendar reform, Friday the 13th would've been Christmas Eve. The Geminid Meteor Shower peaks overnight the 13th, and it's worth noting despite nearly Full Moon.

There are six stars, two planets, and the Moon making a sign in the heavens right now: the stars that form the Winter Hexagon; Jupiter and Venus, respectively straddling the horizons east and west at sunset; and the Moon, when it meets Venus on Wednesday

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?

3rd century Neoplatonist Plotinus wrote:  The universe extends as far as the soul goes, but no further. The boundaries of its existence are determined by the degree to which, in going forth, it has the soul to keep it in being .

Friday's Full Moon occurs near Uranus, which means that now we begin anew the great tale of human becoming.

A mighty week is upon us, inaugurated 11.3.24 by the opposition between Mars and Pluto that will occur two more times in the coming months due to Mars’ impending retrograde motion.

This week is the seasonal cross quarter, or halfway point, which includes the mischievous festival of Halloween, followed by All Saints Day, then All Soul’s Day, and then the several weeks of honoring loved ones who have died. How does the soul know?

Moon passes by Mars among Gemini stars this week, where the red planet will soon make its biennial retrograde loop, which finds it passing through these stars several times from now until April 2025.

A calendar is a brilliant mechanism formulated over centuries of sky watching that works with the magic of a time machine~tiny black boxes aligned in neat rows, each row divided into seven parts, each part named in accord with a classical planet, and all in a particular order that reveals a deep wisdom, allowing us to access the past, stay attuned to the present, and plan for the future

The Moon catches Venus in the great golden scale of Libra, where the goddess of love and beauty witnesses the measure of love abiding in the human heart.

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet.

It's Harvest Moon Wednesday, Sept 17 which begs the question: what is my harvest this year? On Michigan's Beaver Island, they have an answer!

A fascinating signature of the Mysteries is appearing in the sky right now, involving the planets Saturn and Mercury and the constellations Aquarius and Leo.

The last New Moon of Summer on 2 September 2024 prepares for the transition from outer light to inner radiance that happens at Equinox later this month.