The Storyteller's Night Sky

Each month the Moon greets every planet, modulating the mood as it goes. This week, it meets Jupiter, Mars, and Mercury.

The astrological omens this week suggest now's the time for sloughing off the dead weight and for moving out of stagnant situations.

Sun, Mercury, Earth, and Moon align at square angle to Uranus while Jupiter and Saturn engage in the same, and all of this at Blue Moon Monday, August 19, 2024

In August the Milky Way is like the brilliantly beaded belt of a sparkling garment woven out of stars and flung across the night.

This week a date of historic and literary note rolls around: “Lammas Eve,” which is the night before we’re halfway through the summer. 

Venus emerges as our evenings star very soon, and will grace the western horizon until mid-March 2025. What can it mean?

All the talk this week is about the great meeting between the red planet Mars and the eccentric gas giant Uranus, which coincides with quick changes and reversals, sudden upsets, unforeseen events or even new insights stirred all of sudden, breaking in like revelation.

Earth comes to its aphelion Friday, when it's furthest away from the Sun, the same day as the first New Moon of summer, revealing the social harmony inherent in the cosmos.

All in one week the Moon checks in with all the outer planets, and this as Saturn begins its retrograde.

This week it’s all about the Sun and its solstice, but it’s also about the Moon, which comes to Full Phase the day after solstice, placing an accent mark on what happens with the  standing still of the Sun  that marks the beginning of summer.

The messenger of the gods slips into hiding beyond the Sun Friday, while the first heaven is flung open wide by a growing Moon ~ time to heed the whispers of  the merry wanderer of the night.

Thursday, May 30th is the Feast of Joan of Arc. Arcturus is rising overhead from the East, the star of the shepherdess, beside the crown she would use to crown the King of France, who was nearly toppled, like Hercules, from his rightful place.

Thursday's Full Moon blocks the star Antares, the rival of Mars, which means it's our turn to sculpt the red planet’s warrior forces.

The Moon returned to its eclipse point Sunday, then moves through its dark phase, encountering the secrets of Venus before it comes New Tuesday night.

The season turns toward its end on April 30, a turning that was considered an act of the divine in days gone by, a lifting of the veil to release built-up mischief. 

Not to be outdone by our own star and its recent eclipse drama, a couple of stars in Corona Borealis are cooking up their own fantastic display when they explode sometime soon 

Jupiter and Uranus have a once-every-14-years meeting this week. Finding its meaning with the help of the Moon.

The thrill of experience that defies our sense of the immutable

The beloveds Moon and Venus meet in the midday at eclipse, and so begins their new story.

When the world becomes the mirror upon which the gods cast the shadow of the future.

The Moon waxes toward Full Phase among the stars of Leo this week, gathering up the kingly forces of the Lion before eclipse on March 25th. 

The final resolution of improbable love begins Wednesday when the Moon meets Jupiter in the great adventure.

Venus faints into the light of the Sun this month, witnessed by Moon on Thursday, looking east at dawn.

At midnight on Leap Day, the waning gibbous Moon moves from Virgo to Libra, where it draws near the star Zubenelgenubi, with an invitation to find life's richest treasure.

There are 40 days from the Feb 24 Full Moon at apogee to the April 8 Total Solar Eclipse at New Moon, for our gradually growing wholeness.