The Storyteller's Night Sky

Only once every 12 years will the Olympian King of the Gods stand beside the lead star of the zodiac with the Moon sweeping by on Valentine’s Day, and it’s happening this year.

As our morning star, Venus is sowing love and beauty into the world, while the Moon sweeps by as a thin sliver of itself, and Mars fades from view.

Botticelli's  Primavera comes poetically to life overhead this week when Moon meets Spica at cross-quarter time in the morning sky.

Musings on the meaning of first Full Moon of the new year.

Venus, Mercury, and Mars cross through the morning Milky Way, bringing to mind the inspiring words of German mystic poet Novalis.

At the stillness of Solstice, Mercury slips in between Earth and Sun, listening in the year's midnight.

The Geminid Meteor Shower peaks overnight Wednesday to Thursday, inspiring images from “The Paradise” of Dante’s  Divine Comedy into the season.

The Moon and Venus are spectacular at dawn this week, with a fairy tale tucked in besides.

As the northern part of the world leans toward the dark, the night lights up with a magic tale of the boy-hero Jack, fortifying us all for the way ahead.

This week the mystery of the sky is in truly seeing Venus, carried through the dawn's early light in the arms of abundance.

This week Mars has its biennial meeting with the Sun, just after the anniversary of Kepler's death on November 15 in 1630.

The planet Venus rides across the dawn in a chariot of the Moon later this week, a spectacular sight that lends itself to easily finding the goddess of love and beauty lingering in the East even after the Sun rises.

This week's seasonal cross quarter coincides with Jupiter's annual opposition with with Sun. What shines through between them?

The Moon joins Neptune Pisces midweek, a province of dreams if ever there was one, offering a lullaby as though it would put us all to sleep with the season.

The Orion Meteor Shower is active now and peaks October 21-22

First New Moon of Autumn will cause an annular eclipse and calls to mind the greater mystery rites of Eleusis

By this weekend, Venus returns to the same position she held in early July, when the planet was visible in the evening sky near the star Regulus. What now?

In the northern hemisphere there are five things overhead every night: a king, a queen, two bears, and a dragon. This week, the Full Moon draws attention in the Storyteller’s Night Sky to the king and the dragon.

Autumn Equinox occurs in the early hours this Saturday, heralding the full harvest a sense of balance.

Dante's Moon this Thursday carries Venus and the love of wisdom to a striving humanity.

Venus resumes direct motion in the next stage of the quest

This weeks brings summer's last Full Moon, Venus' direct motion, and the season's happily ever after.

Saturn is at opposition with the sun August 27, bearing a message from our future destiny, near the star Fomalhaut.

In the midst of this season's meteor shower magic, the monarchs take flight, fortifying us with strength and beauty for the seasons ahead.

The spectacular show in the sky this week shines a light on the celestial lineage of Zeus and two of his children