As long as we're breathing, we won't be leaving

[sovay]

For months I have been looking forward to the four-hundred-year great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, but the sky is as mottled with cloud as blue agate and looks unlikely to clear by evening. I am reminding myself that the planets dance whether I can see them changing partners or not, the sun returns whether it is a bright short day or a grey one, without my observation stars go nova and are born. Happy solstice! Whether it is the beginning of a new age or the last of an old year, let's keep being here to witness the light.

Comments

[sovay]

This is a nice post for me to see.

I'm glad!

The sun came out earlier, apparently didn't like what it saw, and retreated, and now there's a thick band of dark gray clouds all along the southern and western horizons. I am sad, but I've been lucky in other astronomical viewings and will, I hope and trust, be lucky again.

There are plenty of things to see in the sky.