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

[selkie]

I saw what I would have called Jupiter in its place where it always is, before we got the Great Cloud Conjunction. Hmm.

Everything still happens so much down here on earth, but it’s nice we can look up and see planets.

[sovay]

I saw what I would have called Jupiter in its place where it always is, before we got the Great Cloud Conjunction. Hmm.

Congratulations, I believe you have witnessed a celestial event.

Everything still happens so much down here on earth, but it’s nice we can look up and see planets.

I really enjoy it.