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.

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[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.