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]

Maybe tomorrow I'll see them close together, if I remember to look at the right time.

I hope you do!

(I had to reconcile myself to the fact that under no circumstances was I going to see the moment of closest separation itself, since in our skies it occurred around one in the afternoon.)