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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[larryhammer]

I've been watching the dance for a few weeks, since a camping trip when I realized that I didn't recognize the brightest star close to Jupiter and had to look up what it was. Last night the sky was nicely clear, after a warm day in the mid-70s, for a nice viewing.

Of more interest to me actually is that Venus, after a few months of brightness in the bathroom window during the pre-dawn has now dropped below the palm trees and may now be out of Luciferous mode. Should be up in the evening in a few weeks, I think.

I've also been watching Mars slowly move up the eastern sky, so that it's now almost overhead at sunset.