Chasing after the sun as it sets lower and lower on the horizon each night, the stars we have come to know and love all summer long depart, and we know Winter is upon us!

If we have been vigilant sky watchers, we have paid particular attention these past few months to the happenings in Capricorn with Jupiter and Saturn passing over the teapot-shaped asterism known as the Archer.

Jupiter and Saturn have helped us scribe the ecliptic (the path of the sun) and the Archer and the Scorpion have held between them the pathway of the Milky Way, the center line of which we call the Galactic Equator. Read More

Halloween, 5000 years ago, in Scotland, Ireland and Britain was called Samhain (pronounced “Saa-wen”). This Old European, Iron-Age, Gaelic festival honored the end of the harvest and the beginning of the darker days of the year.

The Celtic day began at sunset and ended the next sunset marking both Oct 31 and Nov 1st as the time of Hallows when the veils between the worlds of life and beyond are the thinnest. This is a portal beyond everyday reality. Halloween is both an ending and a beginning point–a liminal threshold.

The Full Moon in Taurus is closest to the earth on this 2020 Halloween night and will appear within one degree of the star Hamal, the brightest star in the Ram Constellation. This star marks the Ram’s forehead—the place the ram directs the butting of its horns from the power of its consciousness. Read More