The article below might interest you – it came all the way from Australia – isn’t technology wonderful?
Hope your skies allow you to see it – I mean weatherwise. It has to portend good things – probably spiritual ones in the face of all the Pluto stuff going on at the beginning of Capricorn on the solstice point. The three benefics coming together to grace our visible heavens – this is what got the Babylonian/Chaldean Astrologers going 5,000 years ago – and here it still happens to us now. Wow!!!
Blessings, Dawne xx
A spectacular conjunction of Venus, Jupiter and the crescent Moon!
Go outside tonight when the horizon is turning red and the zenith is cobalt-blue and look southwest. You’ll see Venus and Jupiter beaming side-by-side through the twilight. Glittering Venus is absolutely brilliant and Jupiter is nearly as bright as Venus. On Nov. 29th the two planets will be less than 3 degrees apart and you’ll think to yourself “surely it can’t get any better than this.”
And then it will. On Nov. 30th a slender 10% crescent Moon leaps up from the horizon to join the show. The delicate crescent hovering just below Venus-Jupiter will have cameras clicking around the world. Dec. 1st is the best night of all. The now crescent Moon moves in closer to form an isosceles triangle with Venus and Jupiter as opposing vertices. The three brightest objects in the night sky will be gathered so tightly together, you can hide them all behind your thumb held at arm’s length.
The celestial triangle will be visible from all parts of the world, even from light-polluted cities. People in New York and Hong Kong will see it just as clearly as astronomers watching from remote mountaintops. Only cloudy weather or a midnight sun (sorry Antarctica!) can spoil the show.
Although you can see the triangle with naked eyes–indeed, you can’t miss it-a small telescope will make the evening even more enjoyable. In one quick triangular sweep, you can see the moons and cloud-belts of Jupiter, the gibbous phase of Venus (69% full), and craters and mountains on the Moon. It’s a Grand Tour you won’t soon forget.
