The Storyteller's Night Sky with Mary Stewart Adams

The thrill of experience that defies our sense of the immutable

The beloveds Moon and Venus meet in the midday at eclipse, and so begins their new story.

When the world becomes the mirror upon which the gods cast the shadow of the future.

The Moon waxes toward Full Phase among the stars of Leo this week, gathering up the kingly forces of the Lion before eclipse on March 25th. 

Only once every 12 years will the Olympian King of the Gods stand beside the lead star of the zodiac with the Moon sweeping by on Valentine’s Day, and it’s happening this year.

As our morning star, Venus is sowing love and beauty into the world, while the Moon sweeps by as a thin sliver of itself, and Mars fades from view.

Botticelli's Primavera comes poetically to life overhead this week when Moon meets Spica at cross-quarter time in the morning sky.

Musings on the meaning of first Full Moon of the new year.

Venus, Mercury, and Mars cross through the morning Milky Way, bringing to mind the inspiring words of German mystic poet Novalis.

At the stillness of Solstice, Mercury slips in between Earth and Sun, listening in the year's midnight.

The Geminid Meteor Shower peaks overnight Wednesday to Thursday, inspiring images from “The Paradise” of Dante’s Divine Comedy into the season.

The Moon and Venus are spectacular at dawn this week, with a fairy tale tucked in besides.

This week Mars has its biennial meeting with the Sun, just after the anniversary of Kepler's death on November 15 in 1630.

The planet Venus rides across the dawn in a chariot of the Moon later this week, a spectacular sight that lends itself to easily finding the goddess of love and beauty lingering in the East even after the Sun rises.

This week's seasonal cross quarter coincides with Jupiter's annual opposition with with Sun. What shines through between them?

The Moon joins Neptune Pisces midweek, a province of dreams if ever there was one, offering a lullaby as though it would put us all to sleep with the season.

By this weekend, Venus returns to the same position she held in early July, when the planet was visible in the evening sky near the star Regulus. What now?

In the northern hemisphere there are five things overhead every night: a king, a queen, two bears, and a dragon. This week, the Full Moon draws attention in the Storyteller’s Night Sky to the king and the dragon.

Autumn Equinox occurs in the early hours this Saturday, heralding the full harvest a sense of balance.

Dante's Moon this Thursday carries Venus and the love of wisdom to a striving humanity.

Venus resumes direct motion in

the next stage of the quest

Saturn is at opposition with the sun August 27, bearing a message from our future destiny, near the star Fomalhaut.

In the midst of this season's meteor shower magic, the monarchs take flight, fortifying us with strength and beauty for the seasons ahead.

The spectacular show in the sky this week shines a light on the celestial lineage of Zeus and two of his children

Each one of the phenomena that happens this week, Full Moon, Cross Quarter, planetary retrograde, is one that recurs again and again, or is it?

There’s a sacred mystery in the summer sky this week when the crescent Moon rises just before morning twilight in the company of Pleiades.

Each evening this week, the Moon will rise after sunset, a glorious gibbous moving across the night, while Jupiter heralds the dawn and Venus guards the evening twilight, a heavenly harmony.

Venus has a message for her beloved Mars, as he fades from view and she steps back, sort a gesture of their eternal bond, despite appearances

What you dream at Summer Solstice, or what the gods utter, has in it the power and majesty of celestial encounter

The waning crescent Moon slips past Jupiter at dawn this week, stilling the thunderer on the anniversary of the birth of Irish poet William Butler Yeats.

As painting, so is poetry ~ especially in the stars this week, where Venus and Mars strike a Botticelli pose at the beehive cluster.

Last Full Moon of the spring at midnight Saturday ~ the stuff true ceremony is made of

All through the coming month, the planets Venus and Mars will grace the evening sky looking west, though Mars is gradually fading, and Venus is slowing down in her chase.

What to make of Moon occulting Jupiter, Ascension, and New Phase all at once?

Now comes the season of Venus’ greatest altitude, which means the opportunity is at hand for seeing the goddess of love and beauty in broad daylight.

Mercury at inferior conjunction says "be still" while Sun/Uranus at Full Moon call us to the dance.

Old love, new chapter

Venus is beautiful this week, moving up the sky through the starry region of Taurus, joining Pleiades in the evening sky.

Time now for our two great lights to trade places in the celestial hemispheres and open the mystery.

There are three celestial pairings this week that sing into the new season in a rousing way!