The Storyteller's Night Sky with Mary Stewart Adams
By Mary Stewart Adams
The Storyteller's Night Sky with Mary Stewart AdamsApr 25, 2022
The Secret of the Center of the Heavens
The Moon returned to its eclipse point Sunday, then moves through its dark phase, encountering the secrets of Venus before it comes New Tuesday night.
Beware May Eve
An Explosion of Stars from the Crown
Not to be outdone by our own star and its recent eclipse drama, a couple of stars in Corona Borealis are cooking up their own fantastic display when they explode sometime soon
Jupiter, Uranus, and the Moon
Shadows Carry the Whole Story
The thrill of experience that defies our sense of the immutable
Here Begins a New Life in Love
The beloveds Moon and Venus meet in the midday at eclipse, and so begins their new story.
Shadow of the Future Cast at Eclipse
When the world becomes the mirror upon which the gods cast the shadow of the future.
The Higher Self & the Stars of Leo
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.
The Price of Improbable Love
In a Bed of Daffodil Sky
The Hidden Promise of Leap Day
Forty Days with the Moon
All Love Meets with Its Return
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.
The Love From Which We are Born
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.
The Poetic Calendar
Botticelli's Primavera comes poetically to life overhead this week when Moon meets Spica at cross-quarter time in the morning sky.
The Great Cosmic Mirror of the Moon
Musings on the meaning of first Full Moon of the new year.
The Amen of the Universe
Venus, Mercury, and Mars cross through the morning Milky Way, bringing to mind the inspiring words of German mystic poet Novalis.
The Long Night's Festival
At the stillness of Solstice, Mercury slips in between Earth and Sun, listening in the year's midnight.
A Meteor Shower of Faith, Hope, and Love
The Geminid Meteor Shower peaks overnight Wednesday to Thursday, inspiring images from “The Paradise” of Dante’s Divine Comedy into the season.
Moon and Venus and the Three Kings
The Moon and Venus are spectacular at dawn this week, with a fairy tale tucked in besides.
The Moon Rises with a Magic Tale
For Love is a Light of Heaven
Mars Meets the Sun, Kepler Steals the Gold
This week Mars has its biennial meeting with the Sun, just after the anniversary of Kepler's death on November 15 in 1630.
The Outward Shining of an Inward Light
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.
To Let the Face of God Shine Through
This week's seasonal cross quarter coincides with Jupiter's annual opposition with with Sun. What shines through between them?
When Inmost Soul Must Stay Awake
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.
Giants in the Sky
Gods are Hard for Mortals to See
Venus and the Flame of Love
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?
Full Moon at Michaelmas
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 Bold
Autumn Equinox occurs in the early hours this Saturday, heralding the full harvest a sense of balance.
Sweet New Style with New Moon and Venus
Dante's Moon this Thursday carries Venus and the love of wisdom to a striving humanity.
Venus and the Union with the Greater Self
Venus resumes direct motion in
the next stage of the quest
Happily Ever After with Blue Moon and Venus
Remaining True Our Ideals with Saturn at Opposition
Saturn is at opposition with the sun August 27, bearing a message from our future destiny, near the star Fomalhaut.
On Meteors and Butterflies
In the midst of this season's meteor shower magic, the monarchs take flight, fortifying us with strength and beauty for the seasons ahead.
Brothers and Sons
The spectacular show in the sky this week shines a light on the celestial lineage of Zeus and two of his children
As the World Turns
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?
When Moon Unfurls the Rosy Petals of Pleiades
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.
The Voice of All the Gods ~ Venus, Jupiter, Moon
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.
Trust Your Heart
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
Summer Solstice and the Utterance of the Gods
What you dream at Summer Solstice, or what the gods utter, has in it the power and majesty of celestial encounter
Stilling the Thunder~Trembling the Veil
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.
Art in the Stars with Venus&Mars
As painting, so is poetry ~ especially in the stars this week, where Venus and Mars strike a Botticelli pose at the beehive cluster.
Waking in the Sleeping
Last Full Moon of the spring at midnight Saturday ~ the stuff true ceremony is made of
Venus, Mars, and Gemini Stars
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.
A Week of Celestial and Festival Mysteries Ahead
What to make of Moon occulting Jupiter, Ascension, and New Phase all at once?
Venus Unveiled
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.
How the Stillness Becomes the Dancing
Mercury at inferior conjunction says "be still" while Sun/Uranus at Full Moon call us to the dance.
Traveling Together Among the Stars
Old love, new chapter