Venus and Jupiter continue to separate in the western evening twilight, as Jupiter sinks lower and Venus moves a little higher. We nor see them 9° from each ...
And see Fred Schaaf's "Sighting the Beehive" in the Uranus, magnitude 5.8 in Aries, is in the west right after dark, above Venus. And a very distant tight pair of red dwarfs, Castor C, is visible in amateur scopes as a single, 10th-magnitude speck 70 arcseconds south-southeast of the main pair. Mars is in eastern Taurus, heading east against the stars toward Gemini. So when the stars come out, the Big Dipper is as high in the northeast as Cassiopeia has descended to in the northwest. ■ Spring arrives very soon (the equinox is on the 20th), so Orion stands upright high in the south-southwest as the stars come out. Much farther, and thus much smaller and dimmer, is the open cluster NGC 2158, just a little way to M35's southwest. It's tilted to the left, aligned along the constellations of the zodiac. The dog is in profile prancing to the right on his hind legs, with Sirius as the shiny dog tag on his chest. The Cleaver is chopping toward the lower right. In a good dark sky, the Big Dog's stick figure is fairly plain to see with the naked eye. The top of the triangle is perfectly level shortly thereafter.
This week brings a touch of magical realism or unrealistic pragmatism, depending on how we play it, as the dream world seeps into our daily life while the ...
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15: The vibe is spacey but can shift to competence if we can remember what we’re doing as the sun conjuncts dreamy Neptune under a competent Capricorn moon. But question sudden impulses and assess the consequences as the sun squares Mars. Don’t take action until it’s clear, but it could be time to let go of a project or friendship that’s just not working and create room for a new phase. SUNDAY, MARCH 12: Let go of outdated dreams and do deep work on an important goal as the Scorpio moon trines the sun, Mercury, and Neptune in Pisces. We may not want to reach out, but if we do, Venus’ sextile of Mars can bring a helpful and sociable undertone but also irritation with time wasters. A desire for magic intensifies midweek as the sun and Mercury conjunct Neptune.
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