Sometimes you look at a chart and see that a planet is retrograde and wonder when it started its backward motion.  Or you may see a planet a...

Can you spot Mercury and Sun above the eastern horizon in the chart for 8:33 this morn in Raleigh?  And Jupiter right on the line?  Sun is o...

This is what Venus and Mars 6:23am in Raleigh this morn looks like in the chart.  Venus is so bright it is unmistakable.  It is maybe a fing...

I was thinking about electrons and how the physicists on Quorum keep repeating that they are not particles.  I recalled a conversation about...

The chart is for Thurs afternoon in Raleigh and shows Venus catching up to Mars.  It will be late afternoon in England and the Sun will have...

3rd pada, 52nd sutra The yogi should neither accept nor smile with pride at the admiration of even the celestial beings, as there is the po...

The busy part started almost as soon as the conjunction had taken place.  There was a soft knock on the door from one of the neighbor childr...

Going from chart to ephemeris is like looking at a drop of water under a microscope and then going down to the river to see the running body...

The hardest working book in your library. There are free ephemerides on line- I have several 10 year ephemerides downloaded on my phone fro...

Can you feel in your inner world the Moon near Saturn today?  Last night I ducked committing to do a favor for a friend this morn.  I was co...

Sun enters Leo 11:16am today (Raleigh, NC).  10:16am for our friends in Memphis, TN.  The invisible old Moon will be close behind, entering ...

I've been reading the histories of Polybiius (Punic Wars around 250bc-lots of battles at sea and on land between Rome and Carthage) and ...

I saw my first double star last night through a beginners' telescope handed down to me from a customer.  I'm not absolutely positive...

I am reading Faulkner's Go Down Moses , with help from shmoop and wikipedia sorting out the many generations of characters.  I have read...

I often wonder about difference between Ram (Aries) and Bull (Taurus) mascots in zodiac.  This morning I googled it and this is the first v...

I just have to get this down.  I am thoroughly enjoying the Venus Uranus conjunction especially today with Moon lined up qith Jupiter. My f...

I am at that customer's house again, loafing after doing a bit of yard work, and picked up Newton's Principia again.  Here is yet an...

I learned a new expression just in time to use it to describe Mercury stationed with Uranus in Aries--savage.  Miguel was pissed at his dad ...

In the last post I resisted the urge to look up a quote I made from the Yoga Sutras.  (Trying to reduce time spent composing posts) Of cours...

When I started the Our Sky fb group a few years ago I imagined it as a source of support for days like today.  My Capricorn friends were hav...