Tag: Astronomy

Haiku: Blood Moon

The colour of blood
staring down from silent skies –
and he follows me

Copyright Francis 2022

Haiku (Irregular): Winter Moon

Photo by Alex Powell on Pexels.com

Winter Moon
moves behind cloud —
perspective

Copyright Francis 2021

2021, January 13: Evening Planets — When the Curves Line Up (Reblog)

January 13, 2021: Mercury and Venus can be found in the west-southwest during bright evening twilight. Mars is higher in the sky when the sky is darker. It is nearing the planet Uranus.

2021, January 13: Evening Planets — When the Curves Line Up

Yuletide 2020 — The Classical Astrologer (Reblog)

Image courtesy of Vancouver’s Winter Solstice Lantern Festival 2020 Marsilio Ficino wrote in a letter to Rinaldo Orsini: “… I recalled what the ancient sages say, not without very good reason, in their fables about Saturn and Jupiter, Mars and Venus; they say that Mars is bound by Venus, and Saturn by Jupiter. Thus simply […]

Yuletide 2020 — The Classical Astrologer

The solar year ends and starts with a great conjunction — The Renaissance Mathematicus (Reblog)

Today is the winter solstice, which as I have explained on various occasions, in the past, is for me the natural New Year’s Eve/New Year’s Day rather than the arbitrary 31 December/1 January. Obligatory Stonehenge winter solstice image Today in also the occurrence of a so-called great conjunction in astronomy/astrology, which is when, viewed from […]

The solar year ends and starts with a great conjunction — The Renaissance Mathematicus