Planetary Happenings

February 22nd, 2015

Spotted a strange thing in the sky today and pointed it out to the wife that Venus had a partner, not a distant star but what appeared like a moon, only Venus doesn’t have any. After a little research I discovered it was Mars coupled with Venus, together in the early evening sky with a crescent moon. The Roman Goddess of Love and God of War dancing with a waxing crescent Moon, the Moon representing our deepest personal needs, our basic habits and reactions, and our unconscious. Many believe we are living in the ‘End of Days’ and you will find a myriad of representations of all sorts of planetary phenomena to back up their claims along with powerful poetic references from the Bible and other historical works of literature, I myself have always encompassed a pessimistic outlook, not because I never wanted to be disappointed nor the one to say ‘I told you so,’ more-so because of an overwhelming angst that consumed me through my late teens and twenties. Now a days I try to believe that a future does exists but still find it difficult, the way I deal with that is to live in the present and just do what ever is necessary as it arises. Alignments of the planets have occurred throughout history and mankind is still in existence, an old Uncle of mine said it well during the visitation of Hale-Bop in 1997, that apparently, as the saying goes, there follows a period of great misery after the visitation of a comet in the skies, his comment quite sarcastically was, ‘Periods of great misery in humanity follow every event.’ Something will always happen before any catastrophe, quite randomly or even coincidentally. Tonight though I was in awe of the planets spiralling with the moon on this very clear winters evening.

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