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The Perseid Meteors

The Perseid Meteor Shower is active from July 29th to August 26th and “shooting stars” are visible all night long during this time throughout the Northern Hemisphere. As the skies darken, look to the NNE where the constellation Perseus [below the W-shaped constellation Cassiopeia] is climbing over the horizon. By midnight, Perseus will be in…

Alacazem 2009.08.06

August 6 to 13, 2009 Visible Planets: Morning: Venus, Mars and Jupiter   Evening: Mercury and Saturn Bookends on the Summer Eclipse Series and Messages on the Cosmic Wind It’s mid-summer and we have just put the bookend on the 2009 series of summer eclipses. Whew! From the first July 7th Full Moon lunar eclipse, to…

Alacazem 2009.07.30

July 30 to August 6, 2009Visible Planets: Morning: Venus, Mars and Jupiter  Evening: Mercury and Saturn Grandpa Bunny Bunny and Heaven, Rain and Rainbows       When I was a little girl, my Mother used to load my brothers and sisters and me up in our red and white 1958 Chevy station wagon – I think…

Alacazem 2009.07.23

July 23 to 30, 2009Visible Planets: Morning: Venus, Mars and Jupiter  Evening: Mercury and SaturnHonoring a Brother-In-Arms, Walking on the Moon and Feeling Our Cancer-ruled Emotions We humans are emotional creatures – the Buddhists use the term “sentient beings” – and we are subject to waves, and sometimes even oceans of emotion. The Cancer zodiac…

Alacazem 2009.07.16

July 16 to 23, 2009Visible Planets: Morning: Venus, Mars, Jupiter  Evening: Saturn Cosmic Cancer Eclipse Energy: Let Mother Nature Nurture This week, on July 21st, we experience the celestial event of a New Moon total solar eclipse [it will not be visible in North America] at 29º 26’ Cancer. The recent June 22nd New Moon…

Alacazem 2009.07.09

July 9 to 16, 2009 Visible Planets: Morning: Venus, Mars and Jupiter    Evening: Saturn I can’t stop thinking about Michael Jackson. I know it’s crazy, but it’s true. And even while I’m feeling crazy-busy about getting ready for a two week camping trip up in Idaho – paying bills, packing clothes, doing all the…

Alacazem 2009.07.02

July 2 to 9, 2009 Visible Planets: Morning: Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter  Evening: Saturn Once again, this week’s “eclipse window” opens to some rather stunning world news as the Sun and Moon move into the exact opposition aspect of a lunar eclipse on July 7th. Taking place at 3:21 a.m. MDT @ 15º 24’…

Alacazem 2009.06.25

June 25 to July 2, 2009 Visible Planets: Morning: Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter  Evening: Saturn Down here in the West End, the baby bluebirds have left their nests and are learning to fly. They are being fed fresh bugs by their attentive parents as they huddle together on the lower branches of a small…

Alacazem 2009.06.18

June 18 to 25, 2009Visible Planets: Morning: Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter   Evening: Saturn Returning Friends and Recurring Seasons – Happy Birthday and Summer Solstice It’s Bluegrass in Telluride and for me that means music and motorcycles. It’s also one of my best friend’s birthdays [June 20th] – he’s the latest degree of Gemini possible…

Alacazem 2009.06.11

June 11 to 18, 2009 Visible Planets: Morning: Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Mercury  Evening: SaturnCollective Evolution, Planetary Healing, Inner and Outer Peace… Planet Jupiter goes retrograde in the early morning hours of June 15th, joining asteroid Chiron and Neptune in their apparent backward motion through the late degrees of revolutionary Aquarius. This ongoing planetary convergence…