- Earth & Sky Calendar

Mon May 4 - Festival of Bona Dea, the Good Goddess, represented by the flowering hawthorn bush this time of the year. A day to tie a scrap of colorful cloth on a sacred tree or bush....Moon at apogee

Tue May 5 - Moon  runs low

Wed May 6 - Pluto goes retrograde

Sat May 9 - Lemuria Festival, when the spirits of the dead (the Shades) revisit their former homes  

Sun May 10 - Mother's Day

Venus is an evening star bright at nightfall in the west rising higher and higher each night and will remain an evening star through October setting later and later in the evening as the month goes along.

Saturn, Mars, and Mercury will appear in the pre-dawn twilight come mid-month but still too low on horizon for most to see before daylight blots them out.  

Jupiter is bright overhead at nightfall locally between the Twins, Castor and Pollux, and Alhena the heel, right in the middle of Gemini and is visible until early morning hours as the brightest body in the night sky