- Earth & Sky Calendar
Earth & Sky Calendar for Week of February 16 - 22
Mon Feb 16 - President's Day in USA
Tue Feb 17 - Festival of Fornacalia, the Oven Goddess, celebrating bread, ovens, and plants getting ready to be planted for the upcoming growing season...Shrove Tuesday/Mardi Gras....Chinese New Years 4724, Year of the Horse, representing energy/passion/freedom/rapid transformation. Expect many quick changes this year from acts of boldness....New Moon in Aquarius/Solar Eclipse
Wed Feb 18 - Persian Festival of Women Day....Feast Day of the Goddess Tacita who binds unfriendly/hostile speech and mouths....Celtic Tree Month of Nuin (ash) begins, linking the axis between the worlds thus bringing clear vision into other worlds and purification rites...Ash Wednesday...Moon at north node...Moon conjunct Mercury and Venus
Thur Feb 19 - Moon on the equator...Moon conjunct Saturn...Mercury's great elongation 18* east
Fri Feb 20 - Goddess Month of Moura begins
Sat Feb 21 - Festival of Feralia when the spirits of the dead come into this world near their burial sites. A time to leave them gifts to placate them.
Sun Feb 22 - Festival of the Goddess of Goodwill and Favors, Concordia/Charistia. A day when you should reconcile differences/disputes with others over a meal.
From Feb 8 - 28 a rare chance to see Mercury in the evening sky around 6:00. It is right below bright Venus during this time and the crescent Moon is very near it on the 18th with dim Saturn to the upper left of them too! Then on the 20th all 4 of them appear in a straight vertical line at nightfall: Venus/Mercury/Saturn/Moon.
The partial solar eclipse on Feb 17 will only be see in extreme southern latitudes of earth.
Venus has re-appeared as an evening star bright at nightfall in the west and will remain an evening star through October
Dim Saturn is up in the southwest night sky in sidereal Pisces at nightfall and sets around 9:00
Jupiter is bright rising in the eastern sky at nightfall locally near the Twins, Castor and Pollux in Gemini and is visible all night long as the brightest body in the night sky