- Earth & Sky Calendar
Earth & Sky Calendar for Week of July 27 - Aug 2
Mon Jul 27 - Saturn stations retrograde
Tue Jul 28 - Festival of Domhnach Chrom Dubh, God of sacrifice of grain indicating the beginning of grain cutting season
Wed Jul 29 - Runic Half Month of Thorn begins, representing ascending powers and order....Thor's Day...Full Buck Moon in tropical Aquarius...the Sun conjunct Jupiter
Fri Jul 31 - Lammas Eve honors the Trickster God, Loki and his wife Sigyn...Moon at North Node
Sat Aug 1 - Cross Quarter Day: Llamas, a time of the first harvests especially of grains
Sun Aug 2 - Moon on equator...Mercury great elongation 20* west
Venus is our only evening planet, bright in the western sky at nightfall.
Mars is becoming more and more visible in the eastern pre-dawn morning sky will appear orange in color. Saturn is also visible in the early morning hours but much dimmer and up at the midheaven around 5:00 AM,