- Earth & Sky Calendar

Mon Aug 10 - Moon at perigee

Tue Aug 11 - Dog Days of summer end...Moon conjunct Mercury...Moon conjunct Jupiter

Wed Aug 12 - Festival of the Lights of Isis....New Moon in tropical Leo...Solar eclipse

Thur Aug 13 - Runic Half Month of As begins, bringing stability; divine force at work in the physical world; continuity in times of chaotic change...Festival of the Goddess Hecate...Moon at south node

Sat Aug 15 - The Great Mother Goddess Day/Assumption of Mary, a time of fertility and harvests and the ending of the hottest times of the year...Moon on equator...Mercury conjunct Jupiter....Venus great elongation 46* east

Sun Aug 16 - Moon conjunct Venus

Venus is our only evening planet, bright as it will be this year 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,

A rare chance to see Mercury in the early morning sky on the eastern horizon this month. Conjunct Jupiter at dawn on the 15th.

Early morning hours peaking on the 12th is the Perseid meteor shower under moonless skies!