- Earth & Sky Calendar

Mon Jan 5 - 12th and final Night of Christmas season

Tue Jan 6 - Epiphany/Epiphany of Persephone/Kore, as she begins her rise back to earth...Venus in superior conjunction with Sun

Wed Jan 7 - Sekhmet, ancient Egyptian New Year's...Orthodox Christmas...Distaff Day...Moon at south node....conjunction of Venus and Mars

Thur Jan 8 - sacred day of Justitia, goddess of justice...Moon on the equator

Fri Jan 9 - Sun conjunct Mars

Sat Jan 10 - Jupiter at opposition to Sun

Sun Jan 11 - Carmentalia, festival of the nymphs of prophecy/the Muses, protectors of child birth...Sacred Day of Juturna, divinity of fountains and those who work with water

Dim Saturn is up in the southern night sky at the mid-heaven in sidereal Pisces at nightfall and sets around midnight

Jupiter rises very brightly around 8:00 PM locally near the Twins, Castor and Pollux in Gemini and is visible all night long as the brightest body in the night sky