- Earth & Sky Calendar

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Earth & Sky Calendar for Week of Sept 14 - 20

Mon Sept 14 - Festival of Lights, light offerings of fire and burn all night to images of gods and graves of ancestors....Moon conjunct Venus....

Fri Sept 18 - Moon runs low...Moon at apogee

Sat Sept 19 - Thoth's fasting day in honor of the God of wisdom and magick

Sun Sept 20 - Yom Kippur begins

Warning: this is our last month to see Venus our only evening planet in the western sky at nightfall, before she disappears behind the sun next month.

Mars is becoming more and more visible in the eastern pre-dawn morning sky near the Twin stars, Castor and Pollux, will appear orange in color, but not very bright.

Saturn is also visible in the early morning hours dim and white, and up at the midheaven around 3:00 AM,

Jupiter is the brightest body in the early morning eastern sky.