- Earth & Sky Calendar

Mon Jan 13 - Midvintersblot/Tiugunde/St. Hilary/Runic Half Month of Peorth begins - all indicate the time of midwinter (the "dead of winter") in the northern hemisphere...Full Wolf Moon in tropical Cancer...Mars occultation by the Moon (Mars eclipsed by the Moon)...Plough Monday - men go back to work on the farm after the holiday season ends.

Wed Jan 15 - Mars opposite Sun

Thur Jan 16 - Feast of Concordia, Goddess of harmonious relations with all.

Fri Jan 17 - Feast of Felicitas, Goddess of good luck.

Sat Jan 18 - Moon on equator...Moon at south node

Jupiter is very bright overhead at nightfall...followed by>

Mars is rising around 8 PM below Castor and Pollux, the twin stars of Gemini

Mars occultation by Moon on January 13

Saturn is dim in the southwestern sky at nightfall in

sidereal Aquarius and close to bright Venus. This is a good way to locate the dim stars of Aquarius!

Venus is the bright "star" visible in southwestern sky at dusk. It reaches its furthest eastern point of 47* from Sun on January 10.

Venus conjunct Saturn on January 18