A meeting of planets in the morning and evening skies
The morning and evening skies of late November present a wonderful dance of the planets. A dance of polarities that at the same time relates to us.
In the morning sky, from about the 20th November onward, we see Mercury rising up to visibility out of its proximity to the sun, now in advance of the sun – befitting its role as messenger of the Gods! Mercury, as an image of flexibility and the ability to change, approaches another cosmic member – Mars, which is passing above (see the diagram to the right, with the dates noted). Mars brings with it a very different quality: of strength and endurance. On the 25th November, the moon joins the two in a row together, in its last sliver of waning before ‘joining’ the sun the next day as New Moon.