The Storyteller's Night Sky
What's going on in the night sky right now? Find out with Star Lore Historian Mary Stewart Adams, who narrates the stories written across the sky each week in order to restore the mythic grandeur of knowing the stars. Here, ancient mythologies are woven together with poetry, astrology, contemporary astronomy, and the new star wisdom astrosophy, to reveal the brilliant story of now.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 2 minutes
- Episodes
- 275
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Moon as Cosmic Window and Magic Mirror
All in one week the Moon checks in with all the outer planets, and this as Saturn begins its retrograde.
Witnessing the Greater Self at Solstice
This week it’s all about the Sun and its solstice, but it’s also about the Moon, which comes to Full Phase the day after solstice, placing an accent mark on what happens with the standing still of th…
The Aim of Waking is to Dream
The messenger of the gods slips into hiding beyond the Sun Friday, while the first heaven is flung open wide by a growing Moon ~ time to heed the whispers of the merry wanderer of the night.
Joan of Arcturus
Thursday, May 30th is the Feast of Joan of Arc. Arcturus is rising overhead from the East, the star of the shepherdess, beside the crown she would use to crown the King of France, who was nearly topp…
A Michelangelo Moon
The Secret of the Center of the Heavens
The Moon returned to its eclipse point Sunday, then moves through its dark phase, encountering the secrets of Venus before it comes New Tuesday night.
Beware May Eve
An Explosion of Stars from the Crown
Not to be outdone by our own star and its recent eclipse drama, a couple of stars in Corona Borealis are cooking up their own fantastic display when they explode sometime soon
Jupiter, Uranus, and the Moon
Shadows Carry the Whole Story
The thrill of experience that defies our sense of the immutable
Here Begins a New Life in Love
The beloveds Moon and Venus meet in the midday at eclipse, and so begins their new story.
Shadow of the Future Cast at Eclipse
When the world becomes the mirror upon which the gods cast the shadow of the future.
The Higher Self & the Stars of Leo
The Moon waxes toward Full Phase among the stars of Leo this week, gathering up the kingly forces of the Lion before eclipse on March 25th.
The Price of Improbable Love
In a Bed of Daffodil Sky
The Hidden Promise of Leap Day
Forty Days with the Moon
All Love Meets with Its Return
Only once every 12 years will the Olympian King of the Gods stand beside the lead star of the zodiac with the Moon sweeping by on Valentine’s Day, and it’s happening this year.
The Love From Which We are Born
As our morning star, Venus is sowing love and beauty into the world, while the Moon sweeps by as a thin sliver of itself, and Mars fades from view.
The Poetic Calendar
Botticelli's Primavera comes poetically to life overhead this week when Moon meets Spica at cross-quarter time in the morning sky.