Signs in the June sky

Glenn Scheper glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Wed Jun 20 00:28:04 CDT 2007


Sunday night, after learning new skills and roto-tilling for two days,
I looked up at 11:30 to see four bodies aligned across the sky, three
on the concave side of the crescent moon.

>From somebody in the know: They are the Moon, Venus, Saturn, Regulus:
http://amandabauer.blogspot.com/2007/06/moon-and-planet-alignment.html

This evening, I see the three bodies are on the convex side.
Tomorrow in the early evening they should still be visible.

Since the roughly equivalent Venus - Isis - Hathor are the cow goddess,
I imagine that seeing Venus pass from one side of the moon to the other
would be the provenance of that rhyme, "the cow jumped over the moon."

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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