Sometimes you have to step out of your box and leave the comfort zone.
Yesterday was one such
a time.
I and a few others had
been invited over to a friends house to sit outside in the gathering
dusk to feed ourselves and the ever present mosquitoes.
Having had quite enough
of the little buzzing, biting creatures this last week I was leaning
towards an evening indoors with the AC on and a good book.
Well the persistence of
friends overcame the reluctance and I spent more than a few hours in
quiet enjoyment and awe while DEET took care of the the distractions.
A Conjunction between
Mars and Saturn is happening right now above your heads, all you have
to do is look up, just a little, to the South East. No other
equipment other than your eyes is necessary.
There they are hanging
like jewels amongst a million million other jewels.
But for us the real
magic was yet to be revealed, there were three telescopes set up all
pointed in the same piece of sky.
Saturn was the target.
Saturn with her rings
filled the viewfinders.
Everyone who looked
through those long tubes gasped in amazement.
Everyone from the
absolute 'newbie' to the seasoned 'pro' stood and bowed their heads
to peer into the optics and all were moved.
Discussions ranged from
the obvious 'wow did you see the rings' ? to 'what does it all mean'?
Saturn held the show
and held us in her magic.
Saturn, to Holst was
the bringer of old age, to us
she was the bringer of childhood …
“There are no
seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven
million”.. ~Walt Streightiff
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