Last night’s crescent – Photo: L. Weikel

Touching the Sacred

As I mentioned last night, the moon has been stunningly clear (and uncharacteristically photogenic!) on our walks the last few evenings. And walking beneath the vast and attenuated winter sky overflowing with brilliant points of light gives us the sense that we’re touching the Sacred.

I am trying my hardest to steer clear of writing about ‘out there.’

And by ‘out there,’ I mean pretty much anything that’s happening outside of our own direct experience and personal lives, but especially the myriad dramas playing out around us.

Tonight’s Waxing Crescent, Jupiter, and… Photo: L. Weikel

Another ‘Out There’

But now that I mention it, there were a few intriguing moments this evening that felt more connected to way far away ‘out there.’ The photo below, for instance, seems to depict a somewhat dull object (neither self-illuminated nor affixed with lights) underneath and slightly to the right of the moon. In every other photo I took of that same area of the sky, that object does not appear.

Waxing Crescent Moon, Jupiter (above), and… Photo: L. Weikel

‘Blink and it’s gone.’

Experiences like this do make me wonder just how much we miss every day.

The planet Jupiter, naturally, proudly shines forth just above the moon. It’s hard to miss. And astrologically, Jupiter tends to make everything ‘bigger,’ and usually ‘better.’

It doesn’t feel like that’s the case lately. Well, bigger maybe. But better?

I’m left feeling like there’s a lot left that’s being unaddressed. Everywhere.

(T+29)