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)
Lisa, do you know about the blue dot in photos? I tend to get them all the time … and that’s what this looks like, because it appears to be the reverse crescent of the moon. “It is a reflection off of the iPhone lens from a particular light source. You can usually identify the light source when you look at the photo. The only way to adjust this is to identify the light source and try adjusting the angle of the iPhone to minimize it.” I also found a photo-editing app to erase them afterwards, called Snapseed.
Could very well be, although I’ve seen the blue dot on my photos before and they’re usually much brighter blue and quite obvious. I get them often when I take photos of the moon, especially when it’s full or close to full.
This one was just odd in that it appeared in only one photo of about four that I took within moments of each other, and it appeared duller and just looked different to me than the usual ‘blue dot.’