2 January Daily Correspondence Digest for the Southern Hemisphere’s Moon Phase and Planetary Positions


You can use this link to go forward or backward in time for Moon phase information. If you are curious, you can even find out what phase the Moon was in when you or anyone else, you know was on the date the person was born.

From Moongiant.com

Today and tonight the Moon will be in a New Moon phase. During this phase the Moon is too close to the sun in the sky to be visible. The moon rises and sets with the sun and is not present in the night sky. Because of this the night sky is darker and an excellent time to view other celestial objects. Like the Full Moon, a New Moon happens at a very specific time when the sun and moon have the same ecliptic longitude and it can be measured down to the second it occurs.

Visit the January 2022 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s New Moon Phase

The New Moon on January 2 has an illumination of 0%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On January 2 the Moon is 29.22 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases.

The 8 Lunar Phases

There are 8 lunar phases the Moon goes through in its 29.53 days lunar cycle. The 4 major Moon phases are Full Moon, New Moon, First Quarter and Last Quarter. Between these major phases, there are 4 minor ones: the Waxing Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, Waning Gibbous and Waning Crescent. For more info on the Moon Cycle and on each phase check out Wikipedia Lunar Phase page.

Phase Details

Phase: New Moon
Illumination: 0%
Moon Age: 29.22 days
Moon Angle: 0.55
Moon Distance: 364,397.84 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 147,097,604.20 km

Useful Moon Resources

If you need to calculate the planetary positions for a specific use and time, click on this link

Currentplanetarypositions.com

To figure out GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) to your local time use this link

 For Your Local Time and Date

Southwestern Hemisphere

The time for this Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 

2 January 2022
05:00 am GMT 4:00 PM AEDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:11 Capricorn 46
Moon:03 Capricorn 46
Mercury:29 Capricorn 53
Venus:22 Capricorn 41 Rx
Mars:13 Sagittarius 58
Jupiter:00 Pisces 47
Saturn:12 Aquarius 02
Uranus:10 Taurus 56 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 41
Pluto:25 Capricorn 58
True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 09 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:29 Taurus 28 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):18 Gemini 36
Chiron:08 Aries 31
Ceres:28 Taurus 31 Rx
Pallas:16 Pisces 46
Juno:17 Capricorn 51
Vesta:25 Sagittarius 11
Eris:23 Aries 42 Rx
Fire:4
Earth:9
Air:3
Water:3
Cardinal:8
Fixed:4
Mutable:7

Southeastern Hemisphere

The time for this Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Sao Paulo, Brazil, South America

2 January 2022
07:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM BRT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:12 Capricorn 21
Moon:12 Capricorn 37
Mercury:00 Aquarius 40
Venus:22 Capricorn 23 Rx
Mars:14 Sagittarius 22
Jupiter:00 Pisces 54
Saturn:12 Aquarius 06
Uranus:10 Taurus 56 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 42
Pluto:26 Capricorn 00
True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 06 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:29 Taurus 26 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):18 Gemini 40
Chiron:08 Aries 32
Ceres:28 Taurus 28 Rx
Pallas:16 Pisces 55
Juno:18 Capricorn 05
Vesta:25 Sagittarius 29
Eris:23 Aries 41 Rx
Fire:4
Earth:8
Air:4
Water:3
Cardinal:7
Fixed:5
Mutable:7

Southern Hemisphere

The time for this Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Cape Town, South Africa

2 January 2022
02:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM SAST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:12 Capricorn 09
Moon:09 Capricorn 28
Mercury:00 Aquarius 23
Venus:22 Capricorn 29 Rx
Mars:14 Sagittarius 14
Jupiter:00 Pisces 51
Saturn:12 Aquarius 05
Uranus:10 Taurus 56 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 42
Pluto:25 Capricorn 59
True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 07 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:29 Taurus 27 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):18 Gemini 38

Chiron:08 Aries 32
Ceres:28 Taurus 29 Rx
Pallas:16 Pisces 51
Juno:18 Capricorn 00
Vesta:25 Sagittarius 23
Eris:23 Aries 42 Rx

Fire:4
Earth:8
Air:4
Water:3
Cardinal:7
Fixed:5
Mutable:7

January 1st Today In History

Today’s Important Historical Events

45 BC The Julian calendar takes effect for the first time

630 Prophet Muhammad sets out with an army 10,000 strong to conquer Mecca

1758 The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature establish the “starting point” for standardized species names across the animal kingdom, based on the binomial nomenclature by Carolus Linnaeus 10th edition of Systema Naturae

1863 Emancipation Proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln to free slaves in US confederate states

1892 Ellis Island opens as a US immigration inspection station – it would go on to be the gateway to the US for more than 12 million people

1896 German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen announces his discovery of x-rays

1958 European Economic Community, better known as the European Common Market starts operation

Today’s Historical Events

153 BC Roman consuls begin their year in office

45 BC The Julian calendar takes effect for the first time

1 Origin of the Christian Era

69 Roman garrison of Mainz uprising

89 Governor Lucius Antonius Saturninus of Germany becomes emperor of Rome

104 Triumphal procession for the Roman General Gaius Marius with the defeated Numidian King Jugurtha led in chains though Rome

177 Commodus, son of Emperor Marcus Aurelius becomes consul for the first time – at 15 then youngest ever in Roman history

313 Start of Roman (Pontifical) Indiction

Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV

1944 1st feature-length foreign movie “African Journey”, shown on TV, NYC

1947 WTTG TV channel 5 in Washington, D.C. (MET) begins broadcasting

1949 KPRC TV channel 2 in Houston, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting

1949 KTTV TV channel 11 in Los Angeles, CA (MET) begins broadcasting

1953 WBRE TV channel 28 in Wilkes-Barre Scranton, PA (NBC) 1st broadcast

1953 The first TV detector van, used to track down users of unlicensed television sets, begins operation in the UK

1954 KSLA TV channel 12 in Shreveport, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting

1954 WWTV TV channel 9 in Cadillac-Traverse City, MI (CBS) 1st broadcast

Today’s Historical Events in Music

1770 Date of action in the opera “Madeleine”

1863 Franz Schubert‘s “Missa Solemnis,” premieres in Leipzig

1879 Johannes Brahms‘ Violin Concerto in D major premieres in Leipzig

1952 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 5th string quartet

1957 Benjamin Britten‘s ballet “Prince & the Pauper,” premieres in London

1960 Johnny Cash plays first of many free concerts behind bars at San Quentin Prison, California; Merle Haggard among the inmate audience

1962 Beatles’ Decca Records audition is unsuccessful – they are told “guitar groups are on the way out…”

1964 Top of the Pops, British pop music television program premieres; acts performing include Dusty Springfield; The Rolling Stones; Dave Clark Five: The Hollies; Swinging Blue; and The Beatles

 

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1838 1st official horse race in South Australia-Adelaide

1902 1st Rose Bowl, Tournament Park, Pasadena, California: Michigan beats Stanford, 49-0; MVP: Neil Snow, Michigan, FB

1907 Joe Gans lands a devastating right to the head of Canadian challenger Kid Herman to retain his world lightweight boxing title with an 8th round knockout in Tonopah, Nevada

1908 Jack Hobbs makes his international debut in England’s 2nd Test win over Australia at the MCG, scoring 83 and 28 in his two innings. Goes onto become the leading run scorer and century maker in 1st-class cricket history.

1909 American Robert Fowler runs then world record marathon (2:52:45.4) at Yonkers, NY

1910 England cricket underhand bowler George Simpson-Hayward takes 6-43 on debut with underarm lobs in 1st Test against South Africa in Johannesburg; SA wins by 19 runs

1913 Australasian Championships Men’s Tennis, Hastings, NZ: Irishman James Cecil Parke beats Alfred Beamish of England 3-6, 6-3, 1-6, 6-1, 7-5

1916 2nd Rose Bowl, Tournament Park, Pasadena, California: Washington State beats Brown, 14-0; MVP: Carl Dietz, Washington State

Astronomy Picture of the Day

(I did not post the wrong picture for today, January 1, 2022)

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2022 January 1

The Full Moon of 2021

Image Credit & Copyright: Soumyadeep Mukherjee

Explanation: Every Full Moon of 2021 shines in this year-spanning astrophoto project, a composite portrait of the familiar lunar nearside at each brightest lunar phase. Arranged by moonth, the year progresses in stripes beginning at the top. Taken with the same camera and lens the stripes are from Full Moon images all combined at the same pixel scale. The stripes still looked mismatched, but they show that the Full Moon’s angular size changes throughout the year depending on its distance from Kolkata, India, planet Earth. The calendar month, a full moon name, distance in kilometers, and angular size is indicated for each stripe. Angular size is given in minutes of arc corresponding to 1/60th of a degree. The largest Full Moon is near a perigee or closest approach in May. The smallest is near an apogee, the most distant Full Moon in December. Of course the full moons of May and November also slid into Earth’s shadow during 2021’s two lunar eclipses.

1 January Daily Correspondence Digest for the Southern Hemisphere’s Moon Phase and Planetary Positions

You can use this link to go forward or backward in time for Moon phase information. If you are curious you can even find out what phase the Moon was in when you or anyone else, you know was on the date the person was born.

From Moongiant.com

The Moon’s current phase for today and tonight is a Waning Crescent phase. In this phase the Moon’s illumination is growing smaller each day until the New Moon. During this part of the Moon cycle, the Moon is getting closer to the Sun as viewed from Earth and the night side of the Moon is facing the Earth with only a small edge of the Moon being illuminated. This phase is best viewed an hour or 2 before the sunrise and can be quite beautiful if you’re willing to get up early. It can also be a great time to see the features of the Moon’s surface. Along the edge where the illuminated portion meets the dark side, the craters and mountains cast long shadows making them easier to observe with a telescope or binoculars.

Visit the January 2022 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waning Crescent Phase

The Waning Crescent on January 1 has an illumination of 2%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On January 1 the Moon is 28.06 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases.

The 8 Lunar Phases

There are 8 lunar phases the Moon goes through in its 29.53 days lunar cycle. The 4 major Moon phases are Full Moon, New Moon, First Quarter and Last Quarter. Between these major phases, there are 4 minor ones: the Waxing Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, Waning Gibbous and Waning Crescent. For more info on the Moon Cycle and on each phase check out Wikipedia Lunar Phase page.

Phase Details

Phase: Waning Crescent
Illumination: 2%
Moon Age: 28.06 days
Moon Angle: 0.55
Moon Distance: 363,367.26 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 147,098,362.05 km

Useful Moon Resources

If you need to calculate the planetary positions for a specific use and time, click on this link

Currentplanetarypositions.com

To figure out GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) to your local time use this link

For Your Local Time and Date

Southwestern Hemisphere

The time for this Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 

1 January 2022
05:00 am GMT 4:00 PM AEDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:10 Capricorn 44
Moon:18 Sagittarius 37
Mercury:28 Capricorn 29
Venus:23 Capricorn 12 Rx
Mars:13 Sagittarius 15
Jupiter:00 Pisces 35
Saturn:11 Aquarius 56
Uranus:10 Taurus 57 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 40
Pluto:25 Capricorn 56
True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 12 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:29 Taurus 31 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):18 Gemini 29
Chiron:08 Aries 31
Ceres:28 Taurus 37 Rx
Pallas:16 Pisces 31
Juno:17 Capricorn 28
Vesta:24 Sagittarius 38
Eris:23 Aries 42 Rx
Fire:5
Earth:8
Air:3
Water:3
Cardinal:7
Fixed:4
Mutable:8

Southeastern Hemisphere

The time for this Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Sao Paulo, Brazil, South America

1 January 2022
07:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM BRT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:11 Capricorn 20
Moon:27 Sagittarius 27
Mercury:29 Capricorn 18
Venus:22 Capricorn 54 Rx
Mars:13 Sagittarius 40
Jupiter:00 Pisces 42
Saturn:11 Aquarius 59
Uranus:10 Taurus 56 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 41
Pluto:25 Capricorn 58
True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 11 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:29 Taurus 29 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):18 Gemini 33

Chiron:08 Aries 31
Ceres:28 Taurus 34 Rx
Pallas:16 Pisces 39
Juno:17 Capricorn 41
Vesta:24 Sagittarius 57
Eris:23 Aries 42 Rx

Fire:5
Earth:8
Air:3
Water:3
Cardinal:7
Fixed:4
Mutable:8

Southern Hemisphere

The time for this Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Cape Town, South Africa

1 January 2022
02:00 pm GMT 4:00 PM SAST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:11 Capricorn 07
Moon:24 Sagittarius 18
Mercury:29 Capricorn 00
Venus:23 Capricorn 00 Rx
Mars:13 Sagittarius 31
Jupiter:00 Pisces 40
Saturn:11 Aquarius 58
Uranus:10 Taurus 57 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 41
Pluto:25 Capricorn 57
True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 11 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:29 Taurus 30 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):18 Gemini 32
Chiron:08 Aries 31
Ceres:28 Taurus 35 Rx
Pallas:16 Pisces 36
Juno:17 Capricorn 37
Vesta:24 Sagittarius 50
Eris:23 Aries 42 Rx
Fire:5
Earth:8
Air:3
Water:3
Cardinal:7
Fixed:4
Mutable:8

What Will 2022 Bring for WOTC?

Wild Lang Syne/Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot with Lyrics

I will see you again in 2022 with new types of posts while bring back the favorite daily posts from 2021. Let me know in the comments what topics you would like more of in 2022. What posts and/or topics you liked in 2021. This is your website more than it is mine for all things pagan and witchy. I will be restarting the Tarot card explanation for each card on January 2nd. I will try to bring back more of the topics Lady Abyss covered. Let me know the average number of posts you would like to show up in your emails inbox daily and I will try to keep it to that number except on the Sabbaths and the week leading up to them. Online Esbats and Sabbath gatherings along with a bimonthly online open chat will be returning also. All gathering will be via Sykpe. You will be able to join us through audio and/or video chat or just by typing in the instant message part..

May you and yours have a new year filled with more love, joy, happiness, enough money for the things you need with some left over for things you would like to have. Blessings for a positive new year dear Sisters, Brothers, and Honored Guests!

December 31 Daily Correspondence Digest for the Northern Hemisphere’s Moon Phase and Planetary Positions

You can use this link to go forward or backward in time for Moon phase information. If you are curious you can even find out what phase the Moon was in when you or anyone else, you know was on the date the person was born.

From Moongiant.com

The Moon’s current phase for today and tonight is a Waning Crescent phase. In this phase the Moon’s illumination is growing smaller each day until the New Moon. During this part of the Moon cycle, the Moon is getting closer to the Sun as viewed from Earth and the night side of the Moon is facing the Earth with only a small edge of the Moon being illuminated. This phase is best viewed an hour or 2 before the sunrise and can be quite beautiful if you’re willing to get up early. It can also be a great time to see the features of the Moon’s surface. Along the edge where the illuminated portion meets the dark side, the craters and mountains cast long shadows making them easier to observe with a telescope or binoculars.

Visit the December 2021 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waning Crescent Phase

The Waning Crescent on December 31 has an illumination of 8%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On December 31 the Moon is 26.91 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases.

The 8 Lunar Phases

There are 8 lunar phases the Moon goes through in its 29.53 days lunar cycle. The 4 major Moon phases are Full Moon, New Moon, First Quarter and Last Quarter. Between these major phases, there are 4 minor ones: the Waxing Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, Waning Gibbous and Waning Crescent. For more info on the Moon Cycle and on each phase check out Wikipedia Lunar Phase page.

Phase Details

Phase: Waning Crescent
Illumination: 8%
Moon Age: 26.91 days
Moon Angle: 0.55
Moon Distance: 363,570.79 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 147,099,885.12 km

Useful Moon Resources

 

If you need to calculate the planetary positions for a specific use and time, click on this link

Currentplanetarypositions.com

To figure out GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) to your local time use this link

For Your Local Time and Date

Northeastern Hemisphere

The time for this Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Frankfurt, Germany, Europe

31 December 2021
04:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM CEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:10 Capricorn 11
Moon:10 Sagittarius 28
Mercury:27 Capricorn 42
Venus:23 Capricorn 27 Rx
Mars:12 Sagittarius 52
Jupiter:00 Pisces 29
Saturn:11 Aquarius 52
Uranus:10 Taurus 57 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 40
Pluto:25 Capricorn 55
True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 13 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:29 Taurus 33 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):18 Gemini 25
Chiron:08 Aries 30
Ceres:28 Taurus 40 Rx
Pallas:16 Pisces 23
Juno:17 Capricorn 15
Vesta:24 Sagittarius 21
Eris:23 Aries 42 Rx
Fire:5
Earth:8
Air:3
Water:3
Cardinal:7
Fixed:4
Mutable:8

Northern Hemisphere

The time for this Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Chicago, Illinois, USA

December 31, 2021
11:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM CST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:10 Capricorn 29
Moon:14 Sagittarius 51
Mercury:28 Capricorn 07
Venus:23 Capricorn 19 Rx
Mars:13 Sagittarius 04
Jupiter:00 Pisces 32
Saturn:11 Aquarius 54
Uranus:10 Taurus 57 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 40
Pluto:25 Capricorn 56
True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 13 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:29 Taurus 32 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):18 Gemini 27

Chiron:08 Aries 30
Ceres:28 Taurus 38 Rx
Pallas:16 Pisces 27
Juno:17 Capricorn 22
Vesta:24 Sagittarius 30
Eris:23 Aries 42 Rx

Fire:5
Earth:8
Air:3
Water:3
Cardinal:7
Fixed:4
Mutable:8

Yearly Horoscope 2022 Predictions

SunSigns.Org is pleased to present you with Horoscope 2022 for various sun signs. An individual’s life has many facets, such as profession, finance, love, sex, relationships, family, wellbeing, and education. Knowing how well you fare in each in the coming year is essential.

Human beings are subjected to the influence of various planets, and there are 12 zodiacs. The zodiac signs are Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces. All of us are eager to have an inkling about our future in the coming year 2022. Horoscope 2022 gives you general guidance based on astrology for the year.

Be prepared to face significant transformations in your life during the year 2022. These modifications will be for your good and cover many areas such as professional career, love relationships, and overall future. You have to be careful while making important decisions while making these changes.

You may have to tread into entirely green areas which are futuristic in technology and science. Also, new innovative ideas clash with old traditional thoughts, and you will be stuck between the two. Your progress in life during 2022 depends upon how you can negotiate through these conflicts and forge ahead.

You can have horoscope 2022 predictions for all the star signs free of cost. All you have to do is to click on the correct horoscope. You will get a detailed report on prospects in the various fields from profession to health. Predictions for the year are available right now for you as well as your friends and family members.

Aries 2022

The year 2022 for Aries people will be about collaborations and affiliations. Single people will get into love partnerships. Joint business ventures will succeed. There will be fresh ideas, and you will be busy with the execution of new investments. Married life will be harmonious and will see an accumulation of wealth. There will be more romance and sensuality.

You will be careless about your fitness and diet routines. It is essential to relax and come out with a new hobby or exercise. If you want to succeed this year, do not be aggressive. Listen to others and take them along.

Get complete details by clicking on Aries Horoscope 2022.

Taurus 2022

The year 2022 promises to be an incredible year for Taurus professionals. They can expect promotions to higher levels along with financial benefits. Business ventures which were dormant will come to life, and you will succeed. You will try to accommodate the views of others. Venus will stimulate your romances this year. There is scope for pregnancy.

Jupiter and Mars will make relations peaceful and harmonious. Your social contacts will encourage you to complete projects, and Jupiter will help you achieve success in ventures. Mars will help you to maintain health, and you will be busy with a new hobby.

Get complete details by clicking on Taurus Horoscope 2022.

Gemini Horoscope 2022

Planet Venus will help the Gemini star sign to shine in artistic projects this year. It would help if you went by your moods, and inspiration should be the guiding factor. Saturn will help to plan your life and strive to attain excellence. The beginning of the year will be turbulent for relationships. Venus will help you to regain romance during the latter half of the year.

You will succeed in business projects during the second quarter of the year with the help of Mars. It is essential to focus on a fitness and relaxation program you like to maintain your wellbeing. Try to do things that are possible during the year instead of aiming too high.

Get complete details by clicking on Gemini Horoscope 2022.

Cancer 2022

Cancer people tend to put others before themselves and go out of the way to help others. To avoid misuse by others, you should educate others to help themselves during the year 2022. You will be able to accomplish projects during the first and last quarter of the year with the help of Jupiter.

Love and relationships will bloom after the first quarter of 2022 with the help of Venus and Mars. Jupiter will help you to form new contacts this year and use them to succeed in your ventures. Particularly, the last quarter of the year will be highly encouraging.

Get complete details by clicking on Cancer Horoscope 2022.

Leo 2022

Leo professionals will progress in their careers during the beginning of the year as Jupiter is positive. Finances are excellent with a good flow of money. Saturn may help you in getting unexpected wealth. People in confirmed relationships will get married, and the family environment will be harmonious.

Health prospects are tentative during the latter half of 2022. Children will progress slowly. They will succeed in competitive examinations. Travels, including foreign trips, are likely, and this will help to advance in your career. You will achieve in life through diplomacy and elegance.

Get complete details by clicking on Leo Horoscope 2022.

Virgo Horoscope 2022

Virgo zodiac will succeed in their jobs and financial activities due to their hard work and inspiration. Jupiter will help to know your necessities. You will be able to prosper financially with the help of family and friends and the positive aspects of Jupiter.

Saturn and Jupiter together will help to maintain peace and harmony in the family atmosphere. Mars will help you to accomplish projects, and you have to stick to the requirements. Relaxation and sports activities can achieve emotional health. Marriages of children are on the cards during the year 2022.

Get complete details by clicking on Virgo Horoscope 2022.

Libra 2022

Jupiter and Saturn will present Libra individuals with prospects of managing their lives as per their choice and in a superior manner during the year 2022. Business partnerships might have problems, and professionals will have a reasonable period. Income too will increase along with expenditure.

Venus and Mars are favorable for love and romance. Single persons will get into instant relationships. The family atmosphere will face a few conflicts. You should avoid taking unnecessary risks in ventures, and it will lead to success. You can tackle stressful situations with exercise and relaxation.

Get complete details by clicking on Libra Horoscope 2022.

Scorpio 2022

The year 2022 presents plenty of shockers for Scorpio people. Professionals will excel in their jobs. Financial rewards will be excellent, while expenses are meager. Social life will be fabulous. Jupiter will shower you with more luck while Saturn tends to regulate it.

Love life will be delightful in the last quarter of the year. In all ventures, you have to listen to others and go by their ideas. Health will be fluctuating, and during taxing, times relax with meditation. Students have opportunities for education overseas.

Get complete details by clicking on Scorpio Horoscope 2022.

Sagittarius Horoscope 2022

Jupiter and Saturn will give different indications for Sagittarius personality during the year 2022. You can accomplish objectives by being pragmatic and prudent. On the financial front, you have to devise a plan for fiscal prudence if you have to remain afloat.

The family atmosphere will be harmonious during the second half of the year. Projects will take off during May and October due to the influence of Jupiter. You have to be realistic in your expectations. Health can be maintained by exercise and recreation.

Get complete details by clicking on Sagittarius Horoscope 2022.

Capricorn 2022

The year 2022 will be both promising as well as messy for Capricorn individuals. You have to double your efforts to succeed in the job as well as monetary situations. Hard work and tension will impact your health, and you will also vitiate the family atmosphere.

Children will have a tough time during the year. If they are of marriageable age, they will tie the knot. The year is favorable for students to pursue higher education. Do not be deterred by tough situations, and always think of alternatives.

Get complete details by clicking on Capricorn Horoscope 2022.

 

Aquarius 2022

Saturn and Uranus will impact Aquarius zodiac sign in opposite ways. You have to be guided by the advice of family and friends on how to get over challenges during the year 2022. You will do well on the job front, but income will be balanced by expenditure.

The last half of the year will be promising for love relationships. Success in your projects is guaranteed in the previous quarter of the year. You have to relax enough to get over the anxieties and worries of your daily life. Lean on others to achieve your goals.

Get complete details by clicking on Aquarius Horoscope 2022.

Pisces 2022

Pisces people should be prepared to face the vagaries of life during the year 2022. You have to handle these situations with an optimistic outlook. Be persistent to achieve your objectives in life. Finances will be tricky with mounting expenses.

Family life will be full of tension as you will not be able to devote enough attention. The beginning and end of the year will bring good results in ventures because of Jupiter. Health will be full of vitality despite the various challenges. Follow your instincts to succeed this year.

Get complete details by clicking on Pisces Horoscope 2022.

December 31 Today In History

Today’s Important Historical Events

406 80,000 Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine at Mainz, beginning invasion of Gallia

1744 English astronomer James Bradley announces discovery of Earth’s nutation motion (wobble)

1775 Battle of Quebec in American Revolutionary War; Americans defeated trying to take British stronghold

1861 22,990mm of rain falls in Cherrapunji Assam in India in 1861, a world record

1958 Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista tells his Cabinet he is fleeing the country

Today’s Historical Events

192 Roman Emperor Commodus survives poisoning attempt by his mistress only to be strangled in the bath in assassination plot

406 80,000 Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine at Mainz, beginning invasion of Gallia

535 Byzantine General Belisarius completes the conquest of Sicily, defeating Ostrogothic garrison of Syracuse, and ending his consulship for the year

765 Coffin of Ho-tse Shen-hui interred in a stupa built in China

870 Skirmish at Englefield: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army

1229 James I of Aragon the Conqueror enters Medina Mayurqa (Palma) consummating Christian conquest of the island of Majorca

1492 100,000 Jews expelled from Sicily

1502 Cesare Borgia (son of pope Alexander VI) occupies Urbino

Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV

1923 BBC begins using Big Ben chime ID

1943 NYC’s Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at Paramount Theater

1953 WFBC (now WYFF) TV channel 4 in G’ville-Spartanburg, SC (NBC) begins

1962 “Match Game” debuts on NBC with host Gene Rayburn

1963 Dear Abby show premieres on CBS radio (runs 11 years)

1971 KAID TV channel 4 in Boise, ID (PBS) begins broadcasting

1981 CNN Headline News debuts

1982 CBS Mystery Theater final episode on radio after 8 years

Today’s Historical Music Events

1680 Amsterdam opera at Leidsegracht opens

1879 Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera “Pirates of Penzance” premieres in NYC

1923 Harry Tierney and Joseph McCarthy’s musical “Kid Boots,” premieres in New York City

1955 “Vamp” closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 60 performances

1961 “lrma La Douce” closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 527 performances

1963 Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir play music together for the 1st time

1966 Monkee’s “I’m a Believer” hits #1 & stays there for 7 weeks

1967 “Henry, Sweet Henry” closes at Palace Theater NYC after 80 performances

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1906 Australasian Championships Men’s Tennis, Christchurch, NZ: All-NZ final; Antony Wilding beats Francis Fisher 6-0, 6-4, 6-4

1918 Kid Gleason replaces Pants Rowland as Chicago White Sox manager; reach World Series but lose in the “Black Sox” betting scandal; Gleason not involved

1920 Victorian all-rounder Roy Park makes Test cricket debut for Australia v England in 2nd Test in Melbourne; bowled by Harry Howell for a first ball ‘golden duck’ in his first and only Test innings

1920 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Auckland, NZ: Bill Johnson & Bill Tilden (US) beat Norman Brookes & Gerald Patterson (Australasia) 6-4, 4-6, 6-0, 6-4 for an unassailable 3-0 lead; ends 5-0

1921 Australasian Championships Men’s Tennis, Perth: Australian Rhys Gemmell beats countryman Alf Hedeman 7-5, 6-1, 6-4

1945 Before the biggest Adelaide Oval crowd of the season, batting maestro Don Bradman scores his first post-WWII century; 112 for South Australia v Australian Services

1950 American thoroughbred jockeys Bill Shoemaker and Joe Culmone end the year tied, leading the nation with record 388 wins

1952 Davis Cup Men’s Tennis, Memorial Drive, Adelaide: Vic Seixas beats Ken McGregor in 4 sets but Australia retains title for third straight year; beats US, 4-1 in Adelaide

2021 Year in Review Astronomy Picture of the Day

From apod.nasa.gov

2021 December 31: JWST on the Road to L2
2021 December 30: The Further Tail of Comet Leonard
2021 December 29: Giant Storms and High Clouds on Jupiter
2021 December 28: Sun Halo over Sweden
2021 December 27: Comet Leonard behind JWST Launch Plume
2021 December 26: James Webb Space Telescope over Earth
2021 December 25: The Tail of a Christmas Comet
2021 December 24: M1: The Crab Nebula
2021 December 23: Three Planets and a Comet
2021 December 22: Launch of the IXPE Observatory
2021 December 21: Solstice Sun and Milky Way
2021 December 20: The Comet and the Fireball
2021 December 19: Planetary Alignment over Italy
2021 December 18: Stephan s Quintet
2021 December 17: Gemind of the North
2021 December 16: Geminds of the South
2021 December 15: Comet Leonard from Space
2021 December 14: HH 666: Carina Dust Pillar with Jet
2021 December 13: Meteors and Auroras over Iceland
2021 December 12: Comet Leonard Before Star Cluster M3
2021 December 11: Postcard from the South Pole
2021 December 10: Eclipse on a Polar Day
2021 December 09: A Total Eclipse of the Sun
2021 December 08: Comet Hale Bopp Over Val Parola Pass
2021 December 07: Ninety Gravitational Wave Spectrograms and Counting
2021 December 06: Space Station Silhouette on the Moon
2021 December 05: Total Solar Eclipse Below the Bottom of the World
2021 December 04: Iridescent by Moonlight
2021 December 03: Comet Leonard and the Whale Galaxy
2021 December 02: NGC 6822: Barnard s Galaxy
2021 December 01: A Blue Banded Blood Moon
2021 November 30: In Motion: Uranus and Moons
2021 November 29: The Extraordinary Spiral in LL Pegasi
2021 November 28: A High Cliff on Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko
2021 November 27: Messier 101
2021 November 26: Great Refractor and Lunar Eclipse
2021 November 25: At the Shadow’s Edge
2021 November 24: Pleiades: The Seven Sisters Star Cluster
2021 November 23: The Sun in X-rays from NuSTAR
2021 November 22: Lunar Eclipse over a Skyscraper
2021 November 21: Introducing Comet Leonard
2021 November 20: An Almost Total Lunar Eclipse
2021 November 19: NGC 281: Starless with Stars
2021 November 18: Full Moonlight
2021 November 17: NGC 3314: When Galaxies Overlap
2021 November 16: Geminids from Gemini
2021 November 15: Light Pillar over Volcanic Etna
2021 November 14: How to Identify that Light in the Sky
2021 November 13: Rosetta’s Comet in Gemini
2021 November 12: M33: The Triangulum Galaxy
2021 November 11: NGC 1333: Stellar Nursery in Perseus
2021 November 10: Video of a Green Flash
2021 November 09: All of These Space Images are Fake Except One
2021 November 08: A Filament Leaps from the Sun
2021 November 07: The Cat’s Eye Nebula in Optical and X-ray
2021 November 06: The Galaxy Between Two Friends
2021 November 05: The Dark Seahorse in Cepheus
2021 November 04: NGC 147 and NGC 185
2021 November 03: The Horsehead and Flame Nebulas
2021 November 02: SN Requiem: A Supernova Seen Three Times So Far
2021 November 01: A Waterfall and the Milky Way
2021 October 31: Dark Matter in a Simulated Universe
2021 October 30: A Rorschach Aurora
2021 October 29: Haunting the Cepheus Flare
2021 October 28: Mirach’s Ghost
2021 October 27: NGC 6995: The Bat Nebula
2021 October 26: Jupiter Rotates
2021 October 25: Road to the Galactic Center
2021 October 24: Halloween and the Ghost Head Nebula
2021 October 23: 3D Bennu
2021 October 22: A Comet and a Crab
2021 October 21: SH2-308: The Dolphin-head Nebula
2021 October 20: Lucy Launches to Eight Asteroids
2021 October 19: Palomar 6: Globular Star Cluster
2021 October 18: Earthshine Moon over Sicily
2021 October 17: The Einstein Cross Gravitational Lens
2021 October 16: The Moona Lisa
2021 October 15: NGC 289: Swirl in the Southern Sky
2021 October 14: NGC 7293: The Helix Nebula
2021 October 13: NGC 7822: Cosmic Question Mark
2021 October 12: Fireball over Lake Louise
2021 October 11: Juno Flyby of Ganymede and Jupiter
2021 October 10: Full Moon Silhouettes
2021 October 09: 50 Light years to 51 Pegasi
2021 October 08: The Double Cluster in Perseus
2021 October 07: NGC 6559: East of the Lagoon
2021 October 06: M43: Streams of Orion
2021 October 05: Sunrise at the South Pole
2021 October 04: NGC 4676: When Mice Collide
2021 October 03: The Holographic Principle and a Teapot
2021 October 02: A Light and Dusty Night
2021 October 01: The Central Milky Way from Lagoon to Pipe
2021 September 30: The Hydrogen Clouds of M33
2021 September 29: Gigantic Jet Lightning from Puerto Rico
2021 September 28: Night of the Perseids
2021 September 27: Unwrapped: Five Decade Old Lunar Selfie
2021 September 26: The Red Square Nebula
2021 September 25: The Bubble and the Star Cluster
2021 September 24: Perseid Outburst at Westmeath Lookout
2021 September 23: Harvest Moon Trail
2021 September 22: Equinox on a Spinning Earth
2021 September 21: Sun Spot Hill
2021 September 20: Lynds Dark Nebula
2021 September 19: Rings and Seasons of Saturn
2021 September 18: Rubin’s Galaxy
2021 September 17: Video: Flash on Jupiter
2021 September 16: North America and the Pelican
2021 September 15: Cyclone Paths on Planet Earth
2021 September 14: Mars Panorama 360 from Curiosity
2021 September 13: Night Sky Reflected
2021 September 12: A Spiral Aurora over Iceland
2021 September 11: Saturn at Night
2021 September 10: Rosetta’s Comet in View
2021 September 09: M16 Close Up
2021 September 08: The Deep Sky Toward Andromeda
2021 September 07: NGC 520: Colliding Galaxies from Hubble
2021 September 06: Firefly Milky Way over Russia
2021 September 05: Earth and Moon
2021 September 04: A Falcon 9 Nebula
2021 September 03: NGC 7023: The Iris Nebula
2021 September 02: M51: The Whirlpool Galaxy
2021 September 01: Dancing Ghosts: Curved Jets from Active Galaxies
2021 August 31: A Blue Moon in Exaggerated Colors
2021 August 30: A Fire Rainbow over West Virginia
2021 August 29: Orbits of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
2021 August 28: Mars Rock Rochette
2021 August 27: Elephant’s Trunk and Caravan
2021 August 26: A Blue Hour Full Moon
2021 August 25: Solar System Ball Drop
2021 August 24: PDS 70: Disk, Planets, and Moons
2021 August 23: Abell 3827: Cannibal Cluster Gravitational Lens
2021 August 22: Explosions from White Dwarf Star RS Oph
2021 August 21: Triple Transit and Mutual Events
2021 August 20: Three Perseid Nights
2021 August 19: Bright Meteor, Starry Sky
2021 August 18: Rings Around the Ring Nebula
2021 August 17: M57: The Ring Nebula from Hubble
2021 August 16: Perseid Meteor, Red Sprites, and Nova RS Oph
2021 August 15: Perseid Rain
2021 August 14: Island Universe, Cosmic Sand
2021 August 13: A Perfect Spiral
2021 August 12: A Beautiful Trifid
2021 August 11: Mammatus Clouds over Saskatchewan
2021 August 10: Fire in Space
2021 August 09: Perseus and the Lost Meteors
2021 August 08: A Perseid Below
2021 August 07: Jezero Crater: Raised Ridges in 3D
2021 August 06: Stars and Dust Across Corona Australis
2021 August 05: Tycho and Clavius
2021 August 04: EHT Resolves Central Jet from Black Hole in Cen A
2021 August 03: A Perseid Meteor and the Milky Way
2021 August 02: The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in Light and Sound
2021 August 01: Pluto in Enhanced Color
2021 July 31: Remembering NEOWISE
2021 July 30: Mimas in Saturnlight
2021 July 29: The Tulip and Cygnus X 1
2021 July 28: Ring Galaxy AM 0644 741
2021 July 27: Flemings Triangular Wisp
2021 July 26: CG4: A Ruptured Cometary Globule
2021 July 25: Crescent Neptune and Triton
2021 July 24: The Edge of Space
2021 July 23: Elephant, Bat, and Squid
2021 July 22: NGC 7814: Little Sombrero with Supernova
2021 July 21: Colors: Ring Nebula versus Stars
2021 July 20: Thor’s Helmet
2021 July 19: Framed by Trees: A Window to the Galaxy
2021 July 18: The Andromeda Galaxy in Ultraviolet
2021 July 17: Alphonsus and Arzachel
2021 July 16: Love and War by Moonlight
2021 July 15: The Dark Tower in Scorpius
2021 July 14: GW200115: Simulation of a Black Hole Merging with a Neutron Star
2021 July 13: Saturn’s Iapetus: Painted Moon in 3D
2021 July 12: M27: The Dumbbell Nebula
2021 July 11: Find the Moon
2021 July 10: Mercury and the Da Vinci Glow
2021 July 09: M82: Starburst Galaxy with a Superwind
2021 July 08: Perihelion to Aphelion
2021 July 07: Flight Through the Orion Nebula in Infrared Light
2021 July 06: Saturn and Six Moons
2021 July 05: IC 4592: The Blue Horsehead Reflection Nebula
2021 July 04: The Face on Mars
2021 July 03: Along the Milky Way
2021 July 02: AR2835: Islands in the Photosphere
2021 July 01: Perseverance Selfie with Ingenuity
2021 June 30: Simulation: Formation of the First Stars
2021 June 29: Orion Nebula: The Hubble View
2021 June 28: A Paper Moon Solar Eclipse
2021 June 27: The Dancing Auroras of Saturn
2021 June 26: Pixels in the Sun
2021 June 25: Andromeda in a Single Shot
2021 June 24: Messier 99
2021 June 23: STARFORGE: A Star Formation Simulation
2021 June 22: HD 163296: Jet from a Star in Formation
2021 June 21: The Tadpole Galaxy from Hubble
2021 June 20: Sunrise Solstice over Stonehenge
2021 June 19: Northern Summer Twilight
2021 June 18: Devil Horns from a Ring of Fire
2021 June 17: NGC 6888: The Crescent Nebula
2021 June 16: Scorpius Enhanced
2021 June 15: Zhurong: New Rover on Mars
2021 June 14: Ganymede from Juno
2021 June 13: A Supercell Thunderstorm Over Texas
2021 June 12: Eclipse on the Water
2021 June 11: Eclipse Flyby
2021 June 10: Circular Sun Halo
2021 June 09: A Total Lunar Eclipse Corona
2021 June 08: A Face in the Clouds of Jupiter from Juno
2021 June 07: A Bright Nova in Cassiopeia
2021 June 06: A Distorted Sunrise Eclipse
2021 June 05: The Shining Clouds of Mars
2021 June 04: Blood Monster Moon
2021 June 03: Millions of Stars in Omega Centauri
2021 June 02: The Galactic Center in Stars, Gas, and Magnetism
2021 June 01: Satellites over Orion
2021 May 31: Mimas: Small Moon with a Big Crater
2021 May 30: Aurora over Clouds
2021 May 29: Lunar Dust and Duct Tape
2021 May 28: Total Lunar Eclipse from Sydney
2021 May 27: Mid-Eclipse and Milky Way
2021 May 26: The Outburst Clouds of Star AG Car
2021 May 25: The Moon During a Total Lunar Eclipse
2021 May 24: Lightning Eclipse from the Planet of the Goats
2021 May 23: The Galaxy Tree
2021 May 22: Markarian’s Chain
2021 May 21: Utopia on Mars
2021 May 20: M13: The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules
2021 May 19: The Jellyfish and Mars
2021 May 18: Jets from the Necklace Nebula
2021 May 17: NGC 4565: Galaxy on Edge
2021 May 16: NGC 602 and Beyond
2021 May 15: The Southern Cliff in the Lagoon
2021 May 14: M104: The Sombrero Galaxy
2021 May 13: The Comet, the Whale, and the Hockey Stick
2021 May 12: A Meteor and the Gegenschein
2021 May 11: Lightning and Orion Beyond Uluru
2021 May 10: Star Clusters M35 and NGC 2158
2021 May 09: Horsehead and Orion Nebulas
2021 May 08: Deepscape at Yacoraite
2021 May 07: Mercury-Redstone 3 Launch
2021 May 06: Windblown NGC 3199
2021 May 05: STEVE over Copper Harbor
2021 May 04: Space Station, Solar Prominences, Sun
2021 May 03: Apollo 11: Earth, Moon, Spaceship
2021 May 02: Clouds of the Carina Nebula
2021 May 01: Perseverance from Ingenuity
2021 April 30: Pink and the Perigee Moon
2021 April 29: Apollo 17: The Crescent Earth
2021 April 28: North Star: Polaris and Surrounding Dust
2021 April 27: Animation: Black Hole Star Shredder
2021 April 26: A Sagittarius Triplet
2021 April 25: Planetary Nebula Mz3: The Ant Nebula
2021 April 24: Streak and Plume from SpaceX Crew2 Launch
2021 April 23: Flying Over the Earth at Night II
2021 April 22: Planet Earth at Twilight
2021 April 21: Centaurus As Warped Magnetic Fields
2021 April 20: Ingenuity: First Flight over Mars
2021 April 19: The Galactic Center in Infrared
2021 April 18: Rainbow Airglow over the Azores
2021 April 17: Inside the Flame Nebula
2021 April 16: The Doubly Warped World of Binary Black Holes
2021 April 15: The Galaxy, the Jet, and a Famous Black Hole
2021 April 14: The Pencil Nebula Supernova Shock Wave
2021 April 13: Confirmed Muon Wobble Remains Unexplained
2021 April 12: Alnitak and the Flame Nebula
2021 April 11: When Black Holes Collide
2021 April 10: Zodiacal Night
2021 April 09: Messier 106
2021 April 08: 3D Ingenuity
2021 April 07: Threads of NGC 1947
2021 April 06: Mars and the Pleiades Beyond Vinegar Hill
2021 April 05: Veil Nebula: Wisps of an Exploded Star
2021 April 04: In, Through, and Beyond Saturn’s Rings
2021 April 03: Ingenuity on Sol 39
2021 April 02: NGC 3521: Galaxy in a Bubble
2021 April 01: Rocket Launch as Seen from the Space Station
2021 March 31: M87’s Central Black Hole in Polarized Light
2021 March 30: Red Sprite Lightning over the Andes
2021 March 29: M64: The Evil Eye Galaxy
2021 March 28: SuitSat 1: A Spacesuit Floats Free
2021 March 27: Exploring the Antennae
2021 March 26: The Medusa Nebula
2021 March 25: Curiosity: Sol 3048
2021 March 24: Aurorae and Lightning on Jupiter
2021 March 23: Mars over Duddo Stone Circle
2021 March 22: From Auriga to Orion
2021 March 21: The Antikythera Mechanism
2021 March 20: The Leo Trio
2021 March 19: Central Lagoon in Infrared
2021 March 18: Stardust in the Perseus Molecular Cloud
2021 March 17: The Surface of Venus from Venera 14
2021 March 16: IC 1318: The Butterfly Nebula in Gas and Dust
2021 March 15: Meteor Fireballs in Light and Sound
2021 March 14: A Flag Shaped Aurora over Sweden
2021 March 13: SuperCam Target on Maaz
2021 March 12: Messier 81
2021 March 11: Zodiacal Light and Mars
2021 March 10: NGC 1499: The California Nebula
2021 March 09: Perseverance 360: Unusual Rocks and the Search for Life on Mars
2021 March 08: Three Tails of Comet NEOWISE
2021 March 07: Pillars of the Eagle Nebula in Infrared
2021 March 06: Perseverance Takes a Spin
2021 March 05: A Little Like Mars
2021 March 04: Mars in Taurus
2021 March 03: Stars over an Erupting Volcano
2021 March 02: Ingenuity: A Mini Helicopter Now on Mars
2021 March 01: The Pelican Nebula in Red and Blue
2021 February 28: The Aurora Tree
2021 February 27: Perseverance Landing Site from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
2021 February 26: Mars Perseverance Sol 3
2021 February 25: A Venus Flyby
2021 February 24: Spiral Galaxy M66 from Hubble
2021 February 23: Video: Perseverance Landing on Mars
2021 February 22: Moon Rising Between Starships
2021 February 21: NGC 2244: A Star Cluster in the Rosette Nebula
2021 February 20: Perseverance: How to Land on Mars
2021 February 19: Mars Perseverance Sol 0
2021 February 18: Swiss Alps, Martian Sky
2021 February 17: Sun Pillar with Upper Tangent Arc
2021 February 16: Perseverance: Seven Minutes to Mars
2021 February 15: Landing on Mars: Seven Minutes of Terror
2021 February 14: Long Stem Rosette Nebula
2021 February 13: Stereo Eros
2021 February 12: Spiral Galaxy NGC 1350
2021 February 11: Cygnus Mosaic 2010 2020
2021 February 10: Firing Lasers to Tame the Sky
2021 February 09: Flashes of the Crab Pulsar
2021 February 08: WR32 and Interstellar Clouds in Carina
2021 February 07: Blue Straggler Stars in Globular Cluster M53
2021 February 06: A Northern Winter Night
2021 February 05: Apollo 14 Heads for Home
2021 February 04: Apollo 14: A View from Antares
2021 February 03: Found on the Moon: Candidate for Oldest Known Earth Rock
2021 February 02: A Colorful Quadrantid Meteor
2021 February 01: Lunar Halo over Snowy Trees
2021 January 31: Asteroids in the Distance
2021 January 30: Southern Sky at 38,000 Feet
2021 January 29: North American Nightscape
2021 January 28: Messier 66 Close Up
2021 January 27: The Vertical Magnetic Field of NGC 5775
2021 January 26: Central NGC 1316: After Galaxies Collide
2021 January 25: Southern Cross over Chilean Volcano
2021 January 24: Massive Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841
2021 January 23: Recycling Cassiopeia A
2021 January 22: The Milky Ring
2021 January 21: M78 Wide Field
2021 January 20: The Magnetic Field of the Whirlpool Galaxy
2021 January 19: A Lunar Corona with Jupiter and Saturn
2021 January 18: The Medulla Nebula Supernova Remnant
2021 January 17: Jets from Unusual Galaxy Centaurus A
2021 January 16: The Mountains of NGC 2174
2021 January 15: A Plutonian Landscape
2021 January 14: Aurora Slathers Up the Sky
2021 January 13: Arches Across an Arctic Sky
2021 January 12: A Historic Brazilian Constellation
2021 January 11: Moon Phases in 2021
2021 January 10: Star Cluster R136 Breaks Out
2021 January 09: Titan: Moon over Saturn
2021 January 08: NGC 1365: Majestic Island Universe
2021 January 07: Total Solar Eclipse 2020
2021 January 06: Striped Sand Dunes on Mars
2021 January 05: The Small Cloud of Magellan
2021 January 04: Sprite Lightning at 100000 Frames Per Second
2021 January 03: A Phoenix Aurora over Iceland
2021 January 02: 21st Century Wet Collodion Moon
2021 January 01: Galaxies and the South Celestial Pole

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2021 December 31

JWST on the Road to L2

Image Credit & Copyright: Malcolm Park (North York Astronomical Association)

Explanation: This timelapse gif tracks the James Webb Space Telescope as it streaks across the stars of Orion on its journey to a destination beyond the Moon. Recorded on December 28, 12 consecutive exposures each 10 minutes long were aligned and combined with a subsequent color image of the background stars to create the animation. About 2.5 days after its December 25 launch, JWST cruised past the altitude of the Moon’s orbit as it climbed up the gravity ridge from Earth to reach a halo orbit around L2, an Earth-Sun Lagrange point. Lagrange points are convenient locations in space where the combined gravitational attraction of one massive body (Earth) orbiting another massive body (Sun) is in balance with the centripetal force needed to move along with them. So much smaller masses, like spacecraft, will tend to stay there. One of 5 Lagrange points, L2 is about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth directly along the Earth-Sun line. JWST will arrive at L2 on January 23, 29 days after launch. While relaxing in Earth’s surface gravity you can follow the James Webb Space Telescope’s progress and complicated deployment online.

31 December Daily Correspondence Digest for the Southern Hemisphere’s Moon Phase and Planetary Positions

You can use this link to go forward or backward in time for Moon phase information. If you are curious you can even find out what phase the Moon was in when you or anyone else, you know was on the date the person was born.

From Moongiant.com

The Moon’s current phase for today and tonight is a Waning Crescent phase. In this phase the Moon’s illumination is growing smaller each day until the New Moon. During this part of the Moon cycle, the Moon is getting closer to the Sun as viewed from Earth and the night side of the Moon is facing the Earth with only a small edge of the Moon being illuminated. This phase is best viewed an hour or 2 before the sunrise and can be quite beautiful if you’re willing to get up early. It can also be a great time to see the features of the Moon’s surface. Along the edge where the illuminated portion meets the dark side, the craters and mountains cast long shadows making them easier to observe with a telescope or binoculars.Visit the December 2021 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Waning Crescent Phase

The Waning Crescent on December 31 has an illumination of 8%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On December 31 the Moon is 26.91 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases.

The 8 Lunar Phases

There are 8 lunar phases the Moon goes through in its 29.53 days lunar cycle. The 4 major Moon phases are Full Moon, New Moon, First Quarter and Last Quarter. Between these major phases, there are 4 minor ones: the Waxing Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, Waning Gibbous and Waning Crescent. For more info on the Moon Cycle and on each phase check out Wikipedia Lunar Phase page.

Phase Details

Phase: Waning Crescent
Illumination: 8%
Moon Age: 26.91 days
Moon Angle: 0.55
Moon Distance: 363,570.79 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 147,099,885.12 km

Useful Moon Resources

If you need to calculate the planetary positions for a specific use and time, click on this link 

Currentplanetarypositions.com

To figure out GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) to your local time use this link 

For Your Local Time and Date

Southeastern Hemisphere

The time for the Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 

31 December 2021
06:00 am GMT 5:00 PM AEDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:09 Capricorn 46
Moon:04 Sagittarius 15
Mercury:27 Capricorn 06
Venus:23 Capricorn 39 Rx
Mars:12 Sagittarius 34
Jupiter:00 Pisces 24
Saturn:11 Aquarius 49
Uranus:10 Taurus 58 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 39
Pluto:25 Capricorn 55

True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 13 Rx

Mean Lunar Node:29 Taurus 34 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):18 Gemini 23
Chiron:08 Aries 30
Ceres:28 Taurus 42 Rx
Pallas:16 Pisces 16
Juno:17 Capricorn 06
Vesta:24 Sagittarius 07
Eris:23 Aries 42 Rx

Fire:5
Earth:8
Air:3
Water:3
Cardinal:7
Fixed:4
Mutable:8
Obliquity of the Nine Planets

Southwestern Hemisphere

The time for the Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Sao Paulo, Brazil, South America

31 December 2021
08:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM BRT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:10 Capricorn 22
Moon:12 Sagittarius 59
Mercury:27 Capricorn 57
Venus:23 Capricorn 23 Rx
Mars:12 Sagittarius 59
Jupiter:00 Pisces 31
Saturn:11 Aquarius 53
Uranus:10 Taurus 57 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 40
Pluto:25 Capricorn 56
True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 13 Rx
Mean Lunar Node:29 Taurus 32 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):18 Gemini 27
Chiron:08 Aries 30
Ceres:28 Taurus 39 Rx
Pallas:16 Pisces 25
Juno:17 Capricorn 19
Vesta:24 Sagittarius 26
Eris:23 Aries 42 Rx
Fire:5
Earth:8
Air:3
Water:3
Cardinal:7
Fixed:4
Mutable:8

December 30 Daily Correspondence Digest for the Northern Hemisphere’s Moon Phase and Planetary Positions

You can use this link to go forward or backward in time for Moon phase information. If you are curious you can even find out what phase the Moon was in when you or anyone else, you know was on the date the person was born.

From Moongiant.com

The Moon’s current phase for today and tonight is a Waning Crescent phase. In this phase the Moon’s illumination is growing smaller each day until the New Moon. In this phase the Moon’s illumination is growing smaller each day until the New Moon. During this part of the Moon cycle, the Moon is getting closer to the Sun as viewed from Earth and the night side of the Moon is facing the Earth with only a small edge of the Moon being illuminated. This phase is best viewed an hour or 2 before the sunrise and can be quite beautiful if you’re willing to get up early. It can also be a great time to see the features of the Moon’s surface. Along the edge where the illuminated portion meets the dark side, the craters and mountains cast long shadows making them easier to observe with a telescope or binoculars.

Visit the December 2021 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waning Crescent Phase

The Waning Crescent on December 30 has an illumination of 15%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On December 30 the Moon is 25.77 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases.

The 8 Lunar Phases

There are 8 lunar phases the Moon goes through in its 29.53 days lunar cycle. The 4 major Moon phases are Full Moon, New Moon, First Quarter and Last Quarter. Between these major phases, there are 4 minor ones: the Waxing Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, Waning Gibbous and Waning Crescent. For more info on the Moon Cycle and on each phase check out Wikipedia Lunar Phase page.

Phase Details

Phase: Waning Crescent
Illumination: 15%
Moon Age: 25.77 days
Moon Angle: 0.55
Moon Distance: 364,985.44 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 147,102,172.90 km

Useful Moon Resources

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2021 December 30

The Further Tail of Comet Leonard

Image Credit & Copyright: Daniele Gasparri

Explanation: Comet Leonard, brightest comet of 2021, is at the lower left of these two panels captured on December 29 in dark Atacama desert skies. Heading for its perihelion on January 3 Comet Leonard’s visible tail has grown. Stacked exposures with a wide angle lens (also displayed in a reversed B/W scheme for contrast), trace the complicated ion tail for an amazing 60 degrees, with bright Jupiter shining near the horizon at lower right. Material vaporizing from Comet Leonard’s nucleus, a mass of dust, rock, and ices about 1 kilometer across, has produced the long tail of ionized gas fluorescing in the sunlight. Likely flares on the comet’s nucleus and buffeting by magnetic fields and the solar wind in recent weeks have resulted in the tail’s irregular pinched and twisted appearance. Still days from its closest approach to the Sun, Comet Leonard’s activity should continue. The comet is south of the Solar System’s ecliptic plane as it sweeps through the southern constellation Microscopium.

December 30 Today In History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1460 Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield (Northern England), Duke of York killed and his forces soundly defeated by forces for King Henry VI

1703 Tokyo hit by Earthquake; about 37,000 die

1906 The All India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India Empire, later laid down the foundations of Pakistan

1922 Creation of the USSR formally proclaimed in Moscow from the Bolshoi Theatre, Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR and Transcaucasian SSR

1924 Astronomer Edwin Hubble formally announces existence of other galactic systems at meeting of the American Astronomical Society

1950 Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia become Independent states within the French Union

Today’s Historical Events

987 French King Hugo Capet crowns his son Robert the compassionate king

1317 Pontifical decree “Sancta Romania” against spiritualists

1460 Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield (Northern England), Duke of York killed and his forces soundly defeated by forces for King Henry VI

1610 Hungarian aristocrat Elizabeth Báthory arrested at Csejte Castle on suspicion of killing and torturing hundreds of young girls and women

1621 English King James I cracks Protestation of Parliament

1665 “Messiah” Sjabtai Tswi departs to Constantinople

1666 Abraham Crijnssen departs to Suriname

1672 Baron Karl Rabenhaupt occupies Coevorden Neth

Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV

1936 Beginning of the “feud” between comedians Fred Allen and Jack Benny on Allen’s “Town Hall Tonight” show

1939 “Of Mice and Men”, starring Burgess Meredith as George, Lon Chaney Jr. as Lennie, is released

1953 The first ever NTSC color television sets go on sale for about USD at $1,175 each from RCA.

1963 “Let’s Make A Deal,” debuts on NBC-TV

1968 Frank Sinatra first records “My Way” with lyrics were written by Paul Anka and based on the French song “Comme d’habitude”

1980 “Wonderful World of Disney” last performance on NBC-TV

Today’s Historical Music Events

1689 Henry Purcell & Tates opera “Dido & Aeneas” premieres in Chesea

1731 1st US music concert (Peter Pelham’s great room in Boston)

1844 Opera “Stradella” after being rewritten is produced (Hamburg)

1877 Johannes Brahms‘ 2nd Symphony in D, premieres in Vienna

1884 Anton Bruckner‘s 7th Symphony in E, premieres in Leipzig

1929 Cole Porter‘s musical “Wake Up And Dream” opens at the Selwyn Theatre, NYC; runs for 136 performances

1944 Sergei Prokofjev’s 8th Piano sonata, premieres in Moscow

1948 “Kiss Me, Kate” opens at New Century Theater NYC for 1077 performances

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1896 Stanley Cup, Granite Rink, Winnipeg, Manitoba: Ernie McLea scores a hat-trick as Montreal Victorias beat Winnipeg Victorias, 6-5; first SC Challenge game played outside of Montreal

1907 Abraham Mills’ commission declares Abner Doubleday invented baseball

1908 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Wanderers outscore Edmonton HC, 14-9 in 2 game challenge series

1911 English cricketer Sydney Barnes takes 5-6 in 1st 11 overs v Australia at MCG

1926 Chicago Tribune reports the Tigers threw a 4-game series to the White Sox in 1917 to help Chicago win the pennant (never substantiated)

1934 New York Rangers and Boston Bruins battle out a 0-0 tie; first of a 37-game overtime undefeated streak for the Bruins, the longest in NHL history; streak spans over 4 years and includes 27 ties

1939 Bradman scores 267 South Australia v Vic, world record 34th double cricket century

1943 Phillies trade Babe Dahlgren to Pitts for Babe Phelps & cash

30 December Daily Correspondence Digest for the Southern Hemisphere’s Moon Phase and Planetary Positions

You can use this link to go forward or backward in time for Moon phase information. If you are curious you can even find out what phase the Moon was in when you or anyone else, you know was on the date the person was born.

From Moongiant.com

The Moon’s current phase for today and tonight is a Waning Crescent phase. In this phase the Moon’s illumination is growing smaller each day until the New Moon. In this phase the Moon’s illumination is growing smaller each day until the New Moon. During this part of the Moon cycle, the Moon is getting closer to the Sun as viewed from Earth and the night side of the Moon is facing the Earth with only a small edge of the Moon being illuminated. This phase is best viewed an hour or 2 before the sunrise and can be quite beautiful if you’re willing to get up early. It can also be a great time to see the features of the Moon’s surface. Along the edge where the illuminated portion meets the dark side, the craters and mountains cast long shadows making them easier to observe with a telescope or binoculars.

Visit the December 2021 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waning Crescent Phase

The Waning Crescent on December 30 has an illumination of 15%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On December 30 the Moon is 25.77 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases.

The 8 Lunar Phases

There are 8 lunar phases the Moon goes through in its 29.53 days lunar cycle. The 4 major Moon phases are Full Moon, New Moon, First Quarter and Last Quarter. Between these major phases, there are 4 minor ones: the Waxing Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, Waning Gibbous and Waning Crescent. For more info on the Moon Cycle and on each phase check out Wikipedia Lunar Phase page.

Phase Details

Phase: Waning Crescent
Illumination: 15%
Moon Age: 25.77 days
Moon Angle: 0.55
Moon Distance: 364,985.44 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 147,102,172.90 km

Useful Moon Resources

If you need to calculate the planetary positions for a specific use and time, click on this link

Currentplanetarypositions.com

To figure out GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) to your local time use this link

For Your Local Time and Date

Southeastern Hemisphere

The time for this Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

30 December 2021
06:00 am GMT 5:00 PM AEDT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:08 Capricorn 45
Moon:19 Scorpio 31
Mercury:25 Capricorn 39
Venus:24 Capricorn 06 Rx
Mars:11 Sagittarius 51
Jupiter:00 Pisces 12
Saturn:11 Aquarius 43
Uranus:10 Taurus 59 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 38
Pluto:25 Capricorn 53
True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 13
Mean Lunar Node:29 Taurus 37 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):18 Gemini 16

Chiron:08 Aries 29

Ceres:28 Taurus 49 Rx
Pallas:16 Pisces 02
Juno:16 Capricorn 42
Vesta:23 Sagittarius 35
Eris:23 Aries 42 Rx

Fire:4
Earth:8
Air:3
Water:4
Cardinal:7
Fixed:5
Mutable:7

Southwestern Hemisphere

The time for this Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Sao Paulo, Brazil, South America

30 December 2021
08:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM BRT
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:09 Capricorn 20
Moon:28 Scorpio 04
Mercury:26 Capricorn 30
Venus:23 Capricorn 50 Rx
Mars:12 Sagittarius 16
Jupiter:00 Pisces 19
Saturn:11 Aquarius 47
Uranus:10 Taurus 58 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 39
Pluto:25 Capricorn 54
True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 13
Mean Lunar Node:29 Taurus 36 Rx
Lilith (Black Moon):18 Gemini 20
Chiron:08 Aries 30
Ceres:28 Taurus 45 Rx
Pallas:16 Pisces 10
Juno:16 Capricorn 56
Vesta:23 Sagittarius 54
Eris:23 Aries 42 Rx

Fire:4
Earth:8
Air:3
Water:4
Cardinal:7
Fixed:5
Mutable:7

A Thought for Today

What Does My Spirituality Mean to Me?

Walking a Pagan spiritual path and doing some soul searching, I find it has helped me like myself and become a better person to all I meet. Part of my almost daily prayer is “Please help me be kind, consider, and thoughtful to anyone I come in contact with no matter how they may treat me, talk to or about me. Let my smile bring a little joy into their life today.” One morning I was praying while walking my dogs and a woman I had many run-ins with over the last couple of years start yelling something at me from inside her truck. I was just getting ready to yell back something equally offence when the Goddess or God or a Spirit Guide put those words in my head. So instead of what I was going to say I replied with, “Thanks for taking the time to talk to me. Hope you have a good one.” Needless to say she just sat there with her mouth hanging open, I waved and we continued our walk. The next time this woman’s and my paths crossed all she said was, “Good Morning.”  This all happened almost 5 and a half years ago and to this day she is not a friend but at least nice when we happen to meet. We use to at opposite ends of the block until I moved so it happens about once a week while still living at my old address. I know it was meant as a growing thing for me to tolerate nasty people more but I wonder if she grew a little too?

My fiancée’ is a non-practicing Christian and is ok with me doing spellwork, rituals, blessing our home, etc. the time. When at all possible I do my full blown rituals (Big altar set up, pre-ritual bath, etc.) are done when he is gone or I do them out in our side yard. Sometimes though out of the clear blue he will ask me to do something for him, for example, getting his ex-wife to quit spreading very negative rumors about him. Which I more than willing did a spell to bind her from talking or writing or texting or typing anything about him.

I have five children, three boys and two girls. My oldest son is Buddhist, my middle son a sort of Christian (believes in the Holy Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit but does not attend any church), my youngest son claims to be an Atheist but I have some doubts about that. My older daughter follows Lakota Native American traditions as well as some Christian and Pagan ones, my younger daughter is very Christian to the point that we have agreed not to talk to each other about our spiritual beliefs (Although I was raised in the same Christian church she attends with her family.) All my children are grown and live in their own homes which makes it easier to keep a small altar set up in mine all the time.

I also have three granddaughters and six grandsons, some are old enough to decide on their own what spiritual path they want to follow while other are not old enough in their parents eyes. Most of my grandchildren have inherited some type of special gift that can be nurtured properly with incorporating certain teachings into their spiritual lives. I am allowed to help five of the nine grandchildren with this openly. There is one I have to take small baby steps with because her mother is my youngest daughter but she wants to learn witchcraft. While this is not an ideal situation my daughter has begun to see the benefits of me helping her and is allowing me to do more with her. I do not want to force my spiritual path on any of my children or grandchildren but I expect them to respect my path as I respect theirs.

You may be asking yourself, “What does all of this have to do with the question I have in the title?” The answer is this what my spirituality means I have learned to have greater tolerance for people with  beliefs different than my own. I have learned that it is ok to walk with the Goddesses and Gods and be comfortable doing so and being out of the “broom closet” all most all of the time. I have learned not to be afraid to answer the question, “What faith are you?” when in the hospital or other times and to answer without shame, “I am Pagan.” My spirituality is not something that I cling to in times of need or make a show of on Sabbats, my spirituality is something I walk with in every part of my life and do so proudly.

I hope and wish for those who are new or even older to The Craft can feel the same way. I hope that someday all Pagans can be out of the broom closet and accepted in mainstream society and our spirituality is accept too. This is not going to happen overnight or by us hiding who and what we are. Be proud of the path you choose to bring you closer to yourself and any deities you may wish to interact with.

Lady Beltane.2021

December 29 Daily Correspondence Digest for the Northern Hemisphere’s Moon Phase and Planetary Positions

You can use this link to go forward or backward in time for Moon phase information. If you are curious you can even find out what phase the Moon was in when you or anyone else, you know was on the date the person was born.

FromMoongiant.com

The Moon’s current phase for today and tonight is a Waning Crescent phase. In this phase the Moon’s illumination is growing smaller each day until the New Moon. During this part of the Moon cycle, the Moon is getting closer to the Sun as viewed from Earth and the night side of the Moon is facing the Earth with only a small edge of the Moon being illuminated. This phase is best viewed an hour or 2 before the sunrise and can be quite beautiful if you’re willing to get up early. It can also be a great time to see the features of the Moon’s surface. Along the edge where the illuminated portion meets the dark side, the craters and mountains cast long shadows making them easier to observe with a telescope or binoculars.

Visit the December 2021 Moon Phases Calendar to see all the daily moon phase for this month.

Today’s Waning Crescent Phase

The Waning Crescent on December 29 has an illumination of 24%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. The illumination is constantly changing and can vary up to 10% a day. On December 29 the Moon is 24.66 days old. This refers to how many days it has been since the last New Moon. It takes 29.53 days for the Moon to orbit the Earth and go through the lunar cycle of all 8 Moon phases.

The 8 Lunar Phases

There are 8 lunar phases the Moon goes through in its 29.53 days lunar cycle. The 4 major Moon phases are Full Moon, New Moon, First Quarter and Last Quarter. Between these major phases, there are 4 minor ones: the Waxing Crescent, Waxing Gibbous, Waning Gibbous and Waning Crescent. For more info on the Moon Cycle and on each phase check out Wikipedia Lunar Phase page.

Phase Details

Phase: Waning Crescent
Illumination: 24%
Moon Age: 24.66 days
Moon Angle: 0.54
Moon Distance: 367,507.86 km
Sun Angle: 0.54
Sun Distance: 147,105,224.66 km

Useful Moon Resources

 

If you need to calculate the planetary positions for a specific use and time, click on this link

Currentplanetarypositions.com

To figure out GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) to your local time use this link

For Your Local Time and Date

Northeastern Hemisphere

The time for this Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Frankfurt, Germany, Europe

29 December 2021
04:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM CEST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:08 Capricorn 09
Moon:11 Scorpio 05
Mercury:24 Capricorn 47
Venus:24 Capricorn 21 Rx
Mars:11 Sagittarius 27
Jupiter:00 Pisces 06
Saturn:11 Aquarius 39
Uranus:10 Taurus 59 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 38
Pluto:25 Capricorn 52
True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 12
Mean Lunar Node:29 Taurus 39 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):18 Gemini 12

Chiron:08 Aries 29
Ceres:28 Taurus 52 Rx
Pallas:15 Pisces 53
Juno:16 Capricorn 29
Vesta:23 Sagittarius 16
Eris:23 Aries 42 Rx

Fire:4
Earth:8
Air:3
Water:4
Cardinal:7
Fixed:5
Mutable:7

Northwestern Hemisphere

The time for this Custom Planetary Positions is from the local time in Chicago, Illinois, USA

December 29, 2021
11:00 pm GMT 5:00 PM CST
Zodiac: Tropical (Standard Western)

Sun:08 Capricorn 27
Moon:15 Scorpio 17
Mercury:25 Capricorn 13
Venus:24 Capricorn 13 Rx
Mars:11 Sagittarius 39
Jupiter:00 Pisces 09
Saturn:11 Aquarius 41
Uranus:10 Taurus 59 Rx
Neptune:20 Pisces 38
Pluto:25 Capricorn 52
True Lunar Node:01 Gemini 13
Mean Lunar Node:29 Taurus 38 Rx

Lilith (Black Moon):18 Gemini 14

Chiron:08 Aries 29
Ceres:28 Taurus 51 Rx
Pallas:15 Pisces 57
Juno:16 Capricorn 35
Vesta:23 Sagittarius 26
Eris:23 Aries 42 Rx

Fire:4
Earth:8
Air:3
Water:4
Cardinal:7
Fixed:5
Mutable:7

Calm Communication Candle Spell

December 29 Today In History

Today’s Important Historical Events

1835 Treaty of New Echota is signed between the US government and representatives of a minority Cherokee political faction to cede all lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to the United States

1845 Texas admitted as 28th state of the Union

1903 French Equatorial Africa separates into Gabon, Chad and Ubangi-Shari

1911 Sun Yat-sen elected 1st President of the Republic of China

1997 Hong Kong begins slaughtering all its chickens to prevent bird flu

Today’s Historical Events

1170 English Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket assassinated before the high altar of Canterbury Cathedral by four knights

1503 Battle of Garigliano: Spanish army under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba defeats French forces in Italy, giving Spain control of the Kingdom of Naples

1539 St Jacob’s Church burns after being hit by lightning

1541 Isabella of Poland and King Ferdinand of Austria sign Treaty of Gyalu

1558 Charles V, King of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor, buried in El Escorial, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain

1653 Dutch painter Jan Vermeer becomes a member of the Guild of Saint Luke for painters in Delft

1705 Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon’s play “Idoménée” premieres in Paris

1708 Great Alliance occupies Gent

Today’s Historical Events in Film and TV

1806 Thomas Dibdin’s pantomime “Harlequin and Mother Goose” starring Joseph Grimaldi, in his most famous clown performance, opens at the Covent Garden Theatre, London

1913 1st movie serial “Adventures of Kathlyn” premieres in Chicago

1932 Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers‘ 1st joint movie “Flying Down to Rio,” directed by Thornton Freeland, premieres in NYC

1933 “Sons of the Desert” film directed by William A. Seiter starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy is released

1937 Lou Thesz beats Everett Marshall in St Louis, to win NWA World heavyweight title – youngest ever

1949 1st UHF television station operating regular basis Bridgeport, Connecticut

1955 Barbra Streisand‘s 1st recording “You’ll Never Know” at age 13

1965 “Thunderball”, 4th James Bond film starring Sean Connery and Claudine Auger premieres in Tokyo, Japan

Today’s Historical Music Events

1857 Franz Liszt‘s symphonic poem “Die Hunnenschlacht” premieres in Weimar

1902 “The Entertainer” is one of several piano rag compositions copyrighted for Scott Joplin by the US Copyright Office

1911 San Francisco Symphony forms

1948 “Rape of Lucretia” opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 23 performances

1982 Bob Marley postage stamp issued in Jamaica

1984 Blues took 27 shots against Islanders in 1 period

1993 Courtney Love sues doctors for leaking news of her methadone treatment

1996 “Dreams & Nightmares” closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC

Today’s Historical Events in Sports

1906 Stanley Cup, Montreal Arena, Westmount, Quebec: Montreal Wanderers beat New Glasgow (NS), 7-2 for 17-5 aggregate challenge series victory

1933 New York Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert refuses to release future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth to manage the Cincinnati Reds

1934 First collegiate basketball doubleheader is played at Madison Square Garden, NYC; New York University beats Notre Dame, 25-18; Westminster edges St. John’s, 37-33

1937 Lou Thesz beats Everett Marshall in St Louis, to win NWA World heavyweight title – youngest ever

1940 3rd NFL All Star Game: Chicago Bears beats NFL All-Stars, 28-14

1945 Montreal right wing Maurice Richard scores twice in Canadiens’ 5-4 loss to Chicago Black Hawks to record his 100th NHL career goal; reaches mark in 145 games, then fastest in history; since broken by Mike Bossy, 100 goals in 129 games

1955 NHL officials wear new vertically striped black-and-white sweaters for the first time in Montreal Canadiens’ 5-2 win over Toronto Maple Leafs

1957 National Football League Championship, Briggs Stadium, Detroit: Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns, 50-14; Lions score 2 touchdowns in each quarter

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2021 December 29

Giant Storms and High Clouds on Jupiter

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS; Processing & LicenseKevin M. Gill

Explanation: What and where are these large ovals? They are rotating storm clouds on Jupiter imaged last month by NASA’s Juno spacecraft. In general, higher clouds are lighter in color, and the lightest clouds visible are the relatively small clouds that dot the lower oval. At 50 kilometers across, however, even these light clouds are not small. They are so high up that they cast shadows on the swirling oval below. The featured image has been processed to enhance color and contrast. Large ovals are usually regions of high pressure that span over 1000 kilometers and can last for years. The largest oval on Jupiter is the Great Red Spot (not pictured), which has lasted for at least hundreds of years. Studying cloud dynamics on Jupiter with Juno images enables a better understanding of dangerous typhoons and hurricanes on Earth.

 

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