NEW MOON ECLIPSE, at 9 VIRGO 21 September 1, 5:03am EDT, 2:03am PDT, 10:03am GDT, 7:03pm AEST Image: Orcus, illustration from PLANETARY GODS AND GODDESSES COLORING BOOK, by author. Book due out late September. This image shows the “Mouth of Orcus,” a...
HAUMEA, the Hawaiian goddess of fertility and childbirth, has given her name to a distant dwarf planet beyond Pluto, discovered in 2003. It has two moons, named for two of her daughters—sea goddess Namaka, and Hi’iaka, goddess of the hula dance. Another of her...
FULL MOON Eclipse, at 25 Leo-AQUARIUS 52 August 18, 5:27am EDT, 2:27am PDT, 10:27am GDT, 7:27pm AEST Image: NEPTUNE, from PLANETARY GODS AND GODDESSES COLORING BOOK, illustrated by author. Initial coloring by Ann Marie. This is the first of THREE ECLLIPSES, the...
ERIS is a mythic troublemaker, she who threw a golden apple into a party on Olympus. It had a tag that read, “For the Fairest,” starting a contest between the goddesses that no god was going to touch. They tapped an upright young man named Paris. Juno...
VIRGO is one of the few female constellations in the sky. She carries a sheaf of wheat, Nature’s bounty—rather like our own Vermont goddess, Ceres, on the Capitol’s golden dome. Often “The Virgin” is pictured with wings, suggesting angelic...