Why is the Moon out of linear alignment?
Wake me up when this happens shortly after dinner...
You didn’t hear what happened to the moon?
I prefer the early morning planets. I’m often on my way to work before sunrise and headed east to the train station. I like to see the brilliance of the planets along with thin slivers of moon on my morning commute.
That's a good observation. The moon in that part of the sky right now is running south or "below" where you think it should be (on the ecliptic) because the moon's orbit is tilted relative to the earth's equator by about five degrees. Two weeks or so from now it will be five or so degrees north or "above" where you'd think it should be. This also explains why we don't get lunar or solar eclipse every month. It's only when the moon is crossing the ecliptic when eclipses are possible.