Posted on 12/15/2022 2:59:19 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: On December 8 a full Moon and a full Mars were close, both bright and opposite the Sun in planet Earth's sky. In fact Mars was occulted, passing behind the Moon when viewed from some locations across Europe and North America. Seen from the city of Kosice in eastern Slovakia, the lunar occultation of Mars happened just before sunrise. The tantalizing spectacle was recorded in this telescopic timelapse sequence of exposures. It took about an hour for the Red Planet to disappear behind the lunar disk and then reappear as a warm-hued full Moon, the last full Moon of 2022, sank toward the western horizon. The next lunar occultation of bright planet Mars will be in the new year on January 3, when the Moon is in a waxing gibbous phase. Lunar occultations are only ever visible from a fraction of the Earth's surface, though. The January 3 occultation of Mars will be visible from parts of the South Atlantic, southern Africa, and the Indian Ocean.
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I saw that from deck ten of the Celebrity Constellation last week.
Mars has been putting on a show for the past six weeks or so. It was clear this morning at 5 AM for the first time in a couple of weeks, and Mars was close to setting in the northwest sky.
Doesn’t this portend a war or more war?
Mars... You know, Roman god of WAR?
Not everything.
Both your allusion and my response are 100% right.
My allusion? No, my joke.
Do you think I am a Roman Polytheist?
Oh nevermind, LOL!
Well, the Moon is occluding Mars so maybe the astrologists....I am not one.... would say the the Feminine Moon overpowers the Masculine god of war. There is probably something out there that discusses this.
Feminine Moon and Masculine Mars...
Who are YOU to judge their genders? Have you asked their pronouns, or do you just assume out of gender privilege?
/JK
When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars
Alas! Not just gender privilege, but 5 millennia of of gender privilege! :)
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/george_santayana_133920
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
George Santayana
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