The cold black winter night sky is crisp and clear. It is a
black felt blanket infused with twinkling silver stars. Ptolemy’s Queen
Cassiopeia, the mother of Andromeda and Queen of Ethiopia sails by confident in
her beauty, followed by the courageous Orion the Hunter with his loyal
companion Sirius the dog star at his heel.
Tonight, the stars are a backdrop to the headliners of the evening, the Planets with their continuous bright light streaming down to the awestruck observer.
Tonight, the Gods are at play, as the spheres have been racked up
into an equilateral triangle and split with the cue ball moon rolling across
the night sky at furiously fast speeds, each unique and with vastly different
hues, compositions and properties. Each planet is resplendent in its individual
orbit and characteristics, drawn to each other like a family at Thanksgiving
but eager to spin off in their various directions, for their own purposes, when
social norms, trajectories, and gravity permit.
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