The Storyteller's Night Sky
Episodes
To Love in the Realm of Shadow
27 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On Tuesday, March 3rd, the Moon will be totally eclipsed by the shadow of the Earth ~ and some part of it will be visible for everyone throughout the ...
An Epic Convergence of Culture and Cosmos
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a mighty cultural and celestial convergence headed our way, and it's time to join hearts and hands for the good.
The Coldest Night of the Year this Week
18 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The first New Moon of the New Year happened on Sunday, and now we approach what is traditionally known as the coldest night of the year, the eve of St...
Celestial Highlights of 2026
28 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the time of year for considering the big celestial phenomena coming our way, and dream into what they might mean. So get out your calendar ~ he...
The Geminids, Phaethon, and the Year's Chariot of Fire
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The year's most prolific meteor shower radiates through the night from the region of Gemini stars this week, named for Phaethon who dared lead the...
Tuning Our Instruments for the Week Ahead
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The inner planets Moon, Mercury, Venus call our attention to the forces of destiny this Thanksgiving week.
This Week's Cosmic Negotations
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Moon is waning toward New Phase, when it stands between Earth and Sun; Mercury is retrograde and also about to stand between Earth and Sun; and Ur...
The Moon's Mystery and Meteors This Week
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Overnight Tuesday to Wednesday is the peak of the Northern Taurid Meteor Shower, which radiates into the night from near the star cluster of the Pleia...
Let the Moon Enkindle and Enflame Your Soul
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wednesday's "Super Moon" is like a mighty cosmic mirror focusing celestial light toward Earth, to enkindle and enflame human hearts with...
Moon Casts its Shadow Over the Celestial Gateway
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The constellation Capricorn is the “gateway of the gods” and this week the Moon casts its shadow across this gate when it occults the brightest st...
Orion's Belt of Invisibility
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The meteor shower of the mighty giant Orion peaks overnight this week, and with Moon at New Phase, conditions are great for casting your wishes up to ...
The Harvest Moon Secret
05 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's often said Harvest Moon is given its name because it's the Full Moon closest to autumn equinox, and because it’s big and bright, farmer...
A Starry Script to Lead Us at Equinox
20 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There's a terrific tale unfolding in the sky right now, with the great constellation Orion rising up in the morning sky in the east while the star...
Potent Opportunity on the Path to Equinox
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sun and Moon get in a game of celestial teeter totter with Saturn just prior to equinox, setting the stage for dynamic encounter with the self in an e...
A Holy Secret on September 14
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Moon was fully eclipsed last Sunday and will spend this week waning through its gibbous phase, until it arrives at the last quarter of its cycle n...
On the Way to Full Moon with An Eclipse Behind
30 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Sept 7 there’s a Total Eclipse of the Moon, only visible on one side of the Earth, in Asia, not in the US. The Moon will rise Saturday evening, t...
The Thickest Region of Milky Way Activates the Best Love Stories
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In August, there’s a formula for finding the most romantic night of the season: Once the Moon comes New, count seven nights while watching for the s...
Crescent Moon Bears Sunlight, Starlight and Meteor Light to Earth
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week's waning crescent Moon is a boat of spirit knowledge, bearing earthward all it has gathered in the celestial light throughout the month ...
Venus, Jupiter and the Perseids ~ Here Begins a New Life
10 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tuesday morning, the planets Venus and Jupiter will be spectacularly close, while overnight Tuesday, the Perseids come to their peak. It is the stuff ...
Tennyson's Telescope
03 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The convergence of things that takes place every year in the first week of August includes the seasonal cross quarter; the Christian Feast of the Tran...
Cross-Quarter and Star-Crossed Love
27 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The drama of Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' occurs in this season, and asks us to take care, for when we do not heed the abundance of lo...
The True Self in this Week's Piscean Pile Up
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There's a pile up of planets in Pisces this week, calling us to wake!
Uranus, Saturn, and the Moon
06 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a culmination in the stars this week, with Uranus changing signs on Monday, and Saturn beginning its four-month retrograde after midnight Sa...
Venus, Uranus, and Pleiades Meet Friday
29 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The stars that guide the soul to the most noble bonds of friendship this week.
Sun, Jupiter, Moon all Lined Up in Gemini
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The classical Greek myth of Leto and her twins, Apollo and Artemis ~ Sun and Moon ~ is unfolding overhead in the sky this week.
What Have We to Truly Offer at Solstice
14 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are part of an incredible planetary system ~ a living breathing harmonious social organism, and we are asked to take a noble place within it, espec...
The Moon of Milk and Honey
08 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Moon will be Full after midnight on Wednesday, looking south along the Milky Way river of stars. The June Moon is the “Honey Moon,” and since ...
Our Stately Progress Through the Stars
31 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The poetry and story this week is inspired by the planet Venus at its greatest elongation west of the Sun, which means the goddess of love and beauty ...
Last New Moon of Spring
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The cycle of the year unfolds in successive stages that are easily measured by the rhythms of the Earth, Sun, and Moon through the cosmos, and in the ...
Planets Gather in a Skylark Sky
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Into the morning triumph of birdsong before sunrise come Venus, Saturn, Neptune, and Moon ~ scene that only happens every 30 years or so.
Make it Emily Dickinson Week with the Stars
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Moon comes Full on Monday, then wanes through the Milky Way on the anniversary of the death of Emily Dickinson, a teller of the All-Embracing True...
Meteors and Mother Goose
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Eta Aquariid Meteor Shower peaks overnight Monday to Tuesday, while that Ole Mother Goose Cygnus the Swan takes wing over the Northeast horizon, t...
How to Approach the Celestial Gateway
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wednesday night is the eve of the season's cross quarter day, the halfway point in the Spring. At the eve, a secret portal opens, but we have to b...
In the Vast Fields of Starlight for Dark Sky Week
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's the week of the April New Moon, which means it's time for celebrating international dark sky week. And don't miss Venus and Saturn, s...
A Ceremony of Dew and Stars
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Moon gave way on Saturday, when it came to its Full Phase below the celestial equator, the furthest-away Full Moon for the year. And with Mercury ...
The Resurrection Forces of Spring
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Though the Sun came to its equinox moment two weeks ago, the Moon only yields its position of dominance in the Northern Celestial Hemisphere this week...
Neptune in Aries~Ours if Our Hearts Are Wise
29 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the planet Neptune moves from tropical Pisces into Aries, across the vernal point out of the water and into the fire. How will we meet it?
The Forces of Destiny & Our Writing Among the Stars
22 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The celestial bodies that weave with human destiny (Moon, Mercury, Venus) are making unique gestures right now, and with Neptune about to change signs...
Equinox, Venus, and the Sacred Marriage
15 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Equinox comes on Thursday like an invitation from life to celebrate our soul-spirit nature while Venus helps us know how this mystery lives in the hea...
Doing Shadow Work at Eclipse
08 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a Total Lunar Eclipse overnight Thursday to Friday this week (March 13-14), and the best way to prepare for it is to find a place to catch m...
Venus retrograde ~ When Love Speaks
02 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In its current retrograde motion, Venus is looking into the secret in human hearts, gathering them up for carrying to the core with us, when it meets ...
The Planets are Aligning ~ Don't Go Back to Sleep
22 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week the line up from west to east after sunset is Mercury, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter, and Mars, with Moon joining the parade on Friday. It begs the...
The Moon, Spica, and the Great Treasure Hunt
16 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Sun is moving through Aquarius stars, where all the star names have to do with good fortune, hidden treasure, and wishes that come true, while the...
For the Love of Venus on Valentine's Day
09 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Venus is moving among the stars of Pisces, which is associated with the forces of dawn. When Venus is there, deep mysteries of the heart surface and w...
An Emily Dickinson Moon
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Moon was but a chin of gold A night or two ago, And now she turns her perfect face Upon the world below.
Pure and Prepared to Leap Up to the Stars
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Year of the Snake, the star wisdom of Dante, and the Storyteller's Night Sky, which will continue on podcast, though this is the final episode for...
Everything Old is New Again ~ Or is it?
18 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The night sky is visually stunning right now, and astrologically dynamic, especially when the Sun rises with Pluto on Monday morning, January 20, 2025...
On Miracles and Mars at Opposition
12 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At a Mars'opposition the time is right to repair a mistake, to right a wrong, or to do something you’ve left undone. Knowledge and wisdom can grow i...
For A Celestial New Year
05 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The New Year started with Mercury leading the charge as morning star, and just recently, the waxing crescent Moon swept passed Venus and Saturn, on it...
The 12 Days of Christmas begin on Christmas Eve
22 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Once the long night of the solstice has commenced, it’s appropriate to reflect on the year past and to anticipate the year ahead, not just for a mom...
Solstice Week and the Inner Landscape
14 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At dawn on Wednesday the Moon sweeps past Mars in retrograde where it prepares a place in the cradle of the heart for all who are tuned in.
Christmas Meteors on Friday the 13th
08 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Before the 16th century calendar reform, Friday the 13th would've been Christmas Eve. The Geminid Meteor Shower peaks overnight the 13th, and it's wor...
Signs in the Heavens
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There are six stars, two planets, and the Moon making a sign in the heavens right now: the stars that form the Winter Hexagon; Jupiter and Venus, resp...
Moon Blocks Star of Abundance this Week
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Thanksgiving week there’s a magical event happening in the morning sky, one that begs the question: when am I central to what occurs in the world ar...
The Universe Goes as Far as the Soul Goes
17 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
3rd century Neoplatonist Plotinus wrote: The universe extends as far as the soul goes, but no further. The boundaries of its existence are determine...
The Journey of a New Life with Full Moon and Uranus
10 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Friday's Full Moon occurs near Uranus, which means that now we begin anew the great tale of human becoming.
First of Three Oppositions with Mars&Pluto
02 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A mighty week is upon us, inaugurated 11.3.24 by the opposition between Mars and Pluto that will occur two more times in the coming months due to Mars...
What Autumn Cross Quarter Day Reveals
26 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week is the seasonal cross quarter, or halfway point, which includes the mischievous festival of Halloween, followed by All Saints Day, then All ...
Whether Life is a Stone in Me or a Star
19 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Moon passes by Mars among Gemini stars this week, where the red planet will soon make its biennial retrograde loop, which finds it passing through the...
Timekeeping with the Stars
05 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A calendar is a brilliant mechanism formulated over centuries of sky watching that works with the magic of a time machine~tiny black boxes aligned in ...
The Heart of the Soul Weighed by the Stars
28 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Moon catches Venus in the great golden scale of Libra, where the goddess of love and beauty witnesses the measure of love abiding in the human hea...
With the Moon We Await the Poets
21 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet.
A Harvest of Stars on Beaver Island
14 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's Harvest Moon Wednesday, Sept 17 which begs the question: what is my harvest this year? On Michigan's Beaver Island, they have an answer!
The Waterman and the Sun King
07 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A fascinating signature of the Mysteries is appearing in the sky right now, involving the planets Saturn and Mercury and the constellations Aquarius a...
The Lavender Moon
31 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The last New Moon of Summer on 2 September 2024 prepares for the transition from outer light to inner radiance that happens at Equinox later this mont...
The Moon and Our Noble Nature
24 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Each month the Moon greets every planet, modulating the mood as it goes. This week, it meets Jupiter, Mars, and Mercury.
Blue Moon, Saturn Moon, Perigee Moon All in One
17 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The astrological omens this week suggest now's the time for sloughing off the dead weight and for moving out of stagnant situations.
The Gang's All Here
10 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sun, Mercury, Earth, and Moon align at square angle to Uranus while Jupiter and Saturn engage in the same, and all of this at Blue Moon Monday, August...
I Saw Eternity Last Night
03 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In August the Milky Way is like the brilliantly beaded belt of a sparkling garment woven out of stars and flung across the night.
The Tragic Romance of Summer's Halfway Point
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week a date of historic and literary note rolls around: “Lammas Eve,” which is the night before we’re halfway through the summer.
Venus is a Vital Power
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Venus emerges as our evenings star very soon, and will grace the western horizon until mid-March 2025. What can it mean?
When Mars and Uranus Take the Sky
14 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
All the talk this week is about the great meeting between the red planet Mars and the eccentric gas giant Uranus, which coincides with quick changes a...
The Secret of the World
30 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Earth comes to its aphelion Friday, when it's furthest away from the Sun, the same day as the first New Moon of summer, revealing the social harmo...
Moon as Cosmic Window and Magic Mirror
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
All in one week the Moon checks in with all the outer planets, and this as Saturn begins its retrograde.
Witnessing the Greater Self at Solstice
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week it’s all about the Sun and its solstice, but it’s also about the Moon, which comes to Full Phase the day after solstice, placing an acce...
The Aim of Waking is to Dream
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The messenger of the gods slips into hiding beyond the Sun Friday, while the first heaven is flung open wide by a growing Moon ~ time to heed the whis...
Joan of Arcturus
26 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Thursday, May 30th is the Feast of Joan of Arc. Arcturus is rising overhead from the East, the star of the shepherdess, beside the crown she would use...
A Michelangelo Moon
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Thursday's Full Moon blocks the star Antares, the rival of Mars, which means it's our turn to sculpt the red planet’s warrior forces.
The Secret of the Center of the Heavens
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Moon returned to its eclipse point Sunday, then moves through its dark phase, encountering the secrets of Venus before it comes New Tuesday night....
Beware May Eve
28 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The season turns toward its end on April 30, a turning that was considered an act of the divine in days gone by, a lifting of the veil to release buil...
An Explosion of Stars from the Crown
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Not to be outdone by our own star and its recent eclipse drama, a couple of stars in Corona Borealis are cooking up their own fantastic display when t...
Jupiter, Uranus, and the Moon
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jupiter and Uranus have a once-every-14-years meeting this week. Finding its meaning with the help of the Moon.
Shadows Carry the Whole Story
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The thrill of experience that defies our sense of the immutable
Here Begins a New Life in Love
31 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The beloveds Moon and Venus meet in the midday at eclipse, and so begins their new story.
Shadow of the Future Cast at Eclipse
23 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When the world becomes the mirror upon which the gods cast the shadow of the future.
The Higher Self & the Stars of Leo
17 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Moon waxes toward Full Phase among the stars of Leo this week, gathering up the kingly forces of the Lion before eclipse on March 25th.
The Price of Improbable Love
10 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The final resolution of improbable love begins Wednesday when the Moon meets Jupiter in the great adventure.
In a Bed of Daffodil Sky
03 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Venus faints into the light of the Sun this month, witnessed by Moon on Thursday, looking east at dawn.
The Hidden Promise of Leap Day
25 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At midnight on Leap Day, the waning gibbous Moon moves from Virgo to Libra, where it draws near the star Zubenelgenubi, with an invitation to find lif...
Forty Days with the Moon
18 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There are 40 days from the Feb 24 Full Moon at apogee to the April 8 Total Solar Eclipse at New Moon, for our gradually growing wholeness.
All Love Meets with Its Return
11 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Only once every 12 years will the Olympian King of the Gods stand beside the lead star of the zodiac with the Moon sweeping by on Valentine’s Day, a...
The Love From Which We are Born
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As our morning star, Venus is sowing love and beauty into the world, while the Moon sweeps by as a thin sliver of itself, and Mars fades from view.
The Poetic Calendar
28 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Botticelli's Primavera comes poetically to life overhead this week when Moon meets Spica at cross-quarter time in the morning sky.
The Great Cosmic Mirror of the Moon
21 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Musings on the meaning of first Full Moon of the new year.
The Amen of the Universe
14 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Venus, Mercury, and Mars cross through the morning Milky Way, bringing to mind the inspiring words of German mystic poet Novalis.
The Long Night's Festival
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
At the stillness of Solstice, Mercury slips in between Earth and Sun, listening in the year's midnight.
A Meteor Shower of Faith, Hope, and Love
10 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Geminid Meteor Shower peaks overnight Wednesday to Thursday, inspiring images from “The Paradise” of Dante’s Divine Comedy into the season....
Moon and Venus and the Three Kings
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Moon and Venus are spectacular at dawn this week, with a fairy tale tucked in besides.
The Moon Rises with a Magic Tale
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As the northern part of the world leans toward the dark, the night lights up with a magic tale of the boy-hero Jack, fortifying us all for the way ahe...
For Love is a Light of Heaven
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week the mystery of the sky is in truly seeing Venus, carried through the dawn's early light in the arms of abundance.