Found: Mexico City, 1790, 12 feet diameter.
Solar calendar, cardinal points of the universe.
15th-century science and religion, mixed with blood
from those sacrificed to keep the Sun
in motion and the remaining world alive.
The Sun Stone
Tag sun
In Opposition
We pass each other all day moving
in opposition like Jupiter and the Sun.
The Earth between us should be familiar,
home, but it is an alien landscape.
I am Jupiter, up all night, orbiting.
Relativity
Again I watch the sun rise east
climbing over me, stationary in my home,
and setting, as always, to the west.
If at the North or South Poles,
that’s not so. No East. No West.
Spring came early this year – a day
early astronomically speaking, but weeks earlier relatively,
based on my garden’s buds and shoots.
Perhaps not North of me and not
the Southern Hemisphere, where spring is autumn.
It’s a month of Saturdays in retirement.
Or perhaps every day is now Wednesday,
since weekend days still seem somehow special
hanging off my calendar in another color.
Are there still 24 hours each day?
Mercury in Transit
Inner planet Mercury transits the sun today.
Astrologers pay attention. A small black dot
crossing the sun’s face. The last transit
was 2016 but the next is 2032.
Sun transiting my face this cold afternoon.
Flying Between the Sun and Jupiter
today, along with all of you. Earth
moves between largest planet and our star.
I like traveling in our solar system.
Astronomers say it’s an opposition of Jupiter.
But I am not opposed to either.
Hubble Captures Vivid Auroras in Jupiter’s Polar Atmosphere – NASA image
Jupiter is at its closest this year (opposition) on June 12. Jupiter shines more brightly than any star in the evening sky. At this 2019 opposition, Jupiter shines in the vicinity of Antares, the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius the Scorpion. You can see both Venus and Jupiter at morning dawn if you have an unobstructed view. Venus will be low in the east while Jupiter is low in the west.
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Bright Energy
The new green is amused by raindrops.
How they plop, roll, sit and soak.
One droplet magnifies the leaf veins center.
A star, a circle, coming together and
radiating out with the Sun’s bright energy.
Writing the Day 