I forgot to look at the full moon last night, so I did this morning.

[raccoon]

I forgot to look at the full moon last night, so I did this morning.

The sky was full of scattered clouds, but I waited until the clouds past and saw the moon in all it’s glory.

And for a moment I forgot all about the coronavirus mess, and it seemed like it was old times, BC—before coronavirus.

I have to remind myself, this too shall pass.

[samnsara]

1. im looking at it out my front window right now..beautiful!

[TNNurse]

2. It has been beautiful.

When we went to bed last night, it seemed like we had left an outside light on, it was so bright outside the windows.

[Bluethroughu]

3. Funny I was looking at it late last night...

Thinking the same thing. It was a painted picture. Be safe, stay safe. We will get through this, but understand we will never be BC.

We never got to before 9/11.

Take care.

[progree]

4. For west coast people - you can see Jupiter in the south or southeast skies, but hurry, the sun is

coming (maybe some mountain-time people too. For the rest of us in the mainland U.S., the sun is up or making it too light out. But for the next many many pre-dawns and dawns, it will be there)

Jupiter is a very bright white steady "star", magnitude -2.4, which is significantly brighter than even the brightest star anywhere in the sky.

To its east a very short distance (about a degree or two) is Saturn -- much less bright -- and then further southeast another about 10 degrees is Mars.

The sky at your time and location (or any date, time, location)
https://in-the-sky.org/skymap2.php

below and to the left of the sky circle is a "Display" box - uncheck the "Deep Sky" to get rid of the clutter that you probably can't see unless you live 50 miles from the nearest streetlamp.

For evening people, Venus is visible after sunset in the western or northwestern sky near the horizon -- a super-bright steady white light (magnitude -4.5 -- unintuitively, the more negative the magnitude, the brighter it is).

[RVN VET71]

9. Thank you.

I've bookmarked the page and will revisit often.

[zeusdogmom]

5. I saw it ca. 2:00 this morning

It was beautiful, almost ethereal.

And why was I outside at 2:00 AM? Zeus Dog is an old man dog. 😕 .... I experience a lot of nighttime skies. I do try to take in the special beauty and stillness despite the sleep interruption. It is especially quiet right now - no traffic sounds so the current nights are very special.

[lagomorph777]

6. Sleeping Satellite

I blame you for the moonlit sky
And the dream that died
With the Eagle's flight
I blame you for the moonlit nights
When I wonder why
Are the seas still dry?
Don't blame this sleeping satellite

Have we lost what it takes to advance?
Have we peaked too soon?
If the world is so green
Then why does it scream under a blue moon
We wonder why
If the earth's sacrificed
For the price of it's greatest treasure

-Tasmin Archer

[RVN VET71]

8. Sadly lovely.

[RVN VET71]

7. Bringing in the bird feeder last night

and looking in the sky at shining Venus as I unhooked the feeder. Took my mind away from cover-19. Turned around, looked up again, and there was Luna, brilliant, staggeringly beautiful. Stars twinkling like a chorus to a night song.

A pleasant escape, transcendent even.

(Have to bring the feeder in to disappoint Rocky, our uninvited raccoon quest. In the colder months, he'd try to get to the feeder before I did, but I'd turn on the porch light and catch him at it. Haven't seen hide nor hair of Rocky since the lockdown. He was a pest but I kind of miss him.)

(The mood that captured me as I brought the feeder in was shattered by an ear worm. An old Frankie Avalon song, silly song redolent of the silly times for a teenager back then, "Venus if you will, please send a little girl for me to thrill." And the verb "to thrill" in that early 60s context meant "to make giggle and smile," although we all snickered and took it to mean something more like what Billy Idol was singing about, much later, in "Mony Mony". So much for that twinkling night song!)

[sarge43]

10. The couple of hundred daffodils in our back yard are in their glory.

The frogies in Dismal Seepage are in full voice

The lilacs and rose bushes are dressing up

Hubby's on his way home with a nuke hive of honey bees. We should have some liquid gold this fall

Gold Finches, Cardinals, Blue Jays, Chickadees, chipmunks and squirrel are eating us out of house and home

The neighborhood Alpha crows are marking out their territory

Yup, the moon put on a show last night

Gaia abides

[panfluteman]

11. The Moon's Not Quite Full Yet

I just checked the online ephemeris at Khaldea.com, and the Full Moon, which will be a lunar eclipse that will not be visible in the United States, will occur at 12:21 Mountain Standard Time (just after high noon). But still, the Moon is very full. I camped out on the Turquoise Trail (I just moved to Santa Fe) on the night of the 6th because I had been impressed by the Moon when I went on a walk the night before. The full looking Moon did not fail to impress me, and I was bathed in its awesome light the whole night through as I slept in my car. But because the Moon was quite a ways above the horizon behind me when I awoke to face the rosy fingered dawn in front of me in the morning, I knew that it was not quite full, and the full Sun / Moon opposition of the Full Moon had not yet been reached. There are a few days, both before and after the Full Moon, when the Moon appears to be full, but is not.

This Full Moon of May, when the Moon is in Scorpio and the Sun in the opposing sign of Taurus, is called Wesak by those in the esoteric community; it was the Full Moon under which the Buddha was born, they say.