As I sit here writing, the sky is bright. If I were to go out to a park where I had a good view of the southern and eastern sky I, if the sun’s light were to suddenly blip off, I could see Mars nearly directly overhead coasting through Gemini. If I looked just a little south of east and 10 or 15 degrees up from the horizon I would Venus up front and Mercury and Saturn chasing her tail. They’s all be coming up on Leo.

If I were in Buenos Aires the three would be still far behind Mars but I would need to look north and they would be at about 45 degrees up from the horizon and Mars would be setting about now. In the northern hemisphere but on the opposite side of the world where at 9am this morning for me (it will be 9pm tonight for them), Mars and the others are not in their sky but Jupiter is (in Capricorn) and the moon is climbing in the southeastern sky (in Pisces). In fact where they would look in the sky to see the moon, is almost exactly where I would look to see the sun (in Virgo).

Is that wonderful to think about! There is so much more than we can see and even with what we can see, so many ways to see it.

So about 17:00 for me the sun will have moved low across the southern sky; Venus, Mercury and Saturn will be close to setting and Jupiter (still in Capricorn of course) will be rising. By 18:30 the sun will be just slipping down onto the horizon just south of west (in Virgo) and the moon (in Pisces) will be just sliding up over the horizon just north of east. At the same time, but in Aktjubinsk (Kazakstan), the moon will be starting to set. And at 0730 this morning while in my bit of the sky the sun was just rising and the moon had just set, in their sky it was getting dark and moon was just rising.

And for me, right now, the moon?  As of 11:00 my time the moon is directly opposite (more or less) the sun. What that means is that while the moon is for me invisible and below the horizon, it is really climbing the sky above the Caspian Sea at Aktau. In fact, where the sun is for me, for them it is the moon.

It makes my head reel.