Star Gazers

HEY STAR NERDS - ASTRONOMY AND# ASTROLOGY ARE DIFFERENT BUT DO USE OVERLAPPING CONSTELLATIONS.# LIKE VIRGO!

LETS FIND HER.

HIT THE DARKNESS AT TEN PM AND LOOK# NORTHEAST.

WE CAN USE OUR CLASSIC STAR HOPPING TRICK - ARC TO ARCTURUS AND# SPIKE ON TO SPICA TO FIND VIRGO THE MAIDEN.

START AT THE BIG DIPPER, AND FOLLOW THE ARC OF THE HANDLE TO THE ORANGE ARCTURUS AT# THE BASE OF BOOTES THE HERDSMAN.

THEN STRAIGHT OUT AND SPIKE ON TO BLUE SPICA# - MARKING AN EAR OF WHEAT HELD BY VIRGO.

THE BIG DIPPER IS AN ASTERISM, PART OF# A LARGER CONSTELLATION OF URSA MAJOR, VIRGO HAS AN ASTERISM TOO- THE DIAMOND WITH SPICA# AT THE BOTTOM.

ITS PRETTY BIG, CAN YOU SEE IT?

THIS REFLECTS VIRGO'S VISIBILITY, APPEARING IN SPRING/SUMMER WHEN PLANTS THRIVE# AND ABSENT IN FALL/WINTER WHEN THEY ARE DORMANT.

PER GREEK MYTHS VIRGO IS ACTUALLY PERSEPHONE# - DAUGHTER OF DEMETER, GOD OF AGRICULTURE, THIS IS WHY SHE APPEARS IN# SPRING/SUMMER WHEN PLANTS THRIVE!

KEEP LOOKIN UP!