Jupiter, Venus and a crescent moon, photographed Monday evening by Harold LaBonte.

Some times in space and time – in this particular and amazing Universe – in a small insignificant corner of our awesome and magnificent Milky Way galaxy – in our Solar system with our light and life giving SUNstar ...

The beautiful slooooooowly ever-orbiting and dancing planets above our daily too-busy lives puts on a grand, unique and attractive beautiful sky show by joining closer together to catch our attentions to remind us that we are all Children of the Universe.

We saw tonight’s so rare, lovely and quietly spectacular joining of three heavenly bodies – just for you and me – on this clear and precious quiet evening, giving us a rare chance to stop our busy and distracting Earthly lives, for just a few inspiring moments, to look up at the joining of the crescent Moon and Jupiter and brilliant Venus … Reminding all in the world that we all live, love, laugh, cry and die under the same moon, planets and SUNstar.

As I walked out from my observatory office on this dark and so clear eve. I too looked up, and was re filled with awe and respect – as I saw this beautiful conjunction of planets and moon. I was so moved and reminded that we all are Children of the Universe and each able to – each new day as SUNstar comes up in the east – trust that we have a new dawn and a new chance each day – to be "response able" to choose beyond fear, anger and greed to choose light, love, peace and respect of each other and our homeworld – always and all ways …

Victor Stryker is an astronomer with the Taylor Observatory and Norton Planetarium in Kelseyville.

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