All Hallows' Full Moon and the Great Conjunction
Desert Oracle Radio
Ken Layne
4.9 • 852 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
It's almost Halloween and we've been too worried to notice, but now that the good weather is here and the veil is thin, make sure you get out beneath the Halloween Full Moon. Our bird-biologist friend C. Del Desierto joins us for strange tales of the desert eagle spotter.
And do prepare yourself for the Great Conjunction of 2020, which you can watch happen in real time, by watching Saturn and Jupiter grow ever closer together in our night sky. When the solstice arrives, December 21, well you'll sure know it.
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| 0:00.0 | Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California, now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert. |
| 0:16.0 | Night has fallen on the desert. |
| 0:23.6 | Mars looming in the eastern sky. |
| 0:30.6 | Jupiter and Saturn, heavy and lingering to the south. |
| 0:40.6 | The planets have been close at hand. |
| 0:47.4 | And something about these weeks of wildfire smoke. |
| 0:55.1 | All that mess in the atmosphere over our desert skies |
| 1:05.3 | has made the planets sinister and overwhelming. |
| 1:22.2 | When I was a young child, maybe |
| 1:26.1 | seven or eight years old, I had an ongoing series of dreams |
| 1:35.3 | of nightmares. |
| 1:40.3 | They were all the same and they all left me shaken. |
| 1:50.7 | In these dreams I would walk outside in the evening and the sky was filled with planets. |
| 2:02.7 | Not the bright dots we know, but planets as they looked in the NASA illustrations. |
| 2:12.6 | In the textbooks. |
| 2:21.3 | Jupiter in the textbooks. Jupiter triple the size of our harvest moon, |
| 2:25.3 | Saturn taking up a fifth of the sky. |
| 2:29.3 | Its rings extending beyond the horizon. |
| 2:39.0 | Mars red and bloody and heavy like you could reach up and touch it. |
| 2:50.0 | Reach up and be struck down barely space for them all in the sky what did it mean |
| 3:04.6 | this year by late summer What did it mean? |
| 3:16.3 | This year, by late summertime, when I walked beneath Jupiter and Saturn and Mars, when even Venus felt heavy watching us, |
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