Author: Cynthia Hansen Zehm

June 18 to 25, 2015   Visible planets: Morning: Mercury  Evening: Venus, Jupiter, Saturn It’s Summer Solstice and Bluegrass in Telluride. How often these two stellar events coincide with each other. And rightly so. The Telluride Bluegrass Festival is a premier event celebrating music, mountains and the...

June 11 to 18, 2015  Visible planets: Morning: Mercury  Evening: Venus, Jupiter, Saturn Here we are, the middle of June, with summer solstice rapidly approaching. Yesterday it rained cats and dogs, water everywhere. A little natural-flow pond appeared in our yard around our healthiest aspen tree,...

June 4 to 11, 2015  Visible planets: Morning: Mercury  Evening: Venus, Jupiter, Saturn It’s pouring rain and I’m thinking about the Chamber Day Celebration planned for today in Norwood. There’s a free pancake breakfast, a community yard sale and a pulled pork BBQ lunch at the...

May 28 to June 4, 2015  Visible planets: Morning: none Evening: Venus, Jupiter, Saturn Full Moons bring light to dark, illuminating what has been hidden, or in the shadows of our lives and consciousness. On a full Moon, we experience the Sun and Moon aligned in...

May 21 to 28, 2015   Visible planets: Morning: none   Evening: Venus, Jupiter Already I see the fallout of a late-degree Taurus New Moon [May 17th @ 10:13pm MDT], followed quickly by the station retrograde of Mercury in mid-degree Gemini [May 18th @ 7:50pm], both of which...

May 14 to 21, 2015   Visible planets: Morning: Saturn   Evening: Mercury, Venus, Jupiter This week we are graced with the advent of a May 17th late degree Taurus New Moon, followed the next day by a Mercury station retrograde in mid-degree Gemini. This translates as a...

May 7 to 14, 2015  Visible planets: Morning: Saturn         Evening: Mercury, Venus, Jupiter Here in the San Juans, the green, green grass of Taurus is often covered with snow. Moisture comes in a variety of guises, but its purpose remains the same: Water, aka H2O. Establish,...

April 23 to 30, 2015   Visible planets: Morning: Saturn         Evening: Mercury, Venus, Jupiter It’s off-season in the San Juans, and it’s actually one of the best kept, most precious, secret times of year to be here. Really? I drove to Telluride yesterday evening to attend a...

April 23 to 30, 2015  Visible planets: Morning: Saturn   Evening: Mercury, Venus, Jupiter The Taurus zodiac month lasts from approximately April 19th to May 20th of every year, but due to the fact that the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution around the...

April 16 to 23, 2015  Visible planets: Morning: Saturn         Evening: Venus, Jupiter A late degree Aries New Moon – which will always take place in the final week of the Aries zodiac month – is a good time to really get going on spring projects. The...