Pug With Moon and Star

Did you see the predawn sky this morning? It was so marvelous and since the sky was cloudless at that time, it was breathtakingly bright and vivid as well.

ARTIST'S RENDITION OF THE PREDAWN SKY

You see, today was when Jupiter (lowest in the eastern sky) aligned with the crescent moon and Venus (the biggest and brightest of the visible planets). I was just mind-blown as I looked at it. This is similar to it EXCEPT the Moon a bigger crescent and was in the middle and it was all very very much a lot bigger!!! Like I could reach up and touch it CLOSE! Seriously!!!

This was a most unusual occurrence, after all; and not only that, but it was so BRILLIANT and AMAZING and any other superlative you wish to put in here. It was MIND-BLOWING, in a word. So, what could it mean, I thought? . . . I am pretty sure there is something deeper going on here because the site was just so AWESOME in every sense of the word. 

I immediately thought of Cat Stevens's (now Yusuf Islam) song, "Boy With Moon and Star on His Head." Maybe Cat was onto something there. Maybe the alignment today is the beginning of a time of LOVE in the World? I mean, there has been so much hate lately. . . so much killing and misunderstanding. I think everypuggy is walking on eggshells 90% of the time. Am I right?

Until the gift that someone left, a basket by my door.

And in there lay the fairest little baby crying to be fed,

I got down on my knees and kissed the moon and star on his head.

As years went by the boy grew high and the village looked on in awe

They'd never seen anything like the boy with the moon and star before.

And people would ride from far and wide just to seek the word he spread

I'll tell you everything I've learned, and Love is all...he said.

So if this is the gateway to the time of LOVE them maybe we need to acknowledge it and usher it in with great joy. Then we need to nurture it to make it grow and Grow and GROW!