I FINALLY FOUND DRACO. i have tried over and over to put draco together, never able, but Tonight, i finally saw it. also found hercules and one called alderamin. constellations feel good.

•  spotting scorpio.
• i was very distracted by my inspiration and wrote a lot of great things.
• my body has calmed down.
• i meditated and it was healing.
• i was awake to heard the birds start chirping for the millionth night in a row.  i’m starting to really appreciate that.
• i got to see my favourite art school faculty, vincent, who i haven’t seen in weeks.
• i’m almost finished with my capstone paper.
• i can see a light at the end of the capstone art tunnel.
• we had a really excellent intentional community house meeting today.
• truly excellent.
• i got to make out on a trampoline in broad daylight.  ikr?

i decided i have to sleep in the lobby of the art school so that i will not sleep through 20th Century Native American Art History again.  (that’s not the hightlight.)

so when i was talking to the art school with all my luggage and my quilt, i just happened to look up at the sky and immediately saw Scorpio.  i’ve never located him in the sky, but i sewed on his button stars.  i couldn’t make out his tail, but definitely his head and neck.

a list of constellations i can readily recognise:
scorpio 
leo
casseopia
andromeda (but i can never remember her name) 
cygnus/the southern cross - i also know some of its star names, including my favourite star, albireo
lyra
orion  - know some of its star names
ursa major
sometimes i’m pretty sure i can see draco
sometimes i can find pegasus

 

my entire life, i’ve loved the stars.  i wanted to be an astronaut for YEARS as a child (it hasn’t completely gone away, but i’m not that devoted to math and science).  i had a planishphere (star chart) as a child, but never used it.  i recently acquired one again and i’ve started using it.  one day i just realised there are a million things we WANT to do, but for whatever reason never engage in them.  i used to have a long list of those things, now i just do most of them (except i haven’t started taking bellydancing classes because those cost money).  i teach myself about a constellation a month, i knit, i’ve been riding my bike again and learning basic bike maintenance, and so on.
i think art school did it.  it taught me that you can actually do those things you want to do.  growing up, i wanted to do art, but i was at a loss for tools.  art school gave me the tools and taught me that there are a million resources for anything you want to do, you just have to get off your rear and DO IT.

my next project is learning about non-greco-roman constellations.  the mayans and vikings both had their own unique stories and formations, and since there is a separate chinese zodiac, i’m guessing they do as well.
all i know right now is that the three (greco-roman, mayan, and viking) cultures recognised the three stars we know of as orion’s belt.  i think that’s going to be a large part of my work for serigraphy this semestre.

constellations i can spot sans aide:

orion
gemini
taurus
ursa major
cygnus
lyra
cassiopeia
andromeda
leo, sometimes
draco, sometimes

stars i can find and know the name of:
castor
pollux
(parts of gemini)
albireo
deneb
(parts of cygnus)
betelgeuse
(part of orion)