Tomorrow is the Winter Solstice. A well known Druid feast, marking the rebirth of the sun and a new year. It also marks the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, last seen 400 years ago. As NASA notes:
Jupiter and Saturn have gradually moved closer to each other over for months, and on December 21, the two worlds will be at their closest, around 1/5 of a full Moon apart. This is close enough that many telescopes may be able to see both planets at once in the same field of view! These conjunctions occur every 20 years, and this is an especially close one!
This conjunction is called the Great Conjunction as Space com notes:
On the last solstice of 2020 (Dec. 21), Jupiter and Saturn will appear the closest together in the night sky in 4 centuries. Some parts of Earth's Northern Hemisphere have been feeling chilly weather for weeks now, but the official beginning of winter occurs on the solstice. This is the point when the daytime is at its shortest in one hemisphere and when daytime is the longest in the other hemisphere. Dec. 21 is the summer solstice for the southern half of planet Earth. This year, the solstice happens to converge with a "great conjunction" that some have christened as an early "Christmas star" because of its occurrence hear the holiday.
The combination of solstice and Great Conjunction bodes for great changes. Perhaps New Jersey will see the light, then again it is New Jersey...jokes included.
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