“Mommy, I think those stars are leading me somewhere.”
We were at the park after dark and my son lay in the snow looking up at the sky.
“They are, honey.”
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The sky is a universal reference point – a set of data we all agree on. Whether we decide to call Pluto a planet (we do) or panic that the constellation Ophiuchus has created a 13th sign (it hasn’t) is irrelevant to the position of planets and points in space on the day you were born. Continue reading “Navigation”