Wanderlust: Following the Stars
Constellation Orion, the Hunter, dominates northern skies in winter. Favored by Artemis and foiled by Gaia who created the scorpion that stung him. Constellation Scorpio can be seen chasing Orion across the night sky.
Calypso tells Odysseus to use The Bear, The Pleiades, Bootes, and Orion to navigate his ship eastward from her island.
“Written in the stars...”
The long night gives time to stare and wonder at the stars. Ancient Greece named the stars for their favored heroes and followed them to navigate the ancient Mediterranean sea. Stargazers divine information about terrestrial events through the art of astrology. Constellations, mythology, astrology: all provide guidance for those longing to travel to a new destination.
