Hi there everyone, glad you’re here with us to see what’s up in the sky as it relates to the Daylight Saving Time mark in the Spring – what we call the Spring Wink in the sky.
If this is your first time here, welcome, welcome to you. This post is part of a go-at-your-own pace, home school for grown-ups beginner course in Alternative Astronomy where we are reclaiming the knowledge lost to most about how the heavens above all of our heads moves.
What we are going to look at in this post is the opposite of the trick or treat in the sky as we focus our Alternative Astronomy lens on the Spring Wink.
Just like in the Fall, the Daylight Saving Time mark in the Spring is a moving date on the calendar every year because the Spring Wink will always be on the second Sunday of March, regardless of the calendar date.
We are going to take a look at the Spring Wink or the Daylight Saving Time mark in the Spring during 2022, the year this post was created.
We have an image of what is going on with the night sky story starting on March 10, 2022 the hour after sunset. We are also looking at the sky story specifically from the perspective of someone on the ground in the Northern Hemisphere from what we commonly call America.
We are choosing this on the ground location to look because we find most places in America participates in the observation of Daylight Saving Time where we turn our clocks back one hour the 1st Sunday of November and go forward an hour on our clocks the 2nd Sunday of March. Keep in mind that not all locations observe Daylight Saving Time, so this is only applicable to those locations that do.
Finally, as we orient ourselves, we are also looking up at the very special place in the sky we have nicknamed The Real Oracle or The Real All-Seeing-Eye in the sky which is found by simply facing due South and looking up above the horizon into the night sky.
Notice here on March 10th just after sunset, the star constellations we’ve already learned about in previous lessons, Pisces, Cetus, Aries and Taurus are all now found to be to the West side of the special cross of the North-South Meridian Line and the arc of the ecliptic. Notice that Pisces, the westernmost constellation in this scene has even started to dip below the Western horizon with on of the two fishes heads no longer visible from our perspective.
We’re looking again the next day March 11th at the same time of just after sunset and from the same location here on the ground and it looks pretty much the same as the day before, right? This is just what we expect to see, as we’ve been learning that the star constellations we’re looking at are moving only little by little to the West along the arc of the ecliptic as we track them night over night.
Moving ahead to the next day, March 12th just after sunset, same location and still we’re noticing the same thing. Notice Pisces is still starting to go down into the Western horizon and everything still moving along the arc of the ecliptic a little more to the West, as well…just like we expect to see.
When we go forward to the next day, March 13th, we notice quite a different sky story than we would expect since we are still looking at the same time on the clock and from the same on the ground location, right? This is the result of the Daylight Saving Time mark or what we call the Spring Wink where we jump ahead one hour on the clock, but that means that everything we’re tracking in the sky story jumps back.
This change in the clock hour has not changed the time of sunset in reality above our heads, but will appear that way if you are going by the time you are seeing on the clock…notice how Pisces The Two Fishes has appeared to jump back up from below the horizon.
We have to go ahead another hour later into the night now to see a sky story we would have expected to see usually without this little trick of real time traveling we have just seen here. Daylight Saving Time is an adjustment on the clock for those living in the Northern regions because of the difference of number of sunlight hours between the Winter and Summer seasons.
We will be looking more into this Fall and Spring Wink phenomenon in future pieces as they have become the subjects of many famous stories, but you just didn’t know it and one step at a time we will be uncovering this highest knowledge that has been hidden in plain sight and kept over all of our heads by many actors telling great stories oftentimes with a wink and a smile.
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Until next time…stay lit and be well,
shannon