Freyja Spring, Priestess

09/06/2025

09/03/2025

09/01/2025

**Aurora Watch Monday Night**

If you want to see the northern lights, and you live in the Great Lakes region, including all of Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana, you should make plans to watch the sky on Monday night. Nothing is a guarantee, of course. Aurora forecasts are wrong more than weather forecasts, but we do know that a strong coronal mass ejection will hit Earth. That should create a strong geomagnetic storm, and the timing appears to favor Monday night. The Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a G3 storm watch for after 8pm Monday. The sky should be mostly clear across the entire region (and most of the country). Long story short, if you want to see the aurora, this opportunity is among your best chances unless you travel to Alaska (or another place under the aurora oval). The one downside is the moonlight. The moon is about 70% full, but the moon will set around 1am. So there is a chance of seeing the northern lights as early as 9pm on Monday in our region. For those who are up very late, the sky will become darker after 1am as the moon sets. The aurora chance is there through the night after 9pm. If you are serious about watching the sky Monday night, you need to get away from city lights. If you search your app store or Google and type in "light pollution map" or "dark sky finder," you will find light pollution maps. Getting out of the dark red or white zones on the map will help a lot. The darker the sky, the better. The image below is from last October when a strong geomagnetic storm, along with a similar brightness of the moon, was present. The aurora shot was from Maumee Bay State Park. This spot has light pollution, but it is much lower than in the city of Toledo. Stay tuned, I will have more updates as new information becomes available.

09/01/2025

08/27/2025

08/26/2025

I was hitchhiking through the high desert and walking through an outside food court, and a raven flies down onto a table w/ a family eating & spreads his wings and caws right at me, stopping me in my tracks. The people on the table are frozen, completely in shock, but I laugh and say "Ok ok, you got my attention, now what?" He does nothing, just stands there, wings spread, so I walk off and at least 20 people still gaping at me like I'm a WITCH or something! 😂

08/25/2025

08/25/2025

08/24/2025

Wow, this gave me the chills, hard