Saturn in Taurus 2002
The astronomical rarity that occurred in 2002, the near conjunction of the visible planets, was recorded in the Harvard University Gazette in its April 18, 2002 issue. The image, copied from the page, shows the evening sky in April 2002. Later that year in June, the dawn rise of the constellation Taurus saw the planets rising with Aldebaran and the Pleiades star cluster, shown in the intro page for The Celtic Calendar 2007, beginning a new 30 year Celtic Age as recorded by Plutarch and Pliny the Elder. In ancient times, the dawn rise of the Pleiades occurred in May, from which the Beltaine festival arose following Romanisation. Actual photographs of Saturn in Taurus are shown in Saturn Return 2002 on the CA website.