I’ll follow the Sun

Through an odd coincidence, I started writing this post when the Sun was in Cancer, but by the time I’m done and get it published, the Sun will be in Leo. Don’t worry, this isn’t an astrology post—I don’t want to anger John Gruber—but it is a further coincidence that I’ve been puttering around with observational astronomy calculations at a time when there’s been some controversy in the Apple world about astronomy vs. astrology. I’m often out walking at night, and a few months ago—when Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter were near each other and close to Castor and Pollux, the Gemini twins—I started thinking it would be nice to be able to write little scripts that would tell me where the planets were and when they’d be easily visible. One of the fun features would be including information on which constellation the planets were in. This led me on a fun journey of discovery, the sort of thing AI companies want us to forget how to do. I learned that official boundaries for the Western…