The Druidic College

The Sky is infinite-never ending. It meets the earth upon which we stand. Wave your arms you are touching the Sky. The wind is the Sky in movement. You can feel it on your skin. Sometimes the Sky is cool and sometimes it is warm, quiet and light. When the Sky is balmy the Sun has warmed it. During the day the Sun is visible to us sighted ones. The Sun is a large ball of fire thousands of miles from the Earth out in the Sky. The Sun is fiery orange yellow. Orange Yellow can be described as hot, sizzling, or warm. The Sky is light. Light can be described as warm or hot, yet cool because it is light blue. Blue would be described as cool or cold like running water from a stream or faucet. Blue can also be described as tranquil, soothing, serene, and peaceful. The warmth of the Sun causes the Sky to move. Warm air rises and cold air sinks to fill in the space where the warms air was, this movement creates the wind.

Sometimes there are clouds in the Sky. These clouds are formed from evaporation of moisture from the Earth, the dew from the trees, blades of grasses and so forth, from the warmth of the Sun. Clouds begin to form shapes from the density of moisture collected. You can feel a cloud when you take a walk on a very misty wet day. Clouds can be as far as several thousands of feet from the Earth. When clouds get too heavy, they release into raindrops. Usually when it is cloudy out, the Sky or air is cool. The clouds block the warmth of the Sun’s rays from warming the air.

At night you can see the Moon, the Stars, the Milky Way and sometimes other planets. The Moon also looks like a large ball in the Sky. It is a planet like Earth except there is no apparent life on the Moon. The Moon glows in the night Sky from the Sun’s beaming rays. It too is thousands of miles from Earth. The colour of night is dark. Dark is cool or cold, mellow and peaceful. The Moon looks warm but she is cold. You cannot always see the Moon. The Sun’s reflections make it possible for us sighted ones to see the Moon. Often when the Moon is rising or setting, it appears larger than at times when it is high in the sky, this is actually an optical illusion to us with sight.

The Stars are huge balls of hot gases like the Sun. They look like millions of grains of rice thrown up into the Sky. They look like miniatures of the Sun. They really are not, they just look like it, some are larger and some are smaller than our Sun. They are billions of miles a way from the Earth. There are millions upon millions of Stars. Think of throwing rice on a large floor. Place three fruits to represent the Earth we stand upon, the Moon and the Sun in a row with the Earth in the middle, amongst the rice. We cannot feel the warmth of the Stars.

Stars and groups of Stars have been given names. One group of Stars is called The Great Bear, the Ursa Major, or the Big Dipper. It consists of seven Stars. It looks like a big ladle in the Sky. Four Stars form the bowl and three Stars form the handle. There are many constellations of Stars although you cannot always see them because the Earth revolves around the Sun.

On a clear night we can see the band of the Milky Way in the sky that stretches from one horizon to the other. This band consists of millions upon millions of Stars that look like a faint mist in the Sky. Think of the Milky Way when you walk on a misty day and feel the mist upon your face.