A note from the Kumamoto International Astronomy Desk (merged with the Astrology Desk due to all our new-ager interns): If you go outside RIGHT NOW (or do so just after dusk during the next few weeks), you’ll see in the west an amazingly bright object. That is Venus – the “goddess of love,” “Kinsei” 金星（きんせい) in Japanese, and the third-brightest object in the sky after the Sun and the Moon - which doesn’t set until about 3 hours after sundown at month’s end. On the evening of Jan. 28th, more than one-third up from the west-southwest horizon will be the two brightest objects in our night sky: a lovely crescent Moon and situated well to its right, dazzling Venus. So we’ll get this. Enjoy. - William