Summer Solstice and Planet Moon Magic

The planet's northern pole was tipped as far toward the sun as it will be on this trip around the star today at 12:38pm EDT (or for me here in California, 9:38am); the Summer Solstice here in the north, the start of winter on the southern side of world.
And, while the solstice is a day long marked by humans for its importance to survival on the big seasonal world, the real spectator event today is the continued closing of the gap between Venus and Jupiter. The moon's appearance back on the evening side of the sun, sliding by the bright planets as the slim crescent has made watching the planet's narrowing even more lovely.  Last night the moon and Venus were the corners of a coat hanger-like triangle with Jupiter as the hook. Regulus, looking down on the planet pairing from its heart of Leo, itself moving westward each day, continues to lose ground to Jupiter but remains the end of straight line with the planets.
On the other side of the sky, Saturn still dominates the sky above Scorpio, although the Scorpion's heart, Antares, rivals the ringed world in brightness and shows a marked contrast in colors, Red-orange vs. pale yellow. Check it out, Today Off Earth.