How to follow the cycle of the moon

Ben Belinsky's Moonletter Podcast · Jan 31, 2025 · 7m

If you live in a city, you’ll know it isn’t easy to follow the cycle of the moon. If you’re in a desert or in the middle of an ocean and there isn’t a streetlight for hundreds of miles, the stars are so big and so close and you can watch the sky turning and the stars rising and setting and you have to remind yourself that the sky isn’t moving, it’s the earth that’s turning. And you can watch the moon changing over the whole month. From new to full and back to new again.

But in a city, there’s air pollution and light pollution and there are buildings cluttering up the horizon. And you might if…