Is there any significance to the crescent moon and Venus being so close together?
It happens every 18 months or so, when Venus catches up to the Earth as they both orbit the sun. And it happened December 30 2008 and this past January 28. And on November 30 2008 both Jupiter and Venus appeared near the crescent moon. This has no effect on the Earth – if it did, we would have noticed it by now (people have been watching Venus since prehistoric times). It is simply the apparent proximity of the moon and Venus in our sky from our point of view. By the way, planetary alignments can’t do anything to the Earth (even if a planetary alignment could occur) – in 1982 all the planets in our solar system were on the same side of the sun (about as close to alignment as they get) and nothing happened. Pole shifts take thousands of years of NOTICEABLE changes before they can occur – if our magnetic field continues in its current trend, the poles will shift around AD 3500.
