You may have trouble seeing it at all, so binoculars are definitely a must. Don't bother if you think that such conjunctions are harbingers of good or evil. Close alignments of planets happen all the time, often when the objects are close to the sun and thus low in the sky at sunrise or sunset. As far as I can tell, the world hasn't ended yet. The planets orbit the sun in near circles and along nearly the same plane, sort of like marbles rolling around on a plate.
Earth is, of course, a planet, and does the same thing.
As a result, the sun appears to move slowly against the fixed starry background from west to east along a curved path called the ecliptic. Because the other planets orbit the sun, they appear to move along the ecliptic as well but at a different speed than the sun. The farther planets, like Jupiter and Saturn, move very slowly around the sun because they have much larger paths to travel along before they orbit the sun once. They appear to move slowly along the ecliptic. Mars, which is much closer to the sun whips around the sun and therefore appears to whip along the ecliptic.