Thus it passes all the planets every month. This October, one can utilize the Moon to readily find four of the planets. The action happens after the first two weeks of the month. Sunday night, October 15, by 9 PM, the bright waxing gibbous Moon is rising low in the east northeast with Saturn to its left. On Tuesday morning, October 24, after 5AM look for the thin, waning crescent Moon rising in the east with Mars, just to the right.
Shorter days means longer nights and observing without staying up as late.
Undertake these challenges and you will have an opportunity to find a number of the planets and you will dramatically demonstrate for yourself the changing position of the Moon against the starry background, something our ancestors knew well.