Stars

This is a mix of the wise men and light pollution.

When Jesus was born the wise men were astrologers and astronomers and knew the signs of the times. They noticed a bright star appear in the constellation of Judah and so knew a new king was going to be born, which is why the rushed off to Herod. These guys weren't being dense and saw a star over a stable in Bethlehem, like we see on the cards. No it has been proven that it was a real star in a real night sky.

In the latest National Geographical they were discussing light pollution and how there is very few places now where we can see the sky clearly enough to make out much. Also we aren't really that interested in what goes on up there. Ok so they send loads of money to check we don't get hit by asteroids and also individuals spent money on horoscopes but we don't really gaze up at the night sky too much and if we did we do it so rarely we wouldn't remember stuff.
In fact it stuck me on Friday with that huge shiny moon and the papers saying this was the brightest moon for 50 years and there would be a meteoroid storm how little interested it raised.

Jesus told us to look to the signs and in it we would be able to read when He is coming back, but how many of us take that time out to know what the signs are now and to then know when they change.
We need to get back to being more observant, stop waiting for someone else to tell us, and start looking at what is normal then we can see what is different.