“From Orion we could reverse the line to find the Big Dipper, if we couldn’t find it initially, by cutting diagonally from that star closest to the horizon, Rigel, through Betelgeuse, back to Castor, and onward. Those three smaller stars – Orion’s Belt – can draw a line above the horizon through Aldebaran to that dense formation there, the Pleiades. But we’re more interested in following it the other way. That brings us to Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky. Now if we drew a line through the top two stars of Orion’s boxy body in the same direction, we’d get to Procyon. Those two with Betelgeuse make the winter triangle, which is like the spring triangle, but for, well, winter. The fact we can see both means it’s late winter or early spring. In this dream, at least. As long as the stars stay the way they are. We were looking at a summer sky when we first started talking, at the beginning of the dream.”