Yes.
That's what it's for.
Really, I want to find a way to sense my movement relative to the sky.
One spring I walked every night up a local hill just after sunset. I was lucky to have a stretch of clear weather. Each night the stars sank lower into the Sun. (This was NOT on Long Island). After a month the sky had sunk one entire zodiac sign. The constellation of Gemini has a couple of bright stars (also, Procyon in Canis Minor is nearby) and their movement from roughly overhead down toward the Sun was very obvious. After a while I could begin to feel it.
Dope helps ;) The Fates are kind.
But the thing is, I realised as the moon went down...see, I'd be wondering how we could ever see Venus, as it's closer to the Sun than us, to look at it we have to look towards the sun. But then I realised that we must be looking acrossVenus, that it is moving away because I am spinning away from it. And I realised I was looking in the rear-view mirror, that the moon and Venus were moving away into the distance. I want to see the stars I'm moving towards, I'll have to check it out. My "east" looks out over the town, so there'll be a lorra light down below bleeding out a lot of stars above. I'll have to go see.
And the puzzle. I need more clues or pointing back towards the right track. Venus and the moon. I saw them this evening, a very elegant relationship, relative to my window. I thought of Islam and the crescent moon with its single star.
So, the moon. It's cycles. Then there are lunar eclipses, used to reset time systems. And there is Venus...and there was Mars in B. So Mars, too. Something about their conjunction and how it relates to lunar eclipses? ?????? I still can't get my head around the ecliptic. Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
