Venus, Mars, and Saturn gathered in the evening sky during May and June.  Mars is racing eastward through Gemini trying to stay ahead of the Sun, Saturn is moving at its usual slow eastward pace and so is rapidly sinking toward solar conjunction, and Venus has just begun retrograding toward the first of its pair of transits.  Saturn shines at magnitude -0.31, Mars at +1.73, and Venus at -4.32 (50.93" across).