Is it me or are stars/planets starting to line up w/ the moon?

Has anyone else noticed this? Maybe this happens every year? Idk. I first started paying attention to the sky last year when jupiter inched in by the moon. Now it looks like other bright stars are in the sky, and some of them are in line with the moon.

Also now there are multiple flashing stars. Mostly everyone believed the most prominent flashing star to be Sirius. I somewhat did a further study on this and It may be Ashtaroth which is equivalent to Goddess Ishtar. Don't know if theres a connection to this but at the recent superbowl halftime show, as most of us know, Madonna put on a strange but highly symbolic performance. And apparently she changed her name to Esther which is equivalent to Ishtar. I know this is a far stretch but is there a connection here? Or does anyone else notice that there are more big bright stars in the sky at night?