And soon for all the Southern Hemisphere!
And so it be also for the Northern Hemisphere!
Yesterday the Bolivian government decreted Winter Solstice as National Holiday , which personally I consider a great turn: A whole SHIFT in SHIFTING TIMES!
Here just nine reasons to celebrate Winter Solstice as holiday:
1. It takes us back to our natural cycles, after applying for a very long time in the Southern Hemisphere the solar calendar for the Northern Hemisphere
2. Visibilizes our hemisphere… like Mario Benedetti would say: The South exists too!
3. We look once again to our North, which is the South
4. Synchronises daily life to solar moment: Rebirth
6. Reproduces as cultural manifestation the cosmic order following natural laws
7. One more step to be Nature again
8. Vindicates the scientific ancestry of the people (pueblos), stripping them from degrading interpretations like ‘Sun worship’
9. Recognizes the diversity of the people (pueblos) an ‘after’ of the silencing global homogeneity… redrawing history and ratifying that another world is possible being ourselves and driving the western world to know other avoided histories through which life is always flowing.
And certainly there will be many other reasons that I invite you to share on comments.
Meanwhile, to the South: Happy New Year looking to the South!