
I have a question, one that has perplexed me for several years.
Tomorrow is the first day of February, marking the festival of Imbolc. The days are lengthening, the night time grows shorter. We're halfway through winter. Or are we?
I know that 21st of December is supposed to be the first day of winter, but this makes absolutely no sense to me. If we look at the year as half of it where the nights are longer than the days and half of it when the days are longer than the nights, then surely, the date that the nights get shorter can't be the mid point?
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There is a divide between modern meteorology and traditional practices. The Chinese calendar and the Medieval European one had spr
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Traditionally, the cross-quarter holidays were the beginnings of the seasons. Thus, the winter solstice is "midwinter", and the su
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Hi Mark! I totally understand that this is indeed the beginning of spring, as far as the wheel of the year goes. My question is