Sunday, December 21, 1997
A merry Solstice Day
Looking for a way to make your holidays more efficient? Try
celebrating Christmas and New Year's on the same day -- today.
There's solid precedent. Today is the Winter Solstice, the
shortest day and longest night of the year, when the pagans celebrated
the new year and, until the Gregorian calendar replaced the Julian,
the Christians celebrated Christmas.
The Solstice is not some arbitrary, made-up event like New
Year's. Stuff really happens. In the Northern Hemisphere, the
Solstice is the official start of the solar winter, and the days
start getting longer.
For party-planning purposes, the exact moment of the solstice
is 2:07 pm CST when the sun, to be Earthocentric about it, begins
heading north.
The Solstice also means something else: only 88 shopping days
until the Vernal Equinox.
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