December 21sts (Solstices)
What better calendar “antipode” than a Solstice?
12/21/2003
Very warm winter. Today is the first day of winter and still no snow and it’s almost 40 degrees.
12/21/2009
Winter Solstice 11:47AM
12/21/2010
For the first time in 372 years, Monday into Tuesday’s lunar eclipse coincided with the start of the winter solstice. I love synchronicities like this.
Interesting that the Lascaux caves were designed such that the cave openings would direct a sunbeam into the cave at the solstices.
12/21/2020
The Jupiter-Saturn great conjunction simultaneous with the winter solstice is another example of the “touching”—the universe is telling us something with this particular display. But the “something” is just another “anything”: the ascription of meaning is both personal and collective.
12/21/2021
Sunny solstice morning, 9:58. A day of 1s and 2s (122121).
A six-word poem (Alliterative Haiku):
repeating ritual
stonehenge solstice
tilt terminus
Interesting: Apparently when the winter solstice arrives, tuna fish go into a kind of hibernation until the equinox. I read this in a book on Michel de Montaigne, so who knows how true it is. Did he know that?
Reading The Dawn of Everything, a posthumous tome by David Graeber. Interesting section on Monk’s Mound at Cahokia. They had a woodhenge. They are so elegant, anyone can make one.
Two simultaneous scenes at the Winter Solstice take place at the 32nd parallel, north and south, Marfa Texas and at Chapman’s Peak, Cape Town, South Africa:
Katherine Street, Marfa, Texas:
Chapman’s Peak:
12/21/2023
Winter Solstice at 9:27 PM
Another short video (draft) based one of my 90s songs, Time Capsule. I’m using text-to-speech voices and shifting the syllables to where the original vocal was. (The voices are “Amy” and “Geraint” a Welsh voice).