Winter means harsh weather that requires you to bundle up under layers and layers, and the solstice will mark the first day of it — in addition to being is the day when the Northern hemisphere is at its darkest , and receives the least amount of sunlight in the year. The good news here is that once we've hit our peak shortest day of the year, we get closer and closer to the long, sunlit days of Summer.
Early sunset. Short day. Long night. So, if you're not a night owl, this could stir up confusing feelings. Like, why does it feel like I should have been sleeping for three hours already but it's not even dinner time yet? All this darkness and lack of a dawn can have the general vibes to be less than energetic as usual. Some astrologists suspect the lot of us to be feeling, "limited and constrained" but urge us to "not use this as an excuse for not doing your best. Do not put limits and burdens on others.
Guard against depression. You can accomplish quite a lot if you stay focused. Even if all the darkness has you inching towards the safe cushion of your bed's plush duvet, resist.
It's just a day and pushing through can raise your spirits. Even if you're getting hardly any daylight at all — Anchorage, Alaska will see a sun rise at am and set at pm — keep an eye on the horizon.
As Annie sang, the sun will come out tomorrow. And the day after that. And will stay for a little bit longer, if only just a minute.
Hey, on Dec. Luckily, those prophecies didn't prove true, though — so while all of this is extremely creepy, I can't help but feel a glimpse of hope that Dec. A girl can dream. But first, here's a refresher on what people thought was going to happen in December The panic, to put it simply, was over a prediction that the world was going to straight up end on Dec. The prediction was rooted in centuries of history and in an interpretation of ancient Mayan calendars: As explained by National Geographic , the ancient Mayan long-count calendar appeared to end on Dec.
This calendar started in B. Many took this to mean that the world would implode or undergo some other disastrous event, eliminating life as we know it and wiping everything we love off the Earth in one fell swoop. Another interpretation was that it would mean a sort of spiritual "rebirth" for humanity , but humans tend to like jumping to the worst possible conclusions.
If we want to get a little more specific, in the Mayan calendar system, Dec. This was further indication to some that the end of days was really coming — especially given the fact that, according to National Geographic , some Mayan scholars once cited a stone tablet found at an archaeological site in Mexico as proof that there was greater significance to the end of the 13th B'ak'tun.
While the glyphs carved into the tablet are partially damaged, some translations suggested that the Mayans believed a god would descend when this period came to a close — aka, on Dec. It was unclear what would actually happen if and when that god arrived, but the mere notion was enough to fuel the armageddon panic of five years ago. Luckily for all of us, concerns about the end of the world coming in December of proved unfounded.
As it turns out, the end of the Mayan long-count calendar simply represented the completion of one cycle and the beginning of another. Just like turning to the December page of your wall calendar indicates that it's time to get a new wall calendar, the peaceful passage of Dec. Well, now, it looks like we're having to deal with some mass hysteria about Dec. This, some say, is due to Saturn and the Sun both entering Capricorn around the same time, which means that no one should expect much good luck.
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