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New Years…
Quick question: Did "New Year, New You" feel forced this January?
There's a reason for that dissonance, and it's not you.
January 1st asks the northern region to transform when nature is teaching dormancy. It asks the southern hemisphere to "begin fresh" in the peak of summer, when the year already feels underway.
Same date. Opposite meanings. Global pressure to pretend it's the same for everyone.
Here's what most people don't know:
January 1st has only been the "universal" new year for a few decades. England didn't adopt it until 1752. Russia waited until 1700. Numerous countries didn’t join in until the early 1900’s
Before the Gregorian calendar standardized things in 1582, cultures timed their new years to what they could observe:
🌱 Spring equinoxes
🌗 Lunar cycles
🌾 Harvest completions
🍁 Local seasonal markers
Time was witnessed, not decreed.
The word "calendar" literally comes from calendae: the Roman day when debts were due. We've let an accounting system tell us when to transform.
But here's the shift:
You can honor January 1st as the civic new year (coordination, shared social time) while also recognizing:
- Your regional new year (aligned with your actual spring)
- Your personal new year (life transitions, readiness)
- Your creative or spiritual new years
Multiple beginnings aren't contradictory, they're more truthful.
Life moves in overlapping cycles, not single resets.
If January felt misaligned with your actual experience, you're not broken. You're perceiving the gap between administrative time and embodied time.
The new year doesn't begin when calendars say, it begins when you're ready, and when the earth where you stand agrees.
I wrote a full deep-dive on this (the history, the hemispheric problem, how to develop "calendrical fluency" between shared time and lived time).
Read the full article here: When Calendars Collide with Consciousness
I’m curious: Does January 1st feel right for you this year, or were you already operating on a different timeline without realizing it?
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