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April Fools? Maybe not
I found out recently that the reason we call it “April Fool’s Day” is not quite as funny and whimsical as we all thought.
April 1st used to be the first day of the new year in the old lunar calendar, which was in use from the time of the ancient Assyrians all the way up until the sixteenth century. That's many thousands of years of human tradition across cultures and in different parts of the world.
The demarcation in the calendar had to do with the Spring Equinox, which I talked about in another video here. That’s the time when the day and night are equal in length, and there is a great big full moon.
They had different names for the months too back then, but then Pope Gregory the 13th decided to change the calendar to the one we all use now, called the Gregorian Calendar, maybe you’ve heard that name before.
There’s all sorts of weird occult stuff tied into the names of the months too, which have to do with ancient Roman gods & myths, but I won’t get into it. If any of you are into that stuff, let me know what you find out.
The main point though is that people were called “April Fools” if they still celebrated the lunar new year, because people thought if they had not gotten word about the new calendar, so they must be foolish.
But I think there is something to celebrate in the Spring time, and I definitely pay attention to the moon more than I used to. Spring is a time of change, growth, optimism, and planting seeds.
To that end, I went through a journaling exercise with some buddies to set our Spring intentions for the year after a 4 day long fast (that was a challenge, but I felt great after).
So call me an April Fool, but I’m celebrating this month, and I hope you have the same sense of enthusiasm that I have.
What are your intentions for the year? What has changed since Jan 1st? And if the answer is “not much”, what is likely to change now that we have the energy of Spring driving us?
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