A New Year and Insightful Beginnings (Tap here to read the entire post)

If someone asked you why the New Year starts on Jan 1, what would you say? It’s a good question, for in the Northern Hemisphere, at least, the December equinox date would make more sense, as it is then that the longest day of the year has just concluded, and the light starts to increase day by day.

However, the answer to the question is this: The tradition began during the time of Roman domination. Emperor Julius Caesar decreed the beginning of the new year on that date to accommodate a calendar he was involved with creating, one that came to be known as the Julian Calendar. In time, a refined calendar was introduced, the Gregorian Calendar, and the orchestrated tradition was transferred to it as well. As the Romans conquered other peoples, their calendar followed them and proliferated the January 1 idea.

For some cultures today, the date proves to be just an accommodating nod, as they consider other dates to be more harmonious with their traditions. But interestingly, the reason that January 1 is ingrained as the beginning of a new year, even today, is because powerful imposition has anchored this as a globally recognized marker on human consciousness.

We know, of course, that new beginnings in thought, commitment, or action can be implemented whenever they arrive, making every day potentially the day of new beginnings.

Aprinia honors this ideal, inviting all to embrace principles as a way of life whenever it is that they visit our powers of understanding. At least in our hearts and minds, influential outward dominations can readily be supplanted by the transformative power of principle, giving us instant freedom beyond inherited constraints, if needed or desired.