Long before we had “Christmas” or chose this time to be “New Year” our ancestors, the northern European ones at any rate, marked the Solstice as a time of rebirth and time when the forces of light and dark were in balance, and thus easy to tip one way or the other.

It’s the darkest time of the year, with the last of the previous season’s fresh food eaten and a long winter yet to come … a lot of people, including yourself, might not live to see spring. And at the same time, after the solstice, the Sun begins to come back. There *will* be a another summer, another time to have children, to sow crops to languish in the summer sunshine.

After 10,000 years of that it is bred into our bones.

And besides, there is nothing on TV over the holidays! 😉