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yonder

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15. Agree. Cross-quarter days are what we should be using to mark the seasons.

Wed Dec 21, 2022, 06:57 PM

Dec 2022

Roughly, sometime in the first week of February, May, August and November (end of summer/Samhradh and Samhain/Halloween), they describe the seasons much more usefully than the mathematical representations of planetary motions we use today.

I try to keep Cross-quarter days in mind when thinking of the seasons and Solstice/Equinox when thinking of a big ball of rock moving about a bigger ball of gas.

https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/halloween-derived-from-ancient-celtic-cross-quarter-day/

Edit: post #12 nails it

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