A Crystalline New Year: Reconnecting All through Our Transparent Vibrations

Dec 31, 2018

The New Year holiday celebrates the beginning of a new cycle. It’s a time to symbolically start afresh. What time could be better to let go what no longer serves us; to resonate with our transparent crystalline selves; and to remain open, in an “expanding mode,” to integrate others’ transparent perspectives.

 

How many times along your path have you thought you owned the truth? Have you questioned this truth? Have you considered whether truth (singular) is something that can be known—whether one single truth really exists? What does something require in order to be true?

 

Remember that the mind tends to automatically repeat what it “knows” (what has been recorded in the unconscious). As long as we don’t question this knowledge, it guides us and our interactions with others and the world around us (often in the form of patterns implanted by others). So, what is the truth?

 

Let’s take New Years. It’s striking how different cultures and philosophies around the world have different points of view about this one theme. Let’s explore for a moment these different points of view without needing to call one of them “absolute truth.” We all have the right to recognize our own point of view independently of our culture, religion, country, gender, profession, social group, or family history.

 

The date on which the New Year holiday is celebrated depends on the type of calendar in use. The most common is January 1, from the Gregorian calendar, which was introduced by Pope Gregorio XIII in 1582 and is used in many countries around the world.

 

Traditionally, the Roman calendar began on the first day of March. Since in the month of January, the consuls of ancient Rome assumed the government, Julius Caesar, in 47 BC, modified the calendar so the beginning of the year would coincide with the change of political administration and created the Julian calendar. With some modifications, it was used during the consul of Mark Antony in 44 BC, the reign of Emperor Augustus Caesar in 8 BC, and finally by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582. In this calendar, which is used today, the year begins on January 1. Subsequently, the Gregorian calendar maintained the custom and celebration that was marked with a religious significance during the Middle Ages and the centuries that followed. With the expansion of Western culture to the rest of the world during the twentieth century, January 1 became a universal date, incorporated into religions’ and countries’ different celebration of New Years.

 

The Gregorian calendar is solar. Its days indicate the position of the earth in its revolution around the sun. Solar calendars have 365 days and typically include an extra day during a “leap year.”

 

Just as there are solar calendars, there are lunar calendars, as well as lunisolar calendars. Lunar calendars calculate the years according to the cycles of the moon (rather than those of the sun, as in Western calendars). Each lunation corresponds to a “lunar month”—a period between two times when the moon is in exactly the same phase (be it waxing or waning). Each lunar month corresponds to 29.53 solar days. The beginning of the lunar month is an arbitrary point that varies according to culture. For example, the Chinese calendar considers the new moon (the first day the moon is not seen in the sky) the beginning of the month, while in other lunar and lunisolar calendars, the first day of the month is the first crescent moon.

 

Traditionally and to this day, most cultures have had lunisolar calendars. Such calendars consider the cycles of both the moon and the sun, which determine the seasons. As there are usually twelve lunar months for each solar year, the repetition of twelve moons is called the lunar year. And, as the lunar years don’t coincide with the solar years, every so often, there is a solar year with thirteen moons. In lunisolar calendars, months are lunar but years are solar. In order to bring the lunar year (354 days) into alignment with the solar year (365 days), inserting a month is necessary.

 

The Jewish calendar, the Chinese calendar, and the Hindu calendar are lunisolar. In Western Christian culture, although the calendar is solar for most practical purposes, certain dates, such as Easter, are fixed according to the lunisolar calendar. The Incan and Muslim calendars are lunar.

 

In Christianity, the Catholic Church celebrates the New Year on January 1 as per the Gregorian calendar, the Vetero-Catholic Church celebrates on February 4 according to the Gali-Catholic calendar, and some orthodox sects celebrate on January 14.

 

In addition to the different calendars, some philosophies, such as Jewish, Muslim, and Celtic traditions, have enriched the new year with their beliefs and rituals. The Jewish New Year, or Rosh Hashana, is celebrated during the Hebrew month of Tishrei, between September and October, because, according to the Old Testament, this was the month in which God created the world; it’s from this supposition that the years are counted. The months are counted as part of the Hebrew month of Nisan, which falls during March and April.

 

The Muslim New Year, or Sanah al-Hijriyah, is celebrated in the first month of the Islamic calendar, Muharram, commemorating the beginning of the Muslim era when the prophet Muhammad migrated from the city of Mecca to Medina. Interestingly, the act itself didn’t actually occur in the first month but rather in the third. However, it was officially set as the first by Caliph Omar Ibn al-Khattab.

 

The Chinese New Year, or Chuxi, falls on the day of the new moon halfway between the winter solstice and the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere, between February 3 and 5 and marks the beginning of spring.

 

Samhain is the most important Celtic festival of the pagan period that dominated Europe until its conversion to Christianity. During Samhain, the end of the harvest season was celebrated the night of October 31 to November 1. This was considered the “Celtic New Year,” which began with the dark season. It was a celebration of both transition (the passage from one year to another) and an opening to the other world.

 

If we continue investigating New Years, Enkutatash is the Ethiopian new year; Losar is the Tibetan new year, celebrated between January and February; and Diwali, the Hindu new year, is celebrated between the months of October and January. These are just a few of the different manifestations of new year celebrations around the world.

 

As you see, not only one truth exists. Rather, there exist in harmony many different points of view.

 

During my spiritual journeys, this was one of the many stories I heard about masters and disciples. A master gathered all his disciples to face the dawn. As the sun rose above the horizon, he asked each one to describe what he perceived. One responded, “Light.” Another said, “A golden sphere.” Still another described the different hues of the sky. Another spoke of the shadows produced, and another related the power and grandeur. Another simply said it was God.

 

The master concluded, “None of your answers is an absolute truth. All truths are different views from different points of view.”

 

What a transformation it would be if we could all uncover our ability to resonate with our own crystalline truth—without being compelled to believe it is the only truth that exists. How would it change our world if we could honor our transparent truths and those of others? Ask yourself, Am I open to finding my own transparent truth? Am I willing to explore and, if needs be, let go of the automatically repeated beliefs that have been passed down to me? Am I also open to the beliefs and perspectives of others—to those around me resonating with their own truths? 

Happy Crystalline New Year!!

 

Please do not forget to share your comments, if you feel a call to do so.

 

Crystal blessings 

Beatriz

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