Tristan Gooley

And so we're tuned into that.

Yeah, and that's part of what my work is all about, is taking these things that our ancestors were really tuned into because they had a much rawer experience.

You know, winter, even 2,000 years ago, was not an easy time.

And so they were tuned into the patterns they could see in the sun because it gave them reassuring cues that things were following the cycle.

So if we take the word solstice, it comes from the Latin words meaning sun standing still.

And that's because if you look at the eastern or western horizon, as you get into midwinter, the sun is rising further south and setting further south every day.

But as we reach late December and the solstice, it appears that journey appears to stop.

And that, for the ancients, our ancestors, was a wonderful time because they're going, wow, wow, if the sun just stops moving south, at some point it'll start coming north again.

But for a couple of weeks in late December, it's very, very hard to see any movement in the direction of sunrise or sunset, hence the word solstice.

But the opposite of that is the equinoxes, late March, late September.

The direction the sun is rising and setting is changing at its fastest possible rate.

And that is just the other side of the coin, that the day is getting longer or shorter at a rapid, dramatic rate.

Do you think most people know that?

I know they don't.

And I know that because I've been out speaking and I've given enough talks now where I can see the things where people sort of eyes kind of, you know, they get wider and that is one of them.

And I think it makes sense to people.

But I think it's one of the many things that we've we've lost.

So lots of things we can do in the modern lifestyle that our ancestors couldn't.

But we have lost a few things along the way.

And that's definitely one of them.