Winter Solstice Festivity

Unlike adults detesting traffic lights, tiny👧🏻kids👦🏻enjoy playing the game of “🚦statue” or “🚥freeze,” of coz without🚨amber to test quicker responses❕ Well, planetary🪐bodies in elliptical🔁orbits🔂do so too & our Mother🌍🌎🌏Earth revolving around the☀️Sun🌞isn’t an exception… just that they’re slower & far more predictable than🧒kids… Gen gap you see… oops 🙊 U C‼️ And the keyword isn’t “freeze/statue,” but “solstice” for instantaneously pausing this times-immemorial marathon❗️

Tomorrow’s⛄️winter❄️solstice literally🥶freezes☃️the☀️Sun🌥️in🔠Latin🔡into an apparent standstill: maxima location from any Earth🌏fixed reference🖼️frame, as per physics & thus mathematically setting the first time derivative of the expression for the periodically-varying distance between the earth & the sun to 0️⃣ & ensuring the second time derivative is🎞️negative⚠️ That’s just high school calculus.

But being mārgaśira lakṣmī vratā, this Thursday’s⛄️winter❄️solstice ironically auto-starts (rather than out-datedly jumpstart/kickstart/crank-start/push-start) the🆙coming😻lovely😍weekend🥰, extending into another major🥳week of🎊festivity🎉, including

1. Friday’s👼🏼mōkṣa-da🗽ékā-daśi🌖predominantly in mōkṣa-kārakā⚕️kētu’s🎠aśvini🗺️nakṣa-trā🛡️from 9:38🕤am to 7:56🕗am next day, my 42-hr fortnightly🍽️fast being from Thu🕕6pm to Sat🕛12 Noon;
2. Saturday’s🎵gītā🗣️jay-anti🐴belonging to our own principle of magnetic🧲attraction [kr̥ṣṇam̐], as the🌌universal䷣gloom-remover [jagad-gurum̐], to which our body-mind-intellect (BMI)🙇🏻‍♀️toolkit🧰 (represented by🏹arjunā+🏎️chariot+🐎horses) surrenders [vandé];
3. Sunday’s🦧hanumā👃jay-anti+🌞ravi🕳️pra-dōṣā+✡️krittikā🌌nakṣatrā*️⃣, celebrating the nurturing nature of our vital life breath (oVLB) towards the other facets of who we think we’re… no wonder then that you can spot👃🏼oVLB🦍hanumā🦧atop arjunā's🏎️chariot;
4. Monday’s🎄☦️yésu-jay-anti✝️🌲, also known as 5️⃣pañca-gaṇa-pati🐘, thanks🙏to🚪sat-guru🕳️śivā-ya🦚su-brahman-iya-svāmi𐃆of the🧜🏿‍♀️Kauai🧜‍♂️ādhīnam̐🔱in the🇺🇸Hawaiian🌺islands, who initiated this annual 5️⃣–day event 38 years ago; &
5. Tuesday’s🔴ultimate🌋celebration of our inherent ability to🎁exchange💝oVLB uninhibitedly & unlimitedly with our entire ecosystem: 🦮🐩🐕‍🦺🐕🐶🖖śrī💸datta-ātréya🥉jay-anti🎐on the occasion🎑of🛣️mārga-śira🌝hunnimé@pūrnimā🌕in mithunā@♊️Gemini, which VasanthiMā celebrates in the best way she knows: singing bhajans & ślōkās, transporting herself & us too to bliss & ecstasy: Click here!