"What time is it?" "Hey see that sun dial over there."

Did you feel it? It was hardly noticeable. It happened on Saturday, December. 22, 2007, at 1:08 A.M. Eastern Standard Time. It was the Winter solstice when we have the shortest day and the longest night (in the northern hemisphere). Depending upon the calendar shift, it can occur between December 20 and 23. The reverse happens between June 20 to 23 when the days start getting shorter.

To me, the winter solstice signals the beginning of a longer daylight cycle, the time more sunshine appears on my portion of the earth and starts to warm me up. It doesn't mean that we will instantly get warmer weather because there is something called a delay factor. February and March can still give us some nasty, cold, snowy days. But it's the beginning.

The part that interests me is how did the ancients know this? Remember Stonehenge, it was some sort of solar calculator that a primative group of people fingered out. How they determined that, I'll never know. Was it just pure dumb luck? Were they influenced by extra-terrestials? The Devel? Who knows. The point is they knew and I never could have figured that out. Maybe these are the guys that started Cambridge University.

K.