The First Day
Dec. 25th, 2020 11:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smokingbootWell I have had easier days. My presents and husband have been lovely and my mum has been difficult in a way beyond her own help or mine. I need more patience. Also, the films on TV are boring me to bits.
So to indulge myself I will indulge in a little bit of Christmas seership, as in taking note of 'The Omen Days.'https://caitlin-matthews.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-omen-days-twelve-days-of-christmas.html?fbclid=IwAR1GtkP3vUH9-4fsQg5reWLFORzGefvEC7LYYEFJ4fws_flNT3r5Yay3G7k
It's a nice idea and I need cheering up. Caitlin claims that the first day of Christmas was Boxing Day, the 26th, but I have heard that the first day of Christmas is the most important, the 25th, though i seem to recall that in some customs, the Twelve Days of Christmas are counted from sunset on the 25 December to the morning of 6 January, making Twelfth Night the evening of 5 January and Twelfth Day on 6 January.
It doesn't matter. Each day one must go out and find a sign in nature which can be taken as an augury. Well, all I have found today is a tiny spider in my front room. That's a cool harking back to the legend of the Christmas spider, a chunk of folklore most prevalent in Ukraine, where so many of my studies point to in terms of ancestry. I'll take it because however nonsensical it feels for everyone else, given a day of pleasant and unpleasant nonsense, I'll put effort into column A.
I feel better already!
So to indulge myself I will indulge in a little bit of Christmas seership, as in taking note of 'The Omen Days.'https://caitlin-matthews.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-omen-days-twelve-days-of-christmas.html?fbclid=IwAR1GtkP3vUH9-4fsQg5reWLFORzGefvEC7LYYEFJ4fws_flNT3r5Yay3G7k
It's a nice idea and I need cheering up. Caitlin claims that the first day of Christmas was Boxing Day, the 26th, but I have heard that the first day of Christmas is the most important, the 25th, though i seem to recall that in some customs, the Twelve Days of Christmas are counted from sunset on the 25 December to the morning of 6 January, making Twelfth Night the evening of 5 January and Twelfth Day on 6 January.
It doesn't matter. Each day one must go out and find a sign in nature which can be taken as an augury. Well, all I have found today is a tiny spider in my front room. That's a cool harking back to the legend of the Christmas spider, a chunk of folklore most prevalent in Ukraine, where so many of my studies point to in terms of ancestry. I'll take it because however nonsensical it feels for everyone else, given a day of pleasant and unpleasant nonsense, I'll put effort into column A.
I feel better already!
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