Welcome to ! Rest is more important than ringing in the New Year. Every year has its own character. When it comes to the turn of the New Year, we bunnies wonder if our new broom will sweep clean or if the old broom will leave the same mess as always in our cozy rabbit dens. Are we filled with hope or with foreboding? Do these dark days and deep nights of winter fill us with a gloomy spirit?
Or do the imperceptibly lengthening minutes of daytime give hope to the shadows the cold of winter has left in the depths of our souls? Or have the coastal grandmother bunnies among us learned to ignore all this stum and drang by blending their afternoon tea time into early evening wine tasting? Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde is a famous light and dark shadow character from fiction, but too often in real life we rabbits point out our own dark shadows in the lives of those we so easily demonize.
We bunnies all have a wayward youth, for how else would we know what the immature among us are getting into? One face, which looked backwards, was lined, bearded, and craggy featured, while the forward looking face of the new year was youthful, smooth, and clean shaven.
Most of us bunnies also have short memories, for we tend to repeat the same mistakes over and over. Rabbits have short term memories of around 4 minutes, but can remember bad experiences for longer periods, just as humans can. If peace were impounded, peace would be guaranteed to the nation. Just as Janus had two faces, Roman religion was open to multiple interpretations and meanings. Maybe in we bunnies might want to look at different ways of thinking, instead of one fixed way.
On the path we can still see other twists and turns, which might change the outcome of our experience and existence. If the world is changing more quickly than is comfortable for us, I give the example of my old granddaddy again. He pushed a button to turn on one of the first electric lights in his home town and lived to see men walk on the moon. Be resilient, be adaptable, and embrace change. Romans would celebrate January 1 by giving offerings to Janus in the hope of gaining good fortune for the new year.
