May Life and Peace be upon all beings.
Today is the First Day of the solar year, in the Northern Hemisphere.
Yesterday the night was the longest, and today the day is the shortest of the year. The sun has reached the Base of its annual course in the sky; thus, we call it the Day of the Base of the Sun, commonly known as the winter solstice.
From today onwards, the sun ascends in its path across the sky, the day lengthens and the night shortens. In the Southern Hemisphere, it is the opposite.
Thus, Day triumphs over Night, Light triumphs over Darkness, symbolizing Illumination prevailing over the Shadows.
This day symbolizes the End of a temporal cycle and the Beginning of a new cycle, a renewal.
After the descent and reaching the deepest bottom in the Darkness, follows the ascent into the Light.
Symbolically, after the death of the Illusory Me, follows the resurrection or the rebirth of the Awakened Me in the Light of the True Self.
The Beginning of the new annual cycle is conception, which is the beginning of the gestation of life, hidden in its matrix that is the earth and in the womb of seeds, during the cold season, winter.
This is why many cultures around the world, which take the sky and the sun as a referential, establish this day as the first day of the solar year. Other cultures celebrate this day for its symbolic significance.
Among the Hebrews, it is Hanukkah, whose cosmic luminous symbolism predates the historical event of the Maccabees’ victory over the Seleucids in 164 BCE and the miracle of the cruse of oil allowing the re-dedication of the altar of offerings in the Second Temple.
Among the Romans, it was the festival of the Unconquered Sun (Sol Invictus), established by Emperor Aurelian on 25 December 274.
Among the Christians within the Roman Empire which converted in 313 CE, by 336 CE, the birth of Jesus Christ symbolising the Light of the World, its date was associated with that of Sol Invictus as Natalis Domini, which would become Christmas, to facilitate the integration of the Romans into Christianity.
January first was originally fixed by Julius Caesar, in 46 BCE, after the period of festivities linked to the winter solstice, 10 days after the solstice, as the day for resuming political activities, thus marking the beginning of the civil year, and creating the Julian calendar. It was only much later, in 1582, that the Julian calendar was reformed into the Gregorian calendar, which is in use today in European civilisation and many countries around the world and internationally.
The start of the civil year in the Julian and then Gregorian calendars is therefore delayed by 10 days compared to the beginning of the natural solar year.
It is Dongzhi among the Chinese, Yalda among the Zoroastrian Iranians, Yule among the Germanic peoples.
Makara Sankranti among the Indians is a later equivalent, occurring more than three weeks afterwards.
The astronomical event corresponds to the lowest inclination of the sun’s apparent position relative to the celestial equator, 23° 26’ 13’’ towards the south. Today, it occurred precisely at 15:03:01 UTC, corresponding to 16:03:01 Central European Time (CET = UTC+1 time zone, including notably Belgium and France).
Winter will last 89 days this year.
May this Day of the Base of the Sun bring to you all Life and Health, Light and Enlightenment!
Author: Iskander ElFihri ElFassi, First Leader of the One All World Organisation
Published: Sunday 21 December 2025
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