Carol Ciocco – Did you know that at Midnight on New Year’s Eve, we are directly ‘downstream’ from the brightest star in our skies, the star Sirius?

Yes, deeply embedded in our cultural celebrations of New Year’s Eve for the past 70 years lies a hidden celestial synchronicity. It turns out that the star is intimately linked with our tradition of ‘ringing out the old and ringing in the new’ with jubilant celebrations at exactly midnight on New Year’s Eve.
One could say that we are showered with the blessings of a brilliant shining star at that magical moment – and somehow we seem to sense this, jumping up and down with glee!
Immortality
Because Sirius is the brightest star in our sky, in antiquity it was known as ‘The Shining One’ or ‘The Scorcher.’ The ancient Egyptians called Sirius ‘Isis’ (Sothis) and built their calendar around the heliacal (with the sun) rising and setting of this magnificent star (this occurs in July).
The Egyptians believed that Sirius had a tremendous effect upon life on our planet. In particular, they felt that the star could bring immortality to humans and oriented the pyramid at Giza to the Sirius light. Some historians attribute the Giza pyramid alignment to the Pharaoh’s desire to gain immortality after death by traveling to Sirius in his ‘light body’ or Ka. Continue reading
James Gilliland – I am presently in Australia so I already experienced New Year’s Eve by the time you read this letter. It’s funny. I can procrastinate and still be on time, which is pretty much my nature.
Disseminating Moon in Virgo/Libra (Friday, January 1 @ 1:42 am ET/6:42 am UT): share, communicate
Dane Wigington – The final week of 2015 may bring temperatures to the North Pole as much as 75 degrees above normal (complete report on this is below). At the same time