Welcome to 2026.

May this calendar cycle bear healthy fruit, meaningfully transform, and prepare you for the needed resiliency of the coming times.

A calendar number has changed. We collectively have agreed (or succumbed) to this, even though the calendar is indeed a false one. Our natural rituals have been thwarted, but we still want to celebrate and have meaning, so we do it anyway. Kings, dictators, and priests have sent us off in random directions. We have been lost in the dark, feeling around to find our way home. We dance between truth and fairytale, but we each carry a flame that lights our varied paths.

Originally, the Roman calendar had only ten months, beginning with March and ending with December. The month January is named after the Latin word for door, ianua (ianuarius), because January is the door to the rest of the year in this style of time keeping.

It later became linked to the Roman god Janus, a two-faced god, one looking back and the other forward: the god of doorways, gates, and thresholds; and, by extension, of beginnings, endings, and transitions. When people celebrate this time, it is a remnant of the Janus Festival, which occurred on Jan 1st. We can choose at this time to rejoice, to sit in reflection, but also to plan our forward motion. As you wish.

January symbolizes a calendar doorway; however, spring and Aries mark a astrological and agricultural new beginning. These are two different systems of timekeeping. We can choose to acknowledge and celebrate them all or select what is best for us.

However you reflect or rejoice, let myself and all of us at YumNaturals, dmso.store, and yummy.doctor send you well wishes, love, joy, abundance, calm preparedness, and smooth transformation.

Wishing you steadiness,

💚 ADV