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Celestial Synchronization

I've recently come to the conclusion that the reason why human beings view events from such a peculiar perspective is because the Earth is tilted. Yes, because we are incrementally out of phase with the rest of the Galaxy, this surely must explain why we behave in such an abundantly curious manner from time to time. 

After all, what other species has created a wonderfully diverse panoply of ingeniously imaginative inventions from something as mundane as the movement of the planets around their solar system? 

For instance, in certain Earth cultures the solar year is marked by the position of the Sun, as viewed from a terrestrial perspective, at four "fixed" points in the annual cycle called the Quarter Days. In the Northern Hemisphere these points are the Winter Solstice (longest night), Spring Equinox (equal night and day), Summer Solstice (longest day), and Autumnal Equinox (back to equal day and night).  

The Celts further divided the year into eight festivals by inserting four additional Cross Quarter Days on November 1st (Samhain), February 1st (Imbolc), May 1st (Beltane), and August 1st (Lughnasadh), to celebrate the equidistant points between the Solstices and the Equinoxes as the Sun "moves" through the heavens. 

So, the day which traditionally fell midway between the Autumn Equinox and the Winter Solstice, was November 1st and, as the Earth slid further into its cyclical seasonal darkness, the eve of October 31st became superstitiously regarded as the night the lord of death was said to judge the souls of the departed... a belief system which has inspired a multitude of Hollywood movies of varying degrees of creative merit. 

Originally a Celtic festival called Samhain, meaning Summer's End, the tradition of November 1st was later Christianized as a tribute to All Saints’ (or All Hallows’) Day, hence Hallowe'en, the evening before. 

Which brings us elegantly to the launch of the new Mania website...  

Symbolically, Hallowe'en or Samhain marks the end of the old and the beginning of the new, making this ancient festival the perfect psychological point in time to embark on our new venture. 

Ah, but there's a catch. We failed to take into account the angle of the tilt of the Earth, currently positioned at 23.5 Degrees.  

This is important because the precise angle of the tilt of the Earth affects the cycle of the seasons, which are caused by the movement of the Earth around the Sun as our Big Blue Marble spins through space-time. And this canted “procession”, in turn, gently affects the timing of the Solstices and the Equinoxes in increments through the centuries.  

So, although Hallowe'en occurred on October 31^st back in ancient times, the effect of "procession" has shifted the exact equidistant point of the Sun between the Autumn Equinox and the Winter Solstice forwards, to occur on November 7th this year. 

Therefore it was inevitable that the Mania computers would experience a complete digital meltdown as we spiraled wildly out of synch with the universal galactic tractor beam when we failed to provide for the advancing obliquity of the planet. Try explaining that to the website techies… 

To mitigate this dilemma, the 23.5 Degree Team has been brought in to re-synchronize the Mania coordinates every Saturday. During our weekly exercises we will be examining the truth behind the façade, as well as off-beam material that can’t be found anywhere else.