Chinese New Year Means Good Tidings for all New Resolutioners Catching up to '08

All this information IS going somewhere after all! Wondering why I wrote such a detailed and thorough article on Solstices and Equinoxes? Well -- in addition to my car being an Equinox, having written a screenplay called "The Solstice" about a ship, and my love for nautical science and understanding how our celestial place in the universe creates Natural calendar and seasonal occurrences -- the Chinese New Year is BASED ON Solstices and Equinoxes! So you'll need to read that article I wrote to get the most out of this.

For all those people who've slacked a bit on New Years resolutions, do not fret! On the Chinese Calendar, you still have a almost a month until New Years! New Years, you see, falls on the day after the 2nd new man after the winter solstice. Remember, the winter solstice is when our planet Earth is tilted furthest away from the sun in its elliptical orbit around our Sun star. In 2007 that winter solstice occurred occurred on Dec. 22. Yep, (by definition of a winter solstice) the shortest day and the longest night of 2007 was Dec. 22. Then just whip out your trusty lunar calendar (I know all you have one of those! haha. And if you're a nautical-celestial navigation freak like me, or some astrologer/astronomer, you probably already do have a lunar calendar) and you'll see that the 2nd lunar (after Jan. 8) new moon is February 6, 2008. So February 7th, Chinese New Years, here we come!!