The issues of excess and overpopulation combine seamlessly in so many of the winter solstice observances that it’s as though a faithful retaliation to the cold season’s imposing scarcity must occur to ensure the return of warmth and natural bounty.

You can watch zeitgeistmovie.com to set a purposeful view on the reason for the season because you may see the astrological significance is confounding and enduring beyond rises and failings of societies, each with their unique mythologies.

Needlessly, there is a girft-mas redistribution of unsustainable and quickly outdated “resource to waste” junk products just barely built to last through Easter…a.k.a Spring Equinox celebration. This year we can realign ourselves, planet and cosmos by renouncing the habit of religious fervor gone venture capitalist.

Principally, gift giving is in no way harmful, yet junk building, wrapping and breaking has planetary disrespect embossed in the thick skin of the tradition.

We may decide to engage in care-full gifts like some of these ideas; healthy preparations for consumption, support sources of renewable materials directly in acquiring supplies to make gifts that are not impersonally boxed on a robotic production line (like most of the lucky kids got last year).

One last small note, people do not always open considerations of a New Year Resolution for broad public discussion and what is more sad than a germinated ex-alcoholic intender being handed a bottle of Chardonnay?