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Makar Sankranti

Magha, around 14–15 January · Surya

The sun's turn northward into Capricorn, the great harvest and solar festival kept across India under many names.

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  • The Turning Toward Light Treatise

    This is Makar Sankranti , the festival of the turning, and with it the year comes down out of the long autumn dark and begins, at last, to climb back toward the light.