New Year's Eve as a celebration of chronos time

new years eve, as currently practiced, is among other things a celebration of chronos time and coordination via standards I watched from a hilltop as hundreds of people set off fireworks at the same moment. a collective presence experience: NOW.

QC @QiaochuYuan · Dec 31, 2023

what makes it real is that we decided it's real together. the new year is a collective spell we all cast. you are participating in a real flow of collective energy, that acquires power from how we do it every year. magic is real and it always has been. happy new year

quoting @holy_schnitt: I know that there’s no real difference between today and tomorrow but damn if i’m not a slut for the symbolism of it all! a blank page! a fresh start!! new year new me!!!!

Jan 2, 2024

⏰ chronos time is named after one of the greek time gods, and refers to linear predictible fungible clock-time 🍂 kairos time is flexible, fluid, seasonal time: mythic time, where moments are eternities and synchronicities are abundant

chronos can feel kind of stifling if you see it as controlling and constricting you but I noticed NYE that it's also possible to see it as sort of a scaffold, that you can fall out of (into mythic time) and then come back to when you want it

@_arvind has a toolkit on ritual design, which emphasizes the need to step out of clock-time, calendar-time, schedule-time... in order to create the space for transformation hard to deeply transform when "okay I've got a bit over an hour til my 2pm appt" ritualdesign.net