To learn your own rising sign and to find out the dates of your own personal year go to our astrology link, run your chart and then match the degrees on your house cusps to any ephemeris. The first celebration of the New Year. Though today many people may not even know what a plough looks like, life depends on it. Land is largely unproductive for food until it has been ploughed, made ready. To be productive life contains an element of compulsion, where rebellion and protest have no place.
Human life needs discipline if the harvest of our body and spirit is to be a good one.
At the blot we hail the men and women whose skills enable us to maintain our existence. We are also reminded of the continuity of life - a new year born. In the past it would have been ploughed back into the Earth. Today it is presented to a young person during the Blot - a reminder that the future of our folk depends upon our young people and their discipline and fruitfulness. It is not the starting but the continuing that is really important and gives success.