Today is a special day due to a celestial activity, the significance being that the day equals night! It's also called the 'Autumnal Equinox'.
And why is it so? The elliptical path that the earth traverses to go around the sun once( the duration as we all know is 365 days or a calendar year) is called the 'ecliptic'. And the ecliptic crosses the equator at two diametrically opposite points which are named as the 'First point of Aries' and the 'First point of Libra'.
On 23rd Sep, every year, the earth is at the First point of Libra. And this point of time denotes the beginning of the 'Winter Solstice'. The sun is now on its way into the southern hemisphere.
And it is time to get my woollens ready, over the next couple of months, to be in time to face the winters!!
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