New Year! Our renovated hope in the future. But is it real?

New Year’s eve in South American countries can be quite exhausting. One must make sure to spend new year’s transition wearing new clothes. Depending on the color, this is how your year will be. White means peace, red is for passion, pink for love, yellow is for money. Very important is the underwear. Yellow definitely will guarantee a new year full of money, according to ‘specialists’. If you decide to watch the fireworks at the beach, make sure you jump seven waves. ‘For good luck’. Also, eat 12 grapes for prosperity, one for each month.

The food is an important aspect. Lentils are mandatory, but as for the meat, one should never eat birds, for they go backwards when they eat. Cow, pork and fish are ok, since these animals only move forward. In some other south American countries, it is also important to transition years with a suitcase in your hands, to make sure you will have a next year full of travels.

Germany is not exactly a ‘superstitious’ culture, but they have ‘traditions’. So a NYE tradition is to watch ‘Dinner for one’, which is a black and white movie about an old woman having dinner by herself. They watch this shit EVERY year. In English speaking countries, the tradition is to kiss someone after the new year starts. That will definitely bring you good luck, studies show.

All the superstition and traditions around NYE are a sad confirmation of how superfluous people can be as we copy our ancestors who would bring offerings to all sorts of 'gods' in a desperate attempt to get their wishes granted in pathetic rituals.

We are led to believe that January is our chance to new beginnings. The new year’s resolutions (which people rarely fulfill) and the feeling that we are starting over, that we are being given a new chance are nothing but a lie. What we see in reality is that all that new year bull crap lasts for as long as the fireworks crack and sometime around 1am on January 1st, we secretly think to ourselves ‘now what?’.

And no matter how many decades we have been watching our lives getting worse each year, we still get fooled by the fake hope and the 'magic' new year, when 'everything will be better'. Many people suddenly feel depressed because the supposedly ‘hope’ they had in their hearts fades away with the realization that everything remains the same. We feel abandoned and hopeless - until the new cycle of fake hope begins.

What are we expecting really? January is not even the real new year to begin with. As I mentioned in my last post, the new year celebration in the winter was a way to ‘masquerade’ our ancestors’ pagan sun worship. If the sun was in its normal track, it was a sign of relief for the ancient peoples. In scriptures the new year is clear and should start in the month of Passover. In 2022, the real new year will be in early April.

'And Yahuah spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you'. (Exodus 12:1-2)

So what is the month of January about? The word January comes from Janus. Janus is the two faced ‘god’. It’s the god that faces both the past with his long beard and also faces the future with a freshly shaved face.

‘Janus was the god of beginnings and transitions in Roman mythology, and presided over passages, doors, gates and endings, as well as in transitional periods such as from war to peace. He was usually depicted as having two faces looking at opposite ways, one towards the past and the other towards the future.’

Let's accept the truth: the ‘god’ of the new year will not solve our problems. The ‘god’ Janus will not magically make our pain disappear, or our debt. The new year hope is fake, is human in nature and ignores the only One who can actually fulfill our lives: the One who created us.

The reason we suddenly feel melancholic at 1am on January 1st is our incapacity of solving our own problems, of bringing peace to ourselves. No matter how many magic spells or stupid rituals we engage with in NYE, nothing will change, for real meaning lies in having a relationship with our Father.

By making us all believe in a renovated year where ‘everything will be alright’, our worldly controllers make sure we forget who is in charge and we no longer put our hopes on who can actually make a difference. And Yahuah is not expecting us to wear yellow panties or jump waves - all He wishes for is that we love Him above everything else and that we obey Him (for He knows what is best for us). We obey so many worthless humans, why not make this year a year when we change our mindset? I invite you to consider celebrating the feasts of our Creator in 2022. Not because we have to, but out of love.

Hug your loved ones, enjoy their company and have a good meal. But I would advice against putting any hope that the 'new' year will be any better just because we are moving from December to January. Let's put our hope, our love and our energy in the only One who cares about us and is waiting for us to love Him back.

I wish for you and your loved ones wisdom in this new worldly year. Most importantly, that our Messiah Yahusha gives us not only strength to face all adversities that may come our ways, but also the peace of his presence in our lives.