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Astronomical Winter (The Reason For The Season)

by The Aeon Wanderers

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It's that time of year again! It's almost like clockwork - gears within wheels within circles - how this festive season recurs annually... the temperature dips, the snowflakes fly, the lights twinkle, the children's cheeks are all aglow... the anticipation builds. What's coming our way this December? Is it? Could it be? Yes it could! Look to the skies and sing along as we celebrate the Reason for the Season.

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The days are getting shorter now
In the final quarter now
Preparations get underway
Everyone remembers
The last half of December
When something big is coming our way

Breath is steaming, snowflakes gleaming
Wonder in their eyes
Parents scheming, children dreaming
And looking to the skies

It’s the start of astronomical winter
Astronomical winter is here
When the nights are long and the days are gone
You know that it's the darkest time of the year!
It's gonna be an astronomical winter
Until Orion disappears
Come join the fun, cause it’s just begun
But only in the northern hemisphere

We've known it since antiquity
Lean of Earth's obliquity
Tilting us away from the sun
The axes of rotation and
Orbit are relational
Scorch the tropic of Capricorn

And so we ease in to the freezing
With longer days to come
It's the reason for the season
And it’s the only one

It’s the start of astronomical winter
Astronomical winter is here
When the nights are long and the days are gone
You know that it's the darkest time of the year!
It's gonna be an astronomical winter
Until Orion disappears
We won’t have long in the solstice sun
Up here in the northern hemisphere

We anticipate the question
You'll ask about precession
Forgive the indiscretion
Overt in this digression
For it's a mild obsession
The longer term progression
Polaris to Vega
The North Star will waver
Thus meaning the season
Will favour New Zealand
in roughly twelve thousand years!

It’s the start of astronomical winter
Astronomical winter is here
When the nights are long and the days are gone
You know that it's the darkest time of the year!
It's gonna be an astronomical winter
Until Orion disappears
Come join the fun in the solstice sun

Cause it’s the start of astronomical winter
Astronomical winter is here
When the nights are long and the days are gone
You know that it's the darkest time of the year!
It's gonna be an astronomical winter
Until Orion disappears
We won’t have long in the solstice sun
But only in the northern hemisphere.

Closest to the sun at perihelion
It's the reason for the freezing season

Solstice sun, come on and join the fun
But only in the northern hemisphere

Not meteorological, this one’s cosmological
23 point 4 out of line
Mainly astronomical, sometimes gastronomical
Ticking over all of the time

Antipodal on the geosphere in the southern hemisphere
Astronomic winter's in June
But earth has been receding and theirs is at aphelion
Solstice sun is shining there too...

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released December 21, 2022

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The Aeon Wanderers Boston, Massachusetts

The Aeon Wanderers are a transatlantic duo who have been recording together since 2016. With a distinctive vocal blend and a penchant for sometimes dramatic musical arrangements, their songs flow from hauntingly etherial to brazenly bombastic, with occasional stops at points in between. Their debut album, Fictional Histories, is a conversation about mid-life arrival and where the paths lead next. ... more

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