Regardless of whether or when you celebrate the passing of time and changing of cycles, the notion of a year is the same. It is the symbol of a full cycle, a circle, a completion of a process. This process is seasonal, solar, lunar, planetary, plant and animal. This process is life. Everything has a pre-beginning, birth, growth, reaching-of-full-potential, release, dissemination, eventual death and reabsorption into the stuff that things come from...