MATARIKI = the Southern New Year
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It falls around the winter solstice, the 7 sisters arise at dawn. The ground is too cold for much planting work, and the harvests are all in. It is time for a holiday, feast time, for remembering those past, and hoping and planning for the future. A time for mid-winter Christmas celebrations and solstice swims, for kite flying, for hunkering down and keeping warm. A time of peace….