Happy Makara Sankranti.. 🌞🌤️🌷💚💜😃

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Happy Makara sankranti 🌷🌞💖🍫

Makara Sankranti or Maghi, is a festival day in the Hindu calendar 🚩, dedicated to the deity Surya 🌞 (sun). It is observed each year in the lunar month of Magha which corresponds with the month of January as per the Gregorian calendar and is a day the people of India and Nepal celebrate 💐 their harvest. it marks the first day of the sun’s transit into Makara rashi (Capricorn), marking the end of the month with the winter❄️ solstice and the start of longer days.

Makara Sankranti is one of the few ancient Indian and Nepali festivals that has been observed according to solar cycles, while most festivals are set by the lunar cycle of the lunisolar Hindu 🚩📆 calendar. Being a festival that celebrates the solar cycle, it almost always falls on the same Gregorian date every year (January 14/15)except in some years when the date shifts by a day for that year.

The festivities associated with Makar Sankranti are known by various names, such as Maghe Sankranti in 💚 Nepal, Magh Bihu in 💛Assam, Maghi (preceded by Lohri) in Punjab, Haryana and 💜 Himachal Pradesh, popular amongst both the Hindus and Sikhs, Sukarat ❤️ in central India, Thai Pongal 💙 in Tamil Nadu, Ghughuti 💛in Uttarakhand or simply as ‘Makara Sankranti’ 💚 in Odisha, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Goa, Andhra Pradesh (also called Pedda Pandaga), Telangana, West Bengal (also called Poush Sankranti) and Uttar Pradesh (also called Khichdi Sankranti)

Makara Sankranti 💖 is observed with social festivities such as colorful decorations🎊🎉, rural children going house to house, singing🎤 and asking for treats in some areas ,melas (fairs), dances, kite flying, bonfires and feasts. The Magha Mela, according to Diana L. Eck (professor at Harvard University specializing in Indology), is mentioned in the Hindu epic Mahabharat. Many observers go to sacred rivers💙 or lakes and bathe in a ceremony of thanks to the sun. Every twelve years(marking one complete revolution of Jupiter around the Sun) the Hindus observe Makar Sankranti 💜 with one of the world’s largest mass pilgrimages, with an estimated 40 to 100 million people attending the event. At this event, then they say a prayer to the sun and bathe at the Prayaga confluence of the River Ganga and River Yamuna at the Kumbha Mela, a tradition attributed to Adi Shankaracharya.

May the Sun God 🌞 bring fills your life

and

home with sunshine 💛 and happiness.💖

🌈❤️ Happy Makar Sankranti! 🍫🌷

– Anjali , RBWF 😊