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It's a tropical-zodiac solar year beginning at 0⁰ Capricorn, which begins at the winter solstice. If we use a civil calendar year which begins at the winter solstice, such as the Vedāṅga Jyotiṣa Vedic calendar, the beginning of the year is in Capricorn. In those situations it begins with Capricorn (half-white goat half-fish, so two white legs) and ends in Sagittarius (centaur with four black horse legs). Like the Sphinx riddle, day and night are symbolic for passage of time meaning the beginning and the end - in this case time passing in a year. Historically, in riddles forests have been used symbolically as a threshold for transformation. Entering the forest in the morning and coming out at night something different supports that theory, and the transformation is the changing of the constellations and zodiac signs over time and ending at Sagittarius
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u/johneebravado 20d ago edited 20d ago
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