Where Time Dies, Pauses, and is Reborn 

"Time is not a straight line. It moves like a breath."

Every year, the Sun performs a simple but profound ritual:

• it falls to its lowest point,
   
• it stands still for three days,
   
• and then it rises again.
   

The Solar Reset Window reveals the real architecture behind:

• the end-of-year shutdown,
   
• our instinct to rest at Christmas,
   
• and the way humans feel time in their bodies.
   

This page sits between the Decanic Business Calendar and the Cosmic Framework -
showing how the rhythm of business is nested inside the rhythm of the Sun.

From December 22–24, the Sun appears to stop moving on the horizon.

It doesn’t rise higher.
It doesn’t fall lower.
It simply holds its position.

To ancient sky-watchers, this became:

• the three nights of stillness,
• the tomb,
• the underworld,
• the womb of the Mother.
   

The world feels paused -
as if time itself is taking a breath.

⭐ A Note on the “Three Days of Darkness”

Many traditions speak of three days of darkness - often interpreted as a catastrophic prophecy.

In the original sky-teachings, this was never about disaster.

It described one simple astronomical reality:

After the Winter Solstice, the Sun appears to stop moving for three days.

To ancient observers, this meant:

• the Sun had “entered the underworld,” 
• the world was in symbolic night,
• light was preparing to return.
   

This natural pause became mythologised as:

• the Tomb,
• the Underworld,
• the Three Nights of Darkness,
• and later, the three days before resurrection in Christian tradition.
   

Nothing ends -
it resets.

Every December, without fear or drama,
the Sun rests for three days before beginning its rise on December 25.

 The Threshold of Stillness 

 This still point is the Zero Node of the year:

• no longer the old cycle,
• not yet the new one.

It is the liminal threshold where:

• old patterns dissolve,
• new patterns are not yet born,
• and the nervous system naturally turns inward.  

This is why so many people feel reflective, emotional, or quietly unsettled in the final days before Christmas - the body is reading the sky. 

 Many spiritual traditions reflect this solar pattern in human form.

The story of Jesus - three days in the tomb, then resurrection - follows the same rhythm as the three days of stillness and the rising Sun.

In Merkabah language, the Solar Christos is:

• the light of consciousness returning,
• the inner sun waking inside the human heart,
• the reminder that renewal is built into the fabric of time.
   

This page honours the symbol without needing to debate doctrine.

The pattern is universal: death → stillness → rebirth.

 The Egyptian calendar carried a powerful secret.

They recognised 360 days as the circle of the year -
and then added five extra “Eternal Days” that sit outside the normal cycle.

These days belong to:

• Osiris – Release and completion
• Isis – Healing and reweaving
• Set – Trial and refinement
• Nephthys – Mystery and dreaming
• Horus – Rebirth and vision
   

These are not ordinary days.
They are the bridge between one year and the next — the meta-cycle that allows the new pattern to land.

In Merkabah, they function as:

• reflection days,
• reset days,
• leadership and strategy days,
• spiritual calibration days.

A perfect circle holds 360 degrees -
the geometry of creation.

The additional five eternal days are the crown -
the higher octave that lifts the year
into a new spiral of consciousness.

This is the Solar Merkabah:

360 + 5 = the Living Year.

Just as Christmas encodes the solar rebirth,
Easter encodes the solar resurrection that occurs each Spring.
Both stories follow the Sun’s path -
one at Winter Solstice,
one at the Spring Equinox.

Different seasons.
Same cosmic heartbeat.