The month we are living in holds a variety of important happenings going on in different parts of the world. Mainly shared, blown over in one century or another.

A good example is our traditional Sinterklaas festivity, or better said Saint Nicolas: the good old fellow died 1676 years ago, so U can imagine that the nowadays “tradition” has morphed into a festivity nothing to do with the old bastards legacy.

In fact Sinterklaas eyes nearer to Odin (longbearded; the Turkish Saint never) sat at his flying horse Sleipnir with his staff Gungnir, accompanied by his black crows Huginn and Muninn. They were in charge to differ the good from the bad, listening into the chimneys. Whereas the sac and the “roe” came from the Moorish pirates, stealing people along the coastline up to Iceland for slavery. Not the other way around as some Dutch politicians claim and profess.

Black Friday is yet another fine example of mutation from the original happening! As in term first recorded use, was applied to the financial crisis in 1869. The crash of the gold market provoked by the notorious friends Gould and Fisk who with their shenanigan going pear shaped caused Wall Street Barons and Farmers all go bankrupt.

Forget about the Southern plantation owners in the 1800 having discount, the day after Thanksgiving at the slave market…Anyhow rambling again! or maybe not.

Black is and always has been very controversial in meaning, usage and significance.

Wearing black can be modest though arrogant at the same time, depending on who and where worn. The Egyptians considered it a positive colour like the fertility of the black soil the Nile brought. So was Anubis The black Jackal offering protection to the dead from all evil.

The Romans associated the colour with mourning and witches, maybe that is the reason of the Middle-Age clerics dressing in black: hoping to defeat with their solemnity and authority the evil women’s power all declared witches.

China considers it a colour of positive disorder which leads to change and new life, whereas the Japanese conceive black the colour of experience. Think about the black belt or the groom always in black. Women are considered pure and not to have experience! (the horror, the whore!)

In physics (there it is), a black body is a perfect absorber of light, but by thermodynamic rule also the best emitter. For those who fell in love with the ultimate religion (Quantum KNOWLEDGE): in Astronomy, the Olbers’ Paradox was “helped” by the Doppler effect centuries later. It explained his theory about the black sky visual from mother earth.

Why is it still black, when there are enough stars to lighten up the whole of it?! For the curious among U: it has to do with the age of the universe and the stars we are not able to see as the travelling of the light and the universe expanding does not allow us to capture their light…talking about multiverse.

Black is back from never have left! Be happy, celebrate what ever who ever U bloody want and don’t let them convince U what does not work in your own fucking interest!

May Harmony find U,

Irena Phaedra