Calendrical Insight | Sono Sol Gold

Practical, practice-forward guide for listeners and practitioners who want to use sound and focused listening as an orientation practice across the late-winter window from Dàhán (Major Cold) into Lìchūn (Beginning of Spring) — timed to the 2026 Bǐng-Wŭ (Fire-Horse) year. This is artist-led, speculative, and intentionally non-therapeutic: it offers compositional templates, listening protocols, and evocative Taoist phrasing to help you notice structure, tone, and proportion in sound during a time often experienced as both contraction and ignition.

Solar Light Alchemy — Dahan → Lichun (Preparing to Orient in the Bing-Wu / 2026 Fire-Horse Year)

(Practical dates: Dàhán typically falls around Jan 20–Feb 4; Lìchūn typically falls Feb 3–5 in the Gregorian calendar. These solar-term markers are astronomical points in the 24-term cycle used to orient seasonal practice.) ( Wikipedia ) 1 — Why this window matters (artistically) The span from Dàhán → Lìchūn is a natural hinge: deep seasonal contraction gives way to the first stirrings of emergence. In 2026 this hinge overlays the sixty-year sexagenary marker known as Bǐng-

Tufani Mayfield

Jan 244 min read