Ugadi (en télougou : ఉగాది) ou Yugadi (en kannada : ಯುಗಾದಿ), également connu sous le nom de Samvatsarādi (qui signifie “début de l'année”), est le jour de l'An selon un calendrier hindou luni-solaire. Cette fête, en rapport avec le solstice de printemps, est principalement célébrée dans les États indiens d' Andhra Pradesh, de Telangana et de Karnataka. Le premier jour de chaque année, qui est aussi le premier jour du mois de chaitra, est appelé « Ugadi », composé de yuga, “âge” ou “année” en sanscrit, et ādi qui signifie “début”.

Au Maharashtra, à Goa et même à l’île Maurice, cette fête est connue sous le nom de Gudi Padwa (en marathe : गुढीपाडवा, en konkanais : गुडीपाडवो). À Bali, elle porte de le nom de Nyepi est fêtée les 29 et 30 mars de 2025. On entre dans l’année 1947 du calendrier balinais. La date de ce Nouvel an de l’Inde du Sud, tombe chaque année à la fin du mois de mars ou début avril.

Ugadi ou Gudi Padwa est l’occasion de repas en famille, d’échanges de cadeaux et de visites au temple. Les jours précédents, on aura préparé la nouvelle année en notoyant la maison et en faisant l’acquisition de vêtements neufs. Le plat spécial préparé pour ce jour-là est le pachadi est un plat festif remarquable qui combine toutes les saveurs : sucré, acide, salé, amer, astringent et piquant. Dans les traditions hindoues telugu et kannada, c'est un rappel symbolique à ce à quoi qu'il faut s'attendre pour la nouvelle année (un mélange d'humeurs différentes (tristesse, joie, colère, peur, dégoût, surprise), afin d’en tirer le meilleur parti.

Happy Ugadi

As we commence a new lunar year, NB Healthcare Technologies sends its warmest wishes to you for a delightful Ugadi celebration.

We sincerely hope for your prosperity in all aspects of life, and may this auspicious day bring you happiness, serenity, and accomplishment in all your endeavors.

I receive a message from a great medicine woman back in Chicago:

This weekend we will be celebrating Ugadi, which is the 1st day of the Lunar New Year. It is a very auspicious weekend as we are starting New Lunar Cycle, which will last 60 years. 2022 is the 1st year of the cycle.

It is believed that the whole year will be calm and happy when people celebrate the Ugadi Festival with customs and traditions.

Happy Fresh Beginning - HAPPY UGADI!

It is a very rare situation that Sun and Moon's Cycles start in the same year, which is 2022.

If you are ready to release anything that doesn't resonate with you and you are ready to make room for something new. This is the weekend for you. It's time to release procrastination to start creating the life you deserve and always wanted.

Ugadi or Yugadi is celebrated as the first day of the year. The name Yugadi or Ugadi is derived from the Sanskrit words yuga (age) and ādi (starting) - 'the beginning of a new age. On this day new Samvatsara,(Sanskrit name of year) which is a cycle of sixty years, starts. All sixty Samvatsara ( each year from the 60) are identified by a unique name. The date of Ugadi is based on calculations of the position of the moon dating back to the 12th century. Ugadi begins on the first new moon after the Spring Equinox. The legend behind this festival is that the Creator of our Universe was creating it for 9 days. He created the universe on Ugadi which is celebrated the next morning and starts from sunrise.

This date usually falls in late March or early April in the western calendar and this date moon signifies a change in the seasons and in our lives.

The significance and meaning behind Ugadi Pachadi are, people have to face every feeling in their life with equality. Even fear, sadness has the same priority as happiness and brave. We are a mixture of all the feelings.

Purging happens when the moon is waning after the full moon. More negative thoughts arrive. I felt intense sadness and regret. Then it went away.

Sometimes it takes you several times to say it before you mean it. I thought I was lying to myself but now I know I was just building myself. I’m becoming quite immaculate, layers of grace, I sparkle like gold. And that is all my own doing. No one can love you like you can love yourself.

It takes time. It takes dreams of ex-boyfriends dying. It takes purging through self-disgust, through shock and shame at your own imperfections, your own sinfulness, malice, cunning. Feel the darkness you’ve created, go through it, not around it. It always passes, if you don’t fight it.

It takes compassion, nostalgia for infinity, for timelessness, for limitlessness. Those are the keys, not just the dreams, to your own expansion, even in this humble realm where war is king and ambition is queen and the princes and princesses come dressed in clothes of slaughter.

I cry so easily now, it’s a beautiful thing. I remember so clearly where I come from, where I’m meant to be.

I still have moments when I wonder if my heart is pure. Sometimes I do things out of alignment from my heart. I am still practicing, still learning, still growing. Someday maybe I’ll sit on my heart like a mountain and look at everything from there.

Thinking to myself the humming bird might not show until it gets really hot and then it shows up directly in my line of vision.

If you can make your mind quiet enough you can hear nature in your mind.

Nature will interrupt you when you’re wrong.

I know being home is right because of the sparkling green in the grass, the sparkle in my mom's eye, my own sparkling laugh and cry.

My period starts the day of the red moon wave spell.

I get a headache so I go to sit in the lake for five minutes. I get comfortable in the cold quick now so I’ll start doing ten minutes. Headache gone.

I really don’t care about anything anymore. Care is just another word for grieve. You can look up the etymology.

My ambitions dwell in pools of shimmering emotions.

They flow over me like heat rises off streets.

Which one shall I play with next?

There are ways you can blur your eyesight and ways you can blur your brain.

You can take the sharp and make it soft to dull the pain.

Each day I wonder what we’re all waking up to.

The color blue is relatively new.

I know I’m made for an incredible life, a destiny.

Life pulses bigger I get bolder.

And who am I?

Aries is my first house no cusp. The sun burns across my personality.

Last April a fiery romance.

This April a fiery masterpiece.

I await my magic date. It appears in an essay I print out by Cormac McCarthy.

I find an old journal from 2017 and 2018 and I’m surprised to find I wrote about the same themes, had the same ideas, obsessed with expansion, growth, and dreams.

ఈ కొత్త సంవత్సరం ఆనందం, శాంతి, శ్రేయస్సు మరియు సంతృప్తి మీకు మరియు మీ కుటుంబ సబ్యులకు ఎల్లపుడు ఉండలని కోరుకుంటూ ఈ క్రొత్త సంవత్సరం లోకి ఆహ్వానం పలుకుతూ.... హ్యాపీ ఉగాది!