so sorry you are dealing with thsi ,, hope it gets better

Can't argue the nerd-wonk-geek on this one. Solstices are notorious for messing with us. It's the Mama Nature bio-clock reset, with an arse-boot as well. I think it's why so many major holiday celebrations going back to, probably, the first sentient primates are scheduled at or near a solstice. A "safety valve" for the unsettling feeling....

I get that unsettled/unsettling feeling. My Polish grandma once joked she could tell the date by her hens, her grandchild (me), and the barking of the dog. Not sure what that makes me, exactly, but I feel it as if there's a build-up to a massive *groan* and until that's "released", it's just.... edgy. Not right. Anticipatory.

Mind you, I spent more time in the woods and fields among the critters than among people whenever I could help it as a kid, so I probably just learned it from them. I wish I had words to explain the sensation. I've had it all my life, whether living ex-urb or rural, even at college, so I suspect my subconscious simply notes the cues that I noticed the other living things noticing?

Long-winded reply, sorry, but it's as if there's an ache in unseen bones and until it eases, nothing else can, either?

I'll add, to be more relevant, Arfie, that birds seemed most strongly affected but ground-burrowing critters were close behind. And my best friend as a kid (my dog) could never settle down during a solstice week-ten-day period. What I really noticed was the stillness *after* in winter and the sudden rush of ripening *after* in summer. I swear the plants were waiting, too. Even the stones under my feet here in Virginia. I never got that as strong on sedimentary rocks, but here in igneous-metamorphic? There's places I can't go because they just feel as if they're about to shiver.

I am one of the disrupted critters, in other words. Post-solstice, I always *pop*. Equinoxes are a sense of "tipping", but a solstice? Yeah. The essential realization (and this was when I was four and couldn't tell you a thing about Einstein or Newton) that it was time to.... Time to.... And then? *exhale*

For me, the tell in not in the relation of the kid. It is in the age of the kid. Not that you are no longer a child, I doubt a Polish grandmother could read any more than this mixed-breed grandmother can tell from her middle aged "kids." The two-year-old grandkid is an organic barometer. He, too, will out-grow it eventually.

No such thing as "Off-Topic" on this thread. The shifting of the planetary axis is a Global Event. It is all affected.

I have been sleeping way too much. I don't know if that may have something to do with it?

I do know I am a night person and the moon gives me a lot of energy. I have seen the cat has been very hyper, running around tearing up the rugs as he speeds through the apartment. Its pretty funny

I sleep extra during winter solstice, too. I call it, "my hibernation instinct." It is not a problem when I can just flow with it. To the contrary, it seems quite rejuvenating. I get grumpy as an old grizzly if you disturb my hibernation, though. Ya doesn't wanna meet the ho of my ho.

The cat running around the apartment, tearing things up would be a prime example of the agitation. My dog is whining like a baby and acting extra needy. My son's dog is acting the clown. My chickens are clucking and pecking at whatever they can get their beaks on. I had a wild aztec dove buzz me while I was cleaning out the coop.

Just how much physical force does it take to halt the direction of a planet and start it tilting the opposite direction? How many physical sub-forces are affected by that much physical force?