January Cold Moon Unalvtani This time of the season is a time for personal and ritual observance, fasting and personal purification. During this season families prepare for the coming of the new season, starting in Windy Moon Anuyi or March. Personal items and tools for planting are repaired and new ones made. Stories about ancestors and family are imparted to the younger ones by the elders. A mid-winter or “Cold Moon” Dance is usually held in community as well, marking the passing or ending of one cycle of seasons and welcoming the beginning of the new cycle. Hearth fires are put out and new ones made. The putting out of Fires and lighting of new ones is the duty of certain “priest” of certain clans and coincides with the first new arrival of the morning star (Sun's daughter, now called Venus) in the east.