In the article, the author discusses how the New Year reminds people that they cannot foresee the future. Also cited are how January as the month of the god of beginnings and endings Janus is a month of doors and thresholds, the superstitious beliefs of the New Year, and the events in British history that occurred in December and January like the consecration of the royal church built by English King Edward the Confessor at Westminster Abbey in 1065.