Pkin New Year's Day
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Date: March 1
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Celebrates: The start of the Pkin Year
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Customs
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Mentors and Practitioners encouraging each other in the direction of growth
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Setting goals
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Practitioners reflecting on the previous year of their Cycles and what they learned, as well as looking forward to their next (or current) year and how they wish to grow
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Mentors reflecting on their previous year of Mentoring and what they learned, as well as looking forward to their next (or current) year and how they can improve their Mentoring skills
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Pkinists celebrating milestones or Rites of Passage they've had in the previous year or coming up for them in the next year, like:
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Becoming a Pkinist (≤ age 12 for Real-Time, ≥ age 12 for Retroactive)
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Starting their Pkin Cycle (1st Reevcie) (≥ age 12)
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Transitioning to the Attunement Phase (7th Reevcie; ≥ age 18)
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Celebrating their Wisdom (12th and final) Reevcie (≥ age 23)
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Having their Cycle Commemoration Ceremony (≥ age 24)
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Getting Married (≥ age 24)​
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Becoming a Mentor (≥ age 24)
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Mentor Appreciation Day
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Date: August 16
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Celebrates: Good, non-abusive Pkin Mentors everywhere
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Additional Significance: The birthday of Ren Moulaison's mother and Pkin Mentor, Kris Moulaison
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Customs
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​Practitioners giving gifts to Mentors (their own and others')
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Practitioners preparing their Mentors' favorite meals for them
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Practitioners and Mentors alike giving words of appreciation to Mentors
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Retroactive Practitioner Appreciation Day
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Date: January 19
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Celebrates: Pkin Practitioners whose Cycles are Retroactive
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Additional Significance: The day Ren Moulaison expanded the eligibility of Practitioners to include those who practice on behalf of their teen/young adult selves (January 19, 2022)
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Customs
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Retroactive Practitioners receiving gifts​
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Celebrating aspects of the practice that are unique to Retroactive Cycles
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Ren Moulaison's Birthday
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Date: February 10
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Celebrates: The birthday of Pkinism's Founder, Ren Moulaison
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Customs
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Putting on plays about Ren's Allegories, The Flame Network
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Reading The Flame Network
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Pkin Legacy Day
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Date: February 10
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Celebrates:
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Ren's decision to continue receiving Physical Archetypes for her birthday, and to pass on this tradition to her descendants
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All Legacy Practitioners and their parents
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Additional Significance: On her birthday in 2009, then 13 year-old Ren was hanging out with her brother (Conner) and playing with Birval and her then-brand-new teddy bear Valbir, when she decided to give Birval to Conner; the reason she did this was because Birval was a boy and Valbir was a girl, so the bears' genders would've matched with Ren and Conner's in her mind. However, after Conner left Ren's room, she regretted the decision and went back to retrieve the bear. This resulted in an argument where Conner insisted on keeping Birval because Ren gave the bear to him as a gift, and Ren wanted him back because she was emotionally attached. Before long, their father (Eddie Moulaison) heard the commotion and came into the room to ask what was going on, upon which the siblings stated their cases. Eddie ultimately decided that Birval was rightfully Ren's, and gave the teddy bear back to her. Following all of this, Ren came up with the idea to receive one teddy bear each year until she was 23, and eventually pass some of them down to her future kids; many years later, she ended up scrapping the idea of passing down her Physical Archetypes, but kept the part about passing on the tradition to her descendants.
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Customs
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Legacy Practitioners and their parents giving each other gifts
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Archetype Appreciation Day
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Date: February 17
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Celebrates: All Archetypes of Pkinist Practitioners - previous and current
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Additional Significance: The day Ren Moulaison first began to appreciate the existence of her first Archetype, Birval (Tyler Brown in The Flame Network), which birthed the existence of Pkinism itself (February 17, 2008)
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Customs
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Honoring the significant role Archetypes play in Practitioner​s' lives
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Retellings of the story about Ren's first week with Birval, as well as retellings of the first story in The Flame Network, A Second Chance
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Retellings of Allegories about different Archetypes​​
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On that note, setting aside time to write these Allegories​
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Practitioners (previous and current) recalling their favorite memories about their Archetypes
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Pkin New Year's Eve
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Dates: February 28/29
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Celebrates: The end of the Pkin Year
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Customs
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Throwing a party and counting down to the new year together
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Practitioners reflecting on the previous year of their Cycles and what they learned, as well as looking forward to their next (or current) year and how they wish to grow
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Mentors reflecting on their previous year of Mentoring and what they learned, as well as looking forward to their next (or current) year and how they can improve their Mentoring skills
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Pkinists celebrating milestones or Rites of Passage they've had in the previous year or coming up for them in the next year, like:
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Becoming a Pkinist (≤ age 12 for Real-Time, ≥ age 12 for Retroactive)
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Starting their Pkin Cycle (1st Reevcie; ≥ age 12)
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Transitioning to the Attunement Phase (7th Reevcie; ≥ age 18)
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Celebrating their Wisdom (12th and final) Reevcie (≥ age 23)
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Having their Cycle Commemoration Ceremony (≥ age 24)
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Having their Beoiwt Tere (getting married; ≥ age 24)​
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Becoming a Mentor (≥ age 24)
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