Jennifer Geard wrote:
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> We've sort of had this discussion in our group. It's not fully resolved, but
> here's what we've come up with so far.
>
> Everyone who's not a babe in arms gets a year older at sacred time. Your
> counter increments sometime during the ritual. Doesn't matter what time of
> year you were actually born.
...
The Anglo Saxons, to judge by their poetry, reckoned people's age by the
number of winters they had lived through, so the thing to celebrate
might by the spring equinox rather than your birthday.