The current version has two main changes:
1. The consecutive shuttle and draw poussettes continue in the same direction; there is no reversing from a clockwise poussette of one kind to a counterclockwise one of the other kind or vice versa.
2. I changed a chevron and cast to set and link. I think it works just as well in the dance, and it is a bit easier to teach. The fact that the figure is borrowed from Scottish country dancing is a bonus cultural resonance with Robert Burns, the author of the poem Auld Lang Syne.
I chose figures with rotation to evoke the turning of the year and other cycles. Some figures cross the phrase, to suggest that the cycles go on regardless of landmarks of time: right hands across/left hands across and the ending half poussette and the starting half poussette. The consecutive half poussettes at the end of one round into the start of the next have the effect of zig-zagging first with original neighbors then with new neighbors.
Emphasize difference between regular shuttle poussette and draw poussette. A1 ends with all improper, not progressed
A2: The path of the figure is the same as neighbors back to back, but dancers keep eyes on partner. People in first corner positions (they happen to be original second corners) advance at start of this figure.
B1: Set and link: Neighbors take inside hands as they face partners across the set. Neighbors change places, the one on the right casting up or down, the one on the left turning over right shoulder through the center.
B2: The people who draw (pull) are original second corners in their corner's place.