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Is It Time For A New Calendar?

Posted on Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 10:43 pm
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Since 1582 the standard world calendar has been the 12-month Gregorian calendar, in which the months have an unequal number of days (28,29,30, and 31) and do not correspond to any cycle of nature. It does not reflect or teach us about the natural rhythms of our journey around the Sun – nor does it help us with our relationship to our orbiting moon
The word ‘Calends’ comes from Roman words meaning an account book, referring to monthly debts to be paid.  The Gregorian calendar obtains its names mostly from gods (March from Roman Mars) or leaders of empires (July and August from the first Cæsars), or ordinals that got out of synchronisation (September through December, originally seventh through tenth, now ninth through twelfth ).
There are those who propose that we should move to a 13 month count:
13 moons x 28 days = 364 + one day out of time = 365 days.
The extra day is called “the day out of time”, which is the Mayan New Year’s Day and it corresponds to our 25th July.
The Mayan calendar integrates many “twin” aspects, like Sun and Moon which represent male and female. Its concepts are based on moon, tides and human biorhythms, similar to female cycles. As well as Mayans, Druids, Incans, ancient Egyptians and Polynesians also used a 13 month count.
In 1933 there was a proposal to the League of Nations that was going to switch to a 13 month calendar but the proposal was vetoed by the USA following objection from representatives of the Catholic Church saying that it would anger God and cause “chaos, barbarism, and war.”
At the root of the world’s imbalance is humanity’s alienation from nature. This alienation is emphasised by our use of the artificial man-made frequency of time called the “12:60″. We could even say that the motto of the 12:60 paradigm is “time is money.”
Perhaps if we were to start using a nature-based rhythm 13 month measure of days it would help us to reconnect us to the wisdom of our ancestors as well as increase our harmony with the planet and galaxy we live in.

Since 1582 the standard world calendar has been the 12-month Gregorian calendar, in which the months have an unequal number of days (28,29,30, and 31) and do not correspond to any cycle of nature. It does not reflect or teach us about the natural rhythms of our journey around the Sun – nor does it help us with our relationship to our orbiting moon

The word ‘Calends’ comes from Roman words meaning an account book, referring to monthly debts to be paid.  The Gregorian calendar obtains its names mostly from gods (March from Roman Mars) or leaders of empires (July and August from the first Cæsars), or ordinals that got out of synchronisation (September through December, originally seventh through tenth, now ninth through twelfth ).

One proposal is that we should move to a 13 month count:

13 moons x 28 days = 364 + one day out of time = 365 days.

The extra day is called “the day out of time”, which is the Mayan New Year’s Day and it corresponds to our 25th July.

The Mayan calendar integrates many “twin” aspects, like Sun and Moon which represent male and female. Its concepts are based on moon, tides and human biorhythms, similar to female cycles. As well as Mayans, Druids, Incans, ancient Egyptians and Polynesians also used a 13 month count.

In 1933 there was a proposal to the League of Nations that was going to switch to a 13 month calendar but the proposal was vetoed by the USA following objection from representatives of the Catholic Church saying that it would anger God and cause “chaos, barbarism, and war.”

At the root of the world’s imbalance is humanity’s alienation from nature. This alienation is emphasised by our use of the artificial man-made frequency of time called the “12:60″. We could even say that the motto of the 12:60 paradigm is “time is money.”

Perhaps if we were to start using a nature-based rhythm 13 month measure of days it would help us to reconnect us to the wisdom of our ancestors as well as increase our harmony with the planet and galaxy we live in.

Sources:

http://www.13moon.com

Calendar reform from Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_reform

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