A calendar unites the people and the land.
The 13-Moon Calendar has been followed for over 5000 years. "We find evidence of its use as a prehistoric synchronic measure in the remote past of China, Polynesia, and scattered across late neolithic Europe and the Middle East." - Dr. José Argüelles, PhD Around the globe we find breath-taking reminders of the monumental role that calendars have played throughout human history. Why are calendars so important? What function do they serve in our lives? The current world calendar:
In essence, a calendar produces the faculty by which we operate, and the lens through which we see...
The 12-month calendar is arbitrary and irregular, lacking any correspondence to actual cycles of nature. Put simply by physicist Mark Comings:"The 12 month calendar has a cycle that is contrary to and out of phase with the natural annual 13 fold gravitational wave created by the Moon's orbit around the Earth." This lack of harmony, though generally un-examined, has a profound effect on the way we relate to the Universe we live within.
This graphic 2-dimensionally depicts the Earth travelling around
the Sun: The current world calendar divides the year as if it were a 2-D circle. 360 degrees of a flat circle are portioned into 12 subsections of 30 degrees each, giving us "30" day months. This method of calendrics dates back to ancient Babylon and provides the template for the current 12-month calendar and 12-hour clock (doubling the calculation, we get 24 hours and 60 minutes). The 12-month model for measuring time fails for the 365-day year divided arbitrarily into 30-day months leaves 5 extra days! How does it resolve this discrepancy? Some of the months are 31 days, some 30, yet February gets 28 days, except for an extra day once every four years (but not on centuries, except those divisible by the number four). "30 days has Septober. April, June, and no wonder. All the rest have peanut butter, except my grandmother, who has a little red tricycle." -Mad Magazine, circa 1958 Wonder why the months named September through December, which literally mean 7-10, are actually months 9-12? What's in a name?
For example, today on the Gregorian calendar is Tues, December 3rd. What day of the week will January 3rd be? What day of the week will February 3rd be?
The 13 moon calendar
The 12-month calendar hides the 13th moon. The number 13 is now
surrounded by superstition and is considered taboo; unlucky; evil.
This fear is reinforced by cultural antiquities like "friday the
thirteenth." Often buildings have no 13th floor, or avoid
constructing a # 13 apt unit. Why?
The ancient Maya had an entirely different relationship to the number 13, actually revering it at as the Key to Time itself. 13 is the Mayan galactic prime number; the Force of The Universal Movement of Creation. Associated with the powers of endurance and longevity, the ancient vertebrate Turtle has 13 scales on its shell."The first calendar that North American Indians ever had was Turtle's shell...The Earth Mother, who was represented by the most fertile creature of our planet, the Turtle, showed our Ancestors how to mark the passing of each moon cycle. Turtle's shell bore the 13 moons of the year inside of a frame that formed the circle we call the Sacred Hoop, or Medicine Wheel - representing the relationship of all life to all life." -Author Jamie Sams
The name of "Turtle Island" to refer to Earth can represent our planet swimming in waves of radiant solar and cosmic energies. "Without the Thirteenth Moon; without placing the Thirteenth Moon back into our consciousness, we remain absolutely trapped in the complexification of form. With the 13th we have the transcendence and also the circulation of time." -Valum Votan The pattern of women's fertility cycles averages the 28-day, 13 moon ratio! Nature's rhythms live within us! Why has the 13th moon been hidden from us? What is to be gained by suppressing the creational principle of Mother Nature? As prominent theoretical physicist Gerard J. Milburn reveals, "The aim of modern science is to reach an understanding of the world, not merely for purely aesthetic reasons, but that it may be ordered to our purpose." Living under the guise of the 12-month calendar, we have come to view nature as irrelevant - wilderness without intelligence, sentience, or order. It is from this fundamentally flawed perception that humanity attempts to progress 'beyond the limitations of nature.' In fact, it is our model of nature that is flawed, not nature itself.
As a
comprehensive reflection of nature,
the
13-Moon Calendar is an organization of creational elements that
serves as a holistic tool for ongoing participation in life's cyclic
processes.
If humanity wish to produce harmony, we must use harmonic tools!
The 13-Moon Natural Time Calendar presents the Dreamspell - the interlacing of the 13-moon, 28-day solar/lunar round with the 13-Tone, 20-Tribe galactic spin. 13 X 20 = 260 distinct energies. This 260-day perpetual count is a perfect model of harmony - a universal expression of Nature's order, derived from the mathematics of the the ancient Maya. Referred to as the Harmonic Module, (called Tzolkin by the Yucatec Maya) this galactic count communicates the time ratios and patterns which unify our solar system with other star systems, and with the emanations of life-force from the center of the galaxy itself.
As a "galactic
constant" the 260-day cycle does not correspond to any known
astronomical period, yet the number 260 functions as a cosmic common
denominator to synthesize the cycles of the Sun, Moon, Earth, Mars,
Mercury, and Venus. In essence, it is the key factor of all the
planetary periods. The 260-day cycle also corresponds to the human
gestation period of approximately 9 months, perfectly expressing its
power as a cycle governing the unfolding of creation! We also see
260 in macro-cycles such as the grand, 26,000-year precession of the
equinoxes, which author John Major Jenkins points out is like a
"collective, spiritual gestation for humankind." Even eclipses
relate by a number whose factor is 260! As Jenkins assures us in his
insightful book "Tzolkin" - the 260-day cycle has "multiple
meanings," as it applies to "celestial, biological, agricultural,
mythological, and chronological processes."
enlarge image The harmonic numbers of the Tzolkin are as clear as our 20 fingers and toes - digits with which to measure the universe. Our body's 13 major joints, or articulations, move us through the universe. Through movement and measure, we experience each other and ourselves as the universe. From a whole system perspective, time, humanity, and nature are inseparable. Our physical and emotional bodies are moved by the same lunar, solar and planetary forces. Where we appear separate in space, we are unified in time. When we structure our lives by the artificial rhythm of the clock and 12-month calendar, we expose our central nervous system, and subsequently, our entire mental-emotional body to the frequency of a machine. Reknowned author and scientist Dr. Deepak Chopra, M.D., has presented studies showing how:the stress of linear time contributes directly to an acceleration of the physical aging process, inclusive of deterioration and disease. In modern industrial living, we wake up by the clock, we eat to the clock - we plan our lives and live our days in accord to the clock. We refer to the clock to program even our most basic of biological functions!
Quoting Mark Comings, Quantum Physicist:
"The
intrinsic folly of this unnecessary yet widely promoted artificial
dependance upon machine technology is that it discourages the
development of, and even serves to hide the existence of, a vast
spectrum of inner capacities - psychic, mental, emotional and
spiritual potentials - that lie dormant within the biological human
body in time." According to Dr. José Argüelles, PhD.:"The simple and easiest way to reprogram your daily awareness of the actual nature of time is to follow the 13 Moon Calendar."
and your world will follow!
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