Calendar Reform: embracing the Abyss
Using the ratio of daylight to night, the following was constructed
(from outside inwards)
365 days
- represented by circles as dark as the night is long
- the bottom represents the Winter Solstice, the top the Summer Solstice
- as the circle symmetrical, it can be followed either clockwise or counter-clockwise.
see here for Gregorian Calendar dates mapped to this arrangement of 13 months.
64 hexagrams
- of the I-Ching
- Hexagram 1 Ch’ien: the Creative at the top
- Hexagram 2 Ku’un: the Receptive at the bottom
13 months
- 28 days or 4 weeks of 7 days
- Winter Solstice as the abysmal day
- symmetrical either clockwise or counterclockwise
8 Trigrams - according to King Wan
- the Abysmal, Water, at the bottom
- inner world arrangement
8 Trigrams – according to Fu-Hsi
- reflects the arrangement of the 64 hexagrams
- primal arrangement
5 Elements
- Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water
For more on the I-Ching and Time, see also:
I-Ching & Celestial Cycles
I-Ching Mandala
Trigrams and metrical language
Basic Binary Patterns
