Abysmal Days, Weeks and Months

reform calendar symmetry and abysmal holiday reckoning

theAbymal Calendar reform thingy

13 month year - months 6, (1, 4, 8, 11)
365 day year - new year’s day
4 quarter year - week 6 (1, 4, 8, 11)

4 +1 Abysmal Days

theAbysmal Calendar’s 365 Calendar Days mark 4+1 Days as particularly Abysmal, as denoted here

4+1 Abysmal Days
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The Winter Solstice marks the bottom Day of the 4+1

month 8 day 3 Wednesday
month 11 day 10 Wednesday
new year’s day
month 1 day 17 Wednesday
month 4 day 24 Wednesday

These four Wednesdays divide the Calendar year into four quarters of 90 Weekdays, provided the count does not include these 4 Wednesdays. They also mark the 4 Seasons of the Year, according to Daylight, and may further subdivide the 4 Quarters of the Year into Eighths.

month 11 day 10 falls on november 5th on the Gregorian Calendar.
month 1 day 17 falls on february 5th.
These denote the boundaries of the darkest part of the Year, in terms of daylight hours, at its darkest at the Winter Solstice.

month 1 day 17 and month 4 day 24 (may 7th) denote the period when the amount of daylight increases at an accelerating pace, at its highest rate of change at the Vernal Equinox.

month 4 day 24 and month 8 day 3 (aug 6th) bound the brightest days of the Year, at its brightest at the Summer Solstice.

month 8 day 3 to month 11 day 10 mark the period when the amount of daylight decreases at an accelerated pace, at its highest rate of change at the Autumnal Equinox.

4 Quarters of 13 Weeks

The 364 Weekdays of theAbysmal Calendar divide easily into 4 Quarters of 91 Days each, as denoted by the Calendar’s observaces for the 4 Cardinal Points of the Year.

also:

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 … +13 = 91

4 Quarters of theAbysmal Calendar Year
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Each Quarter of 13 Weeks reflects the number of months in theAbysmal Year. How could one resist comparing?

The 4 Quarters, divided into 13 Weeks, as per daylight (at 49 degrees Lat), appear like so:

1st Quarter
Winter Solstice to Vernal Equinox

2nd Quarter
Vernal Equinox to Summer Solstice

3rd Quarter
Summer Solstice to Autumnal Equinox

4th Quarter
Autumnal Equinox to Winter Solstice

the 1st and 4th Quarters reflect each other as do the 2nd and 3rd Quarters, albeit the daylight hours diminish through the 3rd and 4th Quarters and develop through the 1st and 2nd Quarters.

4+1 of 13 Months

see the following for the full tour, below, a sketch of the background.
taurus-leo-eagle-aquarius
13 months, constellations…
months constellations and the zodiac

In the book of Ezekiel and Revelations in the Bible, the authors describe 4 cherubim, each with four faces, those of a Bull, a Lion, an Eagle and a Man, which bore two Wheels, one which remained fixed, the other which rose up and down.

the symbols resonate with the four signs of the western zodiac: Taurus, Leo, the 13th zodiacal constellation of Ophiuchus represented by the Eagle, and Aquarius. The remaining Month gains distinctions as Libra, the only symbol of the Zodiac (meaning circle of animals) that does not represent an a living being. The Summer Solstice occurs during Month 6, represented by Libra, thus stands opposite theAbysmal Day at the Winter Solstice, giving it symmetry across the Year, and by an order of magnitude.

the 13 zodiacal symbols mapped over the 13 Months of theAbymal Calendar, beginning with Aries and Month 0 at the Winter Solstice.

Interestingliest, the months of the Bull, Lion, Eagle and the Man all contain one of the 4 Abysmal Wednesdays.

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Such symmetry of form and imagery may be imposed upon the 13 Weeks of each Quarter, as divided above.

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This does not represent a recommendation of using these symbols and this imagery to name the Weeks and Months of the Year. Such remains always up to the individual Calendar user. This exercise remains in finding resonance with existing time systems in unravelling the conundrum of time left to us from our pre-historic predecessors.

Galactic Connections

Aztec, Aries to Pisces, Peter Paul Rubens, Benjamin Franklin, Jean Limburg
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from Ammawell’s fine art collection:

The Milky Way, by Peter Paul Rubens

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from Mexico Lore

The face on the headdress belongs to the Star Dragon, which represents the Milky Way.

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from the American Library of Congress

Benjamin Franklin’s chart of the zodiac mapped to the body

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from Faksimile Verlag Luzern

The Anatomy of Man by Jean Limburg

Months, Constellations and the Zodiac

Correlating Zodiacal Symbols according to symmetrical elegance.
365-Day Calendar

Using the imagery and symbolism from the books of Ezekiel & Revelation, there is a resonance with the Synaptic Reform 365-Day and 360-Day Calendars. The passages in question, are most pithy here:

“I saw a windstorm coming out of the north-an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal, and in the fire was what looked like 4 living creatures. In appearance their form was that of a man, but each of them had 4 faces and 4 wings”

” they did not turn as they moved.”

“Their faces looked like this: Each of the four had the face of a man, and on the right side each had the face of a lion, and on the left the face of an ox; each also had the face of an eagle.”

The important bits to note: 4 beings, man, lion, ox, eagle.

Here are the symbols for the signs of the Babylonian Zodiac, for both the 12 and 13 signs (where Ophiucus is symbolized by the Eagle, and represented with an X) arranged, as per convention, with the Northern Winter Solstice at the bottom.

Projecting this one step further, to overlay the 13 zodiacal signs on the 13 Reform months, with the 8-spoked wheel indicating the Solstices, Equinoxes and Midway Days, we get the following.

The circled months contain the midway days. Curiously, they fall in the months assigned to Taurus, Leo, Ophiuchus and Aquarius. In the book of Ezekiel the faces of an ox, lion, eagle and man.

Libra has the distinction of being the only symbol that is not a living creature. Distinctive because zodiac means circle of animals. This puts Libra in the centre with six symbols to each side, truly a balanced fulcrum then.

This, at least in terms of a working symbol-system may suit the designations of the 13 months - however, there’s more than one way to wrangle the Ecliptic.

Previous Entries:
13 months, constellations and the zodiac
Ophiuchus, the 13th sign of the Zodiac
Taurus - Leo - Eagle - Aquarius

Biblical Source:
Ezekiel’s Wheel
Revelation 12 - 22

Image of Ezekiel’s Temple

360-Day Calendar

The Constellations and the 360-Day Calendar

Calendar Reform: the Astronomical Constellations and annual timekeeping

Reform Calendar: 360-Day Calendar date correlations.

The 360-day calendar, as described in this summary of the Synaptic Calendar Reform Project, shifts by 1 day every 72 years, such that the current first day of the astronomical cycle coincides with the Sun entering the astronomical boundaries for the constellation Aries - which was set in the 1970s as April 19th.

Thus, for the 360-day calendar, after 72-years have elapsed (the presumption is that the cycle of 72-years began in 1941), such that the first day of the calendar becomes April 20 until 2085, when it shifts to April 21, and so forth.

Part of this rationale is that the date differs between Hindu calendars and the Astronomical date, although they both measure the Sun and planets against the observable constellations, as opposed to the Astrological.

The dates for the 360-day calendar’s constellations are as follows, beginning in April 2013. (Note that the Winter Solstice falls in Sagittarius and the Summer Solstice in Gemini, which would necessitate the change of the names of the Globe’s Tropics).

Constellation	Begins	Ends	Duration
Aries	Apr 20	May 14	25 days
Taurus	May 15	Jun 20	37 days
Gemini	Jun 21	Jul 21	31 days
Cancer	Jul 22	Aug 10	20 days
Leo	Aug 11	Sep 16	37 days
Virgo	Sep 17	Oct 31	45 days
Libra	Nov 1	Nov 23	23 days
Scorpio	Nov 24	Nov 30	7 days
Ophiuchus (Eagle)	Dec 1	Dec 18	18 days
Sagittarius	Dec 19	Jan 19	32 days
Capricorn	Jan 20	Feb 16	28 days
Aquarius	Feb 17	Mar 12	24 days
Pisces	Mar 13	Apr 14	33 days
Intercalary days	Apr 15	Apr 19	5 days

Reform Calendar: 360-days divided

Calendar Reform: 360-days to align the sky without our reckoning of time.

Summary of the Synaptic Calendar project.

360 can be divided in so many ways:

360 = 2 x 2 x 2 x 3 x 3 x 5
2 x 180
4 x 90
8 x 45

6 x 60
12 x 30
24 x 15

9 x 40

5 x 72
10 x 36
20 x 18
40 x 9

However, the division in the diagram below, based on 360-days with April 20th as the first day (April 15 - 19 are absent from the diagram) are as follows, from the outside inward:

* the outermost divisions correspond to the 13 constellations as the passes through the astronomical boundaries (which differ from astrological and other calendrical systems).
*the circle of 360-days (April 20th as the first day of the year, when the Sun enters Aries).
*the circle of 72 x 5-day periods, which the Mesopotamians used

* 18 x 20-day periods or 18 x (4 x 5-days), which the Mayans observe with the Haab and Long Count
* 12 x 30-day periods of 12 x (6 x 5-days), although, in the Coptic and Egyptians, observe 12 x (3 x 10-days)
* the next three are 6 x, 5 x, 4 x - they serve as cogs for numberology more than anything, although, each calendar has a means of dividing itself into quarters.

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Measuring the year with the Constellations.

Calendar Reform: fixed and drifting calendars.

So the theory goes that with a fixed 365-day calendar (13 month) and a floating 360 (+5 days) calendar that the Precession of the Equinoxes can be measured. If the first day of the 360 Calendar coincides with the day defining the beginning of the period where the Sun passes through the backdrop of the astronomical constellation of Aries,   then after a full Precession, it will return to its point of origin.

Below, two images depicting measures of the year.
The first is the 13-Month Synaptic Calendar, beginning on the Winter Solstice.
The second is a 12-Month model (12 months of 30 days + 5 days) beginning with April 19th.

Compare the Synaptic Calendar with the Gregorian, new year January 1st.

Compare the 360 + 5 calendar to the days attributed to each astronomical constellation

Provided that the 360 + 5 day calendar begins at the same time as Aries, then it can change by 1 degree, equivalent to 1 day (on the 360 count) per 72 years.
(see Mesopotamian Numerology).
With the intention to create a means of synchronising the annual measure of the calendar with the constellations observable in the sky, in such a way as to indicate the relative progression of the Precession.

The 365-day calendar (13 moon model in this case) is fixed, such that the New remains on the Winter Solstice.
The 360-day calendar drifts with the constellations, by 1 day or 1 degree every 72 years.
The 260-day calendar synchronizes the two with the gestation period
The Lunar Calendar is paired with the Solar calendar for numerical dates.

Mayan calendrical numerology

Every 25, 838 - 25, 920 or 26, 000 years, the 365-day and the 360-day, thus the constellations, will be realigned - approximately 17, 640 years from now.

2 visions of Ophiuchus

Astrological and Astronomical

Tropics of the New Era

Cancer and Capricorn no longer

As of the implementation of the Synaptic Calendar, and with as much hoity as toity, the two Tropics, heretofore known as the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, shall be abandoned.

The new Tropics are named the Tropic of Gemini and the Tropic of Sagittarius.

The Tropics were named after the Constellation through which the Sun passed directly overhead on either Solstice. Due to the Precession of the equinoxes, the constellations have shifted.

This would serve as another calibrating tool with respect to the constellations and the calendar.

Constellation in the Abysmal Sea

Cetus.

Full-scales of Cetus.

see also
13 Months, 13 constellations, Rebalancing Libra & the elements.
Calendars and Constellations

More Mayan Calendrics

13 Mayan Constellations

See also Constellations about Ophiuchus as the 13th sign of the Zodiac