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Year 8-XIV Lunation 4

a third of the year’s moons have cycled past

Year 8-XIV Lunation 2

Chinese New Year

 

Have an Abysmal New Year

the 260-Week Countdown to 21 12 2012

Greetings cousins. This New Year, Dec 21st 2007, marks the official countdown to theAbysmal+1 Calendar’s launch on 21 12 2012.

The next 5 Years
= 20 Quarters
= 65 Months
= 62 Lunations
= 260 Weeks
= 1825 Days + 2 Leap Year Days

Although theAbysmal+1 Calendar has many components, not any one person need necessarily follow all of them. The most common would likely continue as the 7-day market week, the 28-day month. The cycles of 13 days and XX, the glyphs which have sub-cycles of IV and V, also create daily progressions of days that one might use in their scheduling of the Year.

Some notes on the functionality of theAbysmal+1 Calendar:

The last day of one year bears the number & glyphs (13-XX) which become assigned to the following year, which for this year falls on 8-XIV.

Herein lies the notion that the New Year germinates from a seed from the Old Year. This gives the last Friday of the Year stands for the entire year to come. This might prove the best time to consider one’s plans for the Year to come.

New Year’s Day, which falls on 9-XV, stands in the space in between.

First Calendar Day of the Year, Saturday, Day 0, Month 0

Year 8-XIV

This assignment to the years increases by 1 and V from year-to-year. If we consider the Gregorian Calendar Year in comparison to the 13-XX, they do align somewhat. The Abysmal+1 Calendar begins with Dec 21st, such that 10 days fall on one Gregorian Calendar Year, and the next 355 on another. This Abysmal+1 Year 8-XIV loosely corresponds with the year 2008. Note the 8s in common. And so this continues until Zero Year.

8-XIV 2008
9-XIX 2009
10-IV 2010
11-IX 2011
12-XIV 2012
13-XIX 2013 - Year 0
1-IV Year 1
2-IX Year 2
3-XIV Year 3
4-XIX Year 4

Year 0 13-XIX begins on
Saturday Day 0 Month 0 2-I

Year 1 1-IV begins with the first number & glyph of the 52-year cycle (1-13 by IV, IX, XIV, XIX)

Year 2 2-IX begins on
Saturday Day 0 Month 0 3-XI
New Moon
this marks the beginning of associating lunations with years over longer peroids

Year 12 12-XIX begins on
Saturday Day 0 Month 0 1-I
the first day of the 13-XX calendar

~Year 17,640 12-IV begins on
Saturday Day 0 Month 0 1-VI
The Sun enters Aries

The Countdown to the Countdown Begins

to Dec 21st, 2012

4 Weeks until the New Year - 16 Days until Lunation 0 begins our countdown to 2012 and the implementation of this here Calendar worldwide.

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Comparing Lunar Calendars

How many spins have their been?

Chinese Calendar from Julian Date 758 325
Wednesday March 8 2637 BCE (Julian Proleptic Calendar)

Hebrew Calendar from Julian Date 347 997
Monday October 7 3761 BCE (Julian Proleptic Calendar)

Islamic Calendar from Julian Date 1 948 436
Tuesday July 16, 622 CE (Gregorian Calendar)

235 Lunations :19 Years (Metonic Cycle)

Hebrew - Solilunar
5755 years - 3761 BCE to 2014 CE

5755/19 = ~303 Metonic Cycles
235 x 303 = ~71 180 Lunations

Chinese - Solilunar
2651 years - 2637 BCE to 2014 CE

2651/19 = ~140 Metonic Cycles
235 x 140 = ~32 788 Lunations

Islamic - Solilunar
582 years - 622 CE to 2014 CE

582/19 = ~31 Metonic Cycles
235 x 31 = `7 198 Lunations

Lunar Cycles as measured in theAbysmal Calendar will count from Day 0 Year 1 (equivalent to December 22nd 2014), beginning with Lunation 0.

Lunations will be counted proleptically using the Islamic, Chinese and Hebrew Calendars as means of establishing the most reliable early records of the phases of the moon.

Cycle of the Moon

the weird wobbles of Luna

Metonic Cycles - ancient revelations of interest

Calendar Reform: observation of Metonic Cycle.

from: Occidental Mythology by Joseph Campbell
quoting: Prof. Gilbert Murray’s Greek Epic

In the Classical period the effort to coordinate the lunar and solar calendars culminated in the astronomer Meton’s Grand Cycle of Nineteen Years, according to which (to quote Murray’s statement):

“On the last day of the nineteenth year, which was also by Greek reckoning the first of the twentieth, the New Moon would coincide with the New Sun of the Winter Solstice; this was called the ‘Meeting of Sun and Moon’ - a thing which had not happened for nineteen full years before and would not happen again for another nineteen.”

Joseph Campbell Continues:

“…the fundamental idea of all thee pagan religious disciplines, both of the Orient and of the Occident, during the period of which we are referring (first millennium B.C), was that the inward turning of the mind (symbolized by the sunset) should culminate in a realization of an identity in esse of the individual (microcosm) and the universe (macrocosm), which, when achieved, would bring together in one order of act and realization the principles of eternity and time, sun and moon, male and female, Hermes and Aphrodite (Hermaphroditus), and the two serpents of the caduceus.”

“The image of the “Meeting of Sun and Moon’ is everywhere symbolic of this instant, and the only unsovled questions in relation to its universality are: a) how far back it goes, b) where it first arose, and c) whether from the start it was read both psychologically and cosmologically.”

“The symbolism was known to Europe, China and Japan, the Aztecs and Navaho…”

The Meton Cycle of 6, 940 days = 235 lunations = 19 years

Note: the New Moon falls on (as per USNO)

December 20 2006 - Solstice Dec 22
December 22 2014 - Solstice Dec 21
December 23 2022 - data unavailable

Proposal: to use December 22nd 2014 as the start date for a new Metonic Cycle. A new name might also be of benefit.

– Synaptic Date (d/m/y/20) - Monday 1.9(7).(0)
– chronological — 2303 days until implementation

Moon Periodicity

Faces of the Moon
See also: earthquakes and the moon, new corn moon, cycles of the moon.

In attempting to measure the Cycles of the Phases of the Moon, several longer scales of measure have been discovered. Curiously, the larger the span of time, the more accurate the measure, as if approaching a limit.

Metonic Cycle:
235 Lunations = 19 years = 6, 940 days

Calliptic Cycle:
940 lunations = 76 years = 27, 259 days

Hipparchic Cycle:
3, 760 lunations -1  day = 304 years -1 day = 111, 035 days

The Chinese Calendar inserts a 13th lunar month to account for the difference between the lunar year and the solar year, about 11 days.

7 leap months in 19 years
144 leap months in 391 years

Earthquakes and the Moon

Tremors and Lunacy - together at last!

Earthquakes are most likely to occur when the Moon crosses the Celestial Equator (the projection of Earth’s equator into space as a basis for a system of reference). They are most likely to occur in the Northern Hemisphere when the Moon rides high, and in the Southern Hemisphere when the Moon rides low (presumably from a Northern Hemispheric perspective).

For the remainder of Synaptic Year -7, or Gregorian 2006 CE, the times of risk are as follows:

Globally- Moon at Celestial Equator
Aug 26
Sep 8
Sep 22
Oct 5
Oct 19
Nov 2
Nov 29
Dec 13

Northern Hemisphere - Moon rides high
Sep 15-19
Oct 12 - 16
Nov 9 - 13
Dec 6 - 10

Southern Hemisphere - Moon rides low
Sep 2 - 6
Sep 30 - Oct 3
Oct 27 - 31
Nov 23 - 27
Dec 20 - 24