A few days ago I made a decision to try and adjust my life to the lunar calendar as much as possible.
One of my biggest issues living in a city is how everything feels detached from nature which in a way makes it detached from reality.
I recently heard about the 13 month international fixed calendar and heard some reasoning for why it was proposed which sent me on a deep dive into the Gregorian calendar and some other cases against it.
Similar to the standard 440 hz vs. 432 tuning theory that says that our body naturally responds to music tuned in 432 in a more harmonious way, there are people who believe the Gregorian system has throw us out of balance.
On the surface the idea might sound ridiculous but as someone who has explored a lot of theories and ideas about the subconscious mind and the nature of reality, I know just how massive of an impact subtle changes can have on an individual so when you imagine that at a societal scale,
While I personally don’t feel much of a difference from 432 hz tuning and I have no idea if the change to 440 hz contributed to the events that led to world war 1 as some people claim, I do find such things worth considering at least casually and I think they should be studied in depth by multiple people.
The winter influences of the Gregorian calendar feel much more obvious to me.
You mean to tell me the month with “Sept” is the month month and the month with “octo” is the 10th month?
We have two months dedicated to Roman Emperors?
Also I find it very strange that while the average length of a woman’s menstrual cycle is 29.3 (the mean is 29.6!) days and we have 29.5 calendar system there since the beginning of society, we chose the 28-31 day calendar.
Perhaps if we changed back to a lunar system we’d find more people naturally aligning to the calendar? Perhaps we’d fall into more regular rhythms that made more sense. We’d be able to predict our moods and our energy spikes and troughs and account for so much that we now consider random?
Look at the damn market cycles! They follow the lunar cycles damn consistently. Either most large investors are occultists and Wilkins (possible! I’m sure a few are but even so it’s doubtful so many would invest based on lunar cycles rather than ) or something else is going on.
I don’t know what any of this really means but I know that since I was a kid I always found the calendar strange. 30 days past September, April, June and November…. Oh yeah? With a regular predictable system sitting right there we go with one that is anything but intuitive. That MUST have a subtle impact on our psyche.
For me it’s a sense that things happen randomly and that patterns are all just confirmation bias and placebo affect when I know that’s not the case for many things. It’s a sense that an Empire is in control of this world and that we are powerless.
Sure you could say these feelings were planted by many things other than the calendar and that’s definitely true but an strange and unintuitive calendar creates a confirmation bias for an irregular and unintuitive world that doesn’t make sense.
I doubt this feeling is noticeable in an obvious way for any individual but the microscopic, hardly noticeable differences in mood that we can hardly recognize let alone measure…those all add up and compound for each individual and then for an entire society.
I’m not proposing we change the world calendar overnight or start telling our friend we will start only making plans based on the lunar calendar and November no longer carries any meaning to us.
But personally I’m starting to pay attention to lunar cycles as much as I would the Gregorian months. I want to know when it’s a new moon and a full moon and what each step of the cycle means to traditional cultures. I want to learn about the lunar months in Japanese and Chinese and Native American and at some point Indian and other traditions.
I’m not going to study it intensively but every new lunar month I will learn what different cultures say about that month and pay more attention to whether or not my behavior matches with the lunar cycles.
Maybe I’ll share more about this in the next post.
I can already feel how this is making pay more attention to seasonal changes and weather patterns. The moon is always up there in the sky so if you feel a lack of nature and no natural rhythm in your life, that’s a good place to start
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