Tag: Midquarter

Midquarter Year 9

or maybe Year 10, depending on your New Year*.

concentric rings - at centre, a circle divided into four quarters that swirl clockwise. From bottom of the circle the colours are blue, green, yellow, red. The first ring around this is made of 16 bigrams - one line on top of the other in each of the combination of the four colours. The circle around this are the 64 trigrams of three lines. At the outside are the 256 quadrigrams. The outermost ring is made up of 365 circles, each of which is shaded a unique hue.Clockwise from bottom, they progress from blue through blue-green, green at left, then green-yellow, yellow at top, then orange, red at right, purple, and back to blue. This ring is divided by 8 spokes.
the Prismatic Wheel of the Year

Aug 6 on the Gregorian Calendar marks the midquarter day that falls (more or less) midway between the Solstice and the Equinox. It also falls on the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, which at this point in history, is more cogent than ever.

In the illustration above, this midquarter day occurs at the top right, among the orange days, midway between the yellow of the Solstice and the red of the Equinox. In terms of the lined diagrams, from top to bottom, it is represented by the Green-Red bigram, Red-Green-Red trigram, and Red-Red-Green-Red quadrigram.

While theAbysmal Calendar primarily celebrates holidays that mark natural time, i.e. New and Full Moons, Solstices and Equinoxes, and Equalnights, in addition to all the world’s New Years, midquarter days are a structural part of the calendar that lend themselves to holidays.

The more the merrier, no?

  • theAbysmal Lunar New Year falls on the New Moon prior to the Northern Solstice, theAbysmal Solar New Year falls on Dec 21 at the Southern Solstice.