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theAbysmal Moon 105

Moon 105 of Era 2 or Moon 6,537 of the Epoch.

A number of adjustments to theAbysmal Calendar this past year.

theAbysmal Lunar Month begins at the New Moon according to EST (my local time zone, UCT – 5), so these dates might be off by a day depending on where in the World you live.

Changes to theAbysmal Calendar

Some updates from the past year and earlier.

Epoch, Era

see: theAbysmal Lunar Calendars

The Epoch refers to the starting date of a calendar. In this case, I’ve chosen the year 1492 CE as the beginning of settler-colonial history in the Americas. Eras begin at the New Moon prior to Northern Solstice. Eras are 260 years long.

  • theAbysmal Epoch & Era 0 began May 26 1492 (Julian) or Jun 4 (Gregorian)
  • Era 1 began May 31 1752 (Julian) or Jun 11 (Gregorian)
  • Era 2 began Jun 19 2012 (Gregorian)

New Year Day, Leap Day, Era Day

see: theAbysmal Calendar & Exceptional Days

Previously, New Year Day fell on Dec 21 and Leap Day on Dec 20. While Dec 21 remains the principal New Year Day, it isn’t the only one, and the Leap Day was moved.

  • New Year for odd-numbered calendars on Jun 22
  • New Year for even-numbered calendars on Dec 22
  • Leap Day moved from Dec 20 to Jun 21 (in a year with Feb 29)
  • Era Day replaces the final Leap Day of an Era (Jun 21 2012)

Odd-numbered calendars divide the year into 365, 363, and 361 days. Even-numbered divide the year into 364, 362, and 360 days.

260-Day Calendar

See: 260-day calendar.

260-day calendar arranged in 20 rows and 13 columns. The header for the rows are labelled by roman numerals one to twenty and named in the following sequence: turtle, wind, night, web, sperpent, death, deer, rabbit, moon, coyote, raccoon, mushroom, tobacco, bear, goshawk, fisher, earthquake, mirror, storm, sun. The rows are coloured green, blue, red, yellow from top to bottom. The days are numbered from top left to bottom right with the numbers 1 to 13.

Glyph names changed since originally developed:

  • X from dog to Coyote
  • XII from maize to Mushroom
  • XIII from reed to Tobacco
  • XVII from earth to Earthquake
  • XX from sunflower to Sun

256-Day Calendar

see: 256-day calendar

This calendar is built on the foundation of the Cardinal Directions, and has spawned a four-fold calendar system that lends itself to scaling up and down measures of time from seconds to aeons.

A diamond-oriented square containing multiple coloured squares of different sizes. The outer perimeter is four squares per side, which contains a square with four squares per side and so on. The colours alternate, but the theme is blue is down, red right, yellow top, and green left.

I Ching provides a structure by which to organize the fourfold calendar.

concentric circles - at centre, a circle divided into four quarters with an "X". From bottom moving clockwise, the colours are blue, green, yellow, red. The first circle 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.

At centre, the four directions: blue North, green East, yellow South, red West. The circles are made out of two-line, three-line, and four-line figures, or 16 bigrams, 64 trigrams, and 256 quadrigrams.