Temporal Numerology

or Arithmology, if etymology’s your thing.

Numerology refers to occult, supernatural, or mystical association between numbers and events: birthdays, dates of deaths, volcanic eruptions and so on. It can be useful, however, in linking numbers to common uses, and in so doing, generate a common meaning.

24-7-365 is one example, drawn from the 24-hour day, the 7-day week, and the 365-day year. We don’t have an idiom for the month, as it isn’t so definitive: the lunar month has 29 or 30 days, the Gregorian calendar month has 28 to 31 days. theAbysmal Calendar has such a variety of measures that it’s unclear how any of this might be meaningful.

That’s not to dissuade one from trying.

Raccoon’s New Year

Today marks yet another of theAbysmal Calendar’s interlocking New Years.

This past year I’ve been developing a novel calendar system, which divides the year into 363 + 2 days. The 363 days are divided into 11 months of 33 days each. Each month is made up of three weeks of 11 days. There are also three terms of 121 days.

The first day of the year is today, Jun 22 (21 in a leap year).

 

Northern Hemisphere