NEW AGE CALENDAR - 5 day week

The math is fairly simple, because the number of days in a year, 365, is divisable by 5, which gives 73 five-day weeks distributed among the 4 seasons. Because Earth's orbit of the Sun is eliptical and planets move faster when closest and slower when farthest away, Winter is the shortest season with 89 days. Therefore, two months have 30 days and one has only 29 - and it might as well be February. Spring and Summer move farthest and slowest, so they both have 93 days. Therefore, June and September can each have 33 days and the rest 30; or each Spring and Summer month could have 31 days. It doesn't matter as long as the total is 93. I put 3 days at the end of June and September to accomodate the traditional celebrations of Summer Solstice and Autumn Equinox. (Winter and Spring have no "extra" days so celebration of Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox would take place during the week, perhaps the whole week. In a more relaxed society, why not? Autumn, on its way to Winter, has 90 days, so each month has 30. The names of days, weeks and months are actually irrelevant because they have no real connection to the mathamatics, so people can call them whatever they want. There are already many, many lunar calendars and most of them are accurate, so I see no need to enter another one here; but, obviously, people are free to draw in the phases of the Moon, or anything else, onto a copy of this or any other calendar. You may have noticed there is no reference to Leap Year. In fact, it's a delusion, caused when time is calculated by clocks, which after 4 years seem to have lost a day because a solar day is slightly longer than 24 hours. But if time is measured by the Sun alone, there's no problem. Isn't it odd that no one has invented a commercial clock that keeps more accurate solar time? A cesium atomic clock does so, but I suppose that would be too expensive to mass market, or - is there something else going on? Unless we do all the basic measurements ourselves, how do we know which day is solstice and which day is equinox? We could be off by several days and not know it, and the mass of busy modern citizens don't even think about it. The ancient Britons broke their backs to construct their own great calendar at Stonehenge because they needed to know exactly when each season begins to decide when to plant, nurture and harvest crops, and when the dead time of the year ends at Winter Solstice, giving them hope for survival in a new and more bountiful year. But today, all the professional scientists dominate everything because they work for powerful corporations or federal agencies, or for universities that get their funding from those same corporations or federal agencies. So, how do we know? Maybe people could build their own mini-stonehenges, or woodhenges. In fact they did, all over Europe and America, long before the Roman and Christian conquests that destroyed or suppressed the ancient knowledge. Since 5 and 6 both divide equally into 30, an alternative to this calendar could consist of 6-day weeks, everything else staying as is. That calendar is next in the Contents.

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