Table 3: The phases of the moon
The dates given in this
so-called KNIN -table below make for the signal days of the above
mentioned revision to the ancient lunar roman calendar.
K: Kalends, the day of the
new moon
N: Nones the day of the
first (and last ) quarter
I: Ides the day of full
moon.
This calendar-naming of the
lunar reality originally did not have such a neat division in lunar
'weeks' marked by signal days of Kalends, Ides and Nones , as given in this
astronomical table. The second quarter nones were added by this
revision to match with the weekorder we know from the gregorian
calendar and to be in accord with the actual astronomical data of the
lunar phases. The original naming of this calendar as 'fasti' was concerned with making
days where it was not 'fas' or 'nefasti ' to conduct as said legal and
commercial business. They were the early roman precursor of our present
sundays when usually we do not have office hours or commercial
businesses opened (it is still under legal control). Therefore setting
these moonphases on ones calendar can be done for the sake of having an
alternative for the christian sundays that is more loyal to the original
(uncorrupted scientific and natural) roman concept of social - and
religious - order.
Japanese print called
the Moonsick Monk or the Stupid Starings at the Moon.
Kitagawa Oetamaro woodcarving 1798
As said: originally the roman order was far more
complex than that. The days that were legal were not the same as the
days suggested by the severely rationalized revision below. Because of
its arbitrariness in the political/religious manipulation of
unscientific intercalation the roman empire fell of its original lunar order with the julian
reform 45 B.C. which fixed the lunar order to the solar year: Ides and
Nones meant no longer any loyalty to the lunar month. They had no other
scientific ground in astronomical observation any longer than some
likeness of rhythm and the factual solar year. In the old as well as
later days of Rome the politicians were the priests of order and
priests became emperors. The separation between religion and politics is in fact
an illusory one when one is bent to setting a calendar or clock to 'the
order of God' that in fact then consists of discrete natural rhythms
that defy a uniform-reductionist system as we had in the 20th century.
Modern politics of time make as such just another religion of
reductionist legal morality setting the time (a television-religion).
Not naming the timesystem a reality of respecting God (and His natural
time) does not make people respect the time purely political as if that
would be the standard of rationality. In fact it makes a psychology of
it that is in constant doubt about the reference which with some
derange seriously in private selfmade religions recognized as forms of
neurosis and worse. (Psychoanalysis speaks of modern compulsory
neuroses as a " private religion"). It is interesting to wonder about what actually heresy would
be in
setting the time. One could speculate that any division of time
deviating from natural
points
of
measurement
(like these moonphases) and natural numbers (like having at least and at
most 12 lunar months in a solar year) can be called heresies of gauging
and division. At the other hand we are inspired to respect each odd
setting of the clock and calendar as a way of respecting God, thus
leading to a more enlightened new duality of timerespect (see a new
duality at The Order of time: Politics )
Therefore The Order of Time
here proposes the earlier mentioned full Calendar of Order that offers these natural numbers
(in operations on the number of twelve fixed on astronomical data) and
their division relative to a possibly heretic 'gregorian division' of
(in fact) commercial weeks on the gregorian calendar (which unless
corrected to its present 'centurion'-rule still deviates 1day in a
2.500 year period).
One
of the regular appearances of the harvest-celebrations
in Japan are the images of the hare with its pounder in the moon.
The old Idea
of lunar irregular
weeks on
lunar signal days ( a lunar month is about 29.5 days long) was in fact
abolished by the same early roman rule which protected the christians
against further roman and pagan persecution: the constantinian reform
of the calendar in the fourth century (325) A.D. abolished definitely
the old roman - to its lunar order - perverted system and replaced it
with the commercial market rhythm of 7 days (formerly 8 and also
10-days) in succession making time-management and calendars more of a
mystical experience on the number of seven than a proper respect of any
natural order (in monasteries still the old 'reformed'fasti-order from
before Constantine was respected throughout the entire Middle Ages
though). The linear concept of time took it over from the cyclic at
that time and in fact we have ever since a balance of religious and
commercial respect on unnatural weeks through weekdays of working and
weekends of praying and ritual ceremony. To the spiritual interest of
individual and collective well-being though nor formalized rituals of
religion nor commercial activity on itself is the purpose. What
commerce or religion can unify the world? That duality should not be
considered necessary any longer. Therefore we offer here, contrasting
the religious/commercial timeconsciousness of unnatural weeks, the
authentic classical authority of the natural division of the moon by
its phases which so clearly sets the timeconsciousness relative to the
basic Order of the Sun known from the reformed Romans from 45 B.C -
A.D.321 and the old vedic culture as we know it from the scriptures.
A.D. 2012 /
2765
A.U.C.
all times are
universal time UTC (Greenwich Worldtime corrected)
A.D. 2013 / 2766
A.U.C.
all times are
universal time UTC (Greenwich Worldtime corrected)
(Source: Naval Observatory)
Lunations
of
previous
years
Lunation:
the
period
of
a
synodic
revolution
of
the
moon,
or the time from one New Moon to the next, varying in length at
different times from about
29-1/4 to 29-5/6 days. The average length is 29 days, 12 hours, 44
minutes and 2.9 seconds.
Lunation number: the Brown Lunation Number, which defines lunation 1 as
beginning at
the first new moon of 1923 (this occurred at approximately 02:41 UTC,
January 17, 1923).
The old roman calendar of before the Julian reform started at the new
moon of March.
The new roman calendar of the Julian reform started 45 BC at the first
of January.
