While everyone’s busy celebrating a Roman paperwork holiday on January 1st, I can’t help but notice how disconnected it is from nature itself. Long before Caesars and calendars, time was tracked by the Moon and the Sun, 13 lunar cycles, not 12 arbitrary months. That’s where the turtle comes in. Many Indigenous traditions recognize the 13 scutes on a turtle’s shell as a living calendar, each one representing a full moon in a solar year. The real reset happens at the Spring Equinox, when day and night balance and life actually begins again, making March the true first month. Winter isn’t a beginning, it’s a pause, a time we rest and get ready for a reset at the Spring Equinox, th true New Year, but sure… pop the champagne while the Earth is still asleep 🐢🌕🌺
Ms_Riley_Guprz on
The real year begins on the winter solstice
anon_lurk on
This guy wants me to pay rent one more time in the year.
Brilliant-Resource14 on
A lunar cycle is actually ~29.53 days. A solar year is ~365.2422 days long.
365.2422/29.53**≈**12.3685
There should not be 13 months in a year if going based on lunar cycles.
Alan-TheDetroyer on
I’m not wearing a 30lb turtle as a wrist watch so gybao
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While everyone’s busy celebrating a Roman paperwork holiday on January 1st, I can’t help but notice how disconnected it is from nature itself. Long before Caesars and calendars, time was tracked by the Moon and the Sun, 13 lunar cycles, not 12 arbitrary months. That’s where the turtle comes in. Many Indigenous traditions recognize the 13 scutes on a turtle’s shell as a living calendar, each one representing a full moon in a solar year. The real reset happens at the Spring Equinox, when day and night balance and life actually begins again, making March the true first month. Winter isn’t a beginning, it’s a pause, a time we rest and get ready for a reset at the Spring Equinox, th true New Year, but sure… pop the champagne while the Earth is still asleep 🐢🌕🌺
The real year begins on the winter solstice
This guy wants me to pay rent one more time in the year.
A lunar cycle is actually ~29.53 days. A solar year is ~365.2422 days long.
365.2422/29.53**≈**12.3685
There should not be 13 months in a year if going based on lunar cycles.
I’m not wearing a 30lb turtle as a wrist watch so gybao