Calendar

FEATURED SEASON

drum roll. . .

spring is sprung-hi-hat crash!

Ku are all about the seasons; both the natural and the calendrical. Seasonal changes are at the heart of ku. Their cyclical variety - forever returning. The seasons remind us that we are embedded, seamlessly, in the miracle of existence.

season

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Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry: March

March is the third month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is one of seven months that are 31 days long. In the Northern Hemisphere, the meteorological beginning of spring occurs on the first day of March. The March equinox on the 20th or 21st marks the astronomical beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere and the beginning of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere, where September is the seasonal equivalent of the Northern Hemisphere's March.

March-

in parts of the world

not September!

sound of water: moon data

Moon Phase Calculator

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Week-day names

History of calendars

Chinese New Year Calendar

http://www.chinesenewyears.info/chinese-new-year-calendar.php

http://www.travelchinaguide.com/intro/social_customs/zodiac/

Temperate seasons

Tropical climate seasons

Specific

Science portal

Sunrise Sunset Calendar

All Holidays for 2012, UK

Holiday List - Wikipedia

The ancient Celts started their diurnal cycle at sunset. There’s a BIG clue! The Celtic calendar initiates spring at Imbolc (February 1). Meteorologically it's still officially winter (Gregorian calendar); although climate change is almost a month ahead now.

The Celt year starts in autumn (and their day begins at dusk) - there is much to consider in the reasons for this. One way of thinking as a Celt is to imagine the withdrawal of life during the dark half of the year into the meditations of the last light half - like seeds falling and gestating then sprouting in the new cycle of light having related their data to the ongoing environmental changes morphed by time and circumstance. . .

Also see 1 2 and. . .

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NORTHERN HEMISPHERE - SUMMER

Celtic summer: (Beltane) May 1st to Aug 1st

Meteorological summer: Jun 1st to Aug 31st

Astronomical summer: Jun 20th to Sep 20th

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Compass

Orientation

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MISC LINKS

The Seasons of Renku

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Architectonic Space

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This calendar thing is all about SEASONAL REFERENCE (or, kigo, if we can manage that deeper cultural matrix). Moreover, it helps to sensitise one to the same, thus calibrating our awareness, or at least optioning that formal wake up call. (Which is a yoga by any other name.)

Haiku can be caught in the wilds, or painted from memory in the aspirant's studio. Oft-times enough, in either case, we have two lines (or segments) for a haiku that give us our dynamic contrast (the infamous 'juxtaposition', aka: ' toria wase' come 'toriawase') and which works its evocative magic. But, what to do about keywording specific seasonality in the absence of an inherent option?

In Japan they have (somewhat parochial, even on their own turf) saijiki ("year time chronicle" - sort of haiku almanacs) to help. All we global 'foreigners' have, other than our own indigenous knowledge of course, is the local calendar and its notable days to assist us in admxing some cultural big picture and/or literate nuance into the seasonal framing of our haikai products. Hence this initiative here at geodesic_eye (the eye of the bee!).

This page is mostly courtesy of Wikipedia - thanks for that guys.

C A L E N D A R

Noun

calendar (plural calendars)

1. Any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years.
  1. 1. We currently use the Gregorian calendar.
2. A means to determine the date consisting of a document containing dates and other temporal information.