For new students of the 13 Moon Calendar a common stumbling block is the tendency to try and reconcile it absolutely with some relative measurement of the physical motion of celestial bodies through space.
Everything in the vast universe is moving, spinning and orbiting in many directions simultaneously, relative to an infinite array of reference points which can be used to measure an infinite array of celestial cycles. With information like this we even make bold estimations of the time it takes for the Sun to complete its orbit around the galaxy. (Current estimates are 230 million years…!)
But, nailing down exacting answers to the actuality of celestial cycles is an elusive undertaking, even in relative terms. Relative to the Sun, the Earth orbits around it every 365+ days. Relative to the Earth, the Moon orbits around it 13-ish times during 365+ days. For the best of all our observations, these measurements are always approximate. The cosmos isn’t some gigantic, crude machine made of gargantuan steel cogs.
“So, how do you know that today is Blue Magnetic Hand and not another galactic signature?” “What if it was miscalculated and we’re all on the wrong day!” “Isn’t it a beam shooting out from the center of the galaxy to our planet?” “What if we lose track of it???” “How can you skip a signature during leap day and not fall out of step with the cycle?”
These great questions come from a fundamental misunderstanding of the 13 Moon Calendar, and so are often the cause of sufficient confusion to even make people just give up on learning it!
The 13 Moon Calendar isn’t a mechanically precise engineering schematic of the relative movement of physical bodies through space.
True, 13 Moons of 28 days each plus 1 Day Out of Time is arguably the most elegant way to measure the cycle of Earth’s orbit around the Sun.
True, the 260-day cycle is the approximate duration of human gestation.
True: The perpetual 52-year cycle (synchronizing the 365- and 260-day cycles) is a very close approximation of the physical orbit of the star Sirius B around Sirius A.
But: From the perspective of the Law of Time, the evolutionary virtue of tracking all these cycles is that they are in tune with (and therefore tune human conscious in to) the universal frequency of synchronization (13:20).
In other words, the 13 Moon Calendar isn’t as concerned with the perceived motion of celestial bodies, as with the actual fourth-dimensional latticework which informs those movements. This latticework is constructed upon specific mathematical principles, including the ratio 13:20, 4:7::7:13, and so on. This is called the synchronic order: “the determining mental and telepathic order of the universe” (Jose Arguelles, The 260 Postulates of the Dynamics of Time).
The synchronic order is as primary as, if not primary to, the principles of what we call physics. From this perspective, physics is simply the science of the what we can perceive through the senses and their artificial extensions, such as telescopes, microscopes, antennae, etc.
The Law of Time boldly posits the existence of multidimensional laws and principles of cosmic order which pre-exist everything measurable through our current model of physics. Woah! But is it really that crazy of an idea? After all, we’re just one type of life form in an unfathomably endless universe. Doesn’t it seem a little presumptuous to think only our particular sensory apparati is capable of perceiving everything?
Anyway, if everything we perceive through our senses is the Broadway Show, the synchronic order is the script or Director, giving the performance some coherence and order (such as lines being spoken in the right place and the right time!). Following this analogy, an experience of synchronicity is like performing your lines at a pivotal moment in the story and then noticing the Director giving you a big smile and thumbs up!
Despite all the dubious analogies I can come up with, utilizing the 13 Moon Calendar is truly a scientific study. But unlike fields such as astronomy you are not dealing with physics but synchronometrics – the measure of synchronicity in your own direct experience. The 13 Moon Calendar (synchronometer) describes the mathematical principles of the synchronic order as a coherent system for timekeeping which cultivates in the user an increasing experience, and therefore understanding, of synchronicity.
The 13 Moon Calendar’s unique purpose is not to keep track of something happening out there but everywhere at once. So while synchronometrics is performed through the tracking of cycles, the motion of celestial objects as such is not the point, but rather the order underlying those movements and our direct experience of that order.
To a classically trained scientist it might sound brazen to assert that something as simple as a “calendar” could measure and elucidate something primary to everything that is known about physics. But I’ll happily accept an outraged backlash to the question: What good is our scientific method if direct experience is not a factor in the equation?
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