day out of time the moon

a while ago i found out about the 13moon calendar...

just after me & P were no more, a time imbued with a certain manic energy as i plunged into any number of odd esoteric ideas,...

i still like the idea of the 13moon calender, although the fact that it's not actually based on the moon as seen from earth, but is a generalised moon in a pattern that repeats exactly every solar year (the moon follows different patterns to the sun and rarely coincides with solar years)... this detracts from it, but as an alternate way of ordering our days, instead of our irregular calender, it does an alright job...

so i have a look at my calender with no days only numbers, that i converted into a 13moon calender several months back, and today is the day out of time, the whole thing starts again tomorrow, 13 moons each of 28 days, which will eventually lead us back to july 25th (2006), the day out of time...

i've been reading about the moon recently in an excellent series of articles written by an ex-farmer (calls himself JACKME on the megalithic portal site) who has spent a decade or so working out the system behind the great stone circles of england... the point on the horizon where the moon rises or sets moves north and south in a monthly pattern... the furthest north & furthest south it moves follows an 18.6 year pattern, this year (2005) sees the moon reaching as far south as it ever does in this 18.6 year pattern... i don't know when this is but i intend to find out...

so JACKME has spent the last 3 weeks talking about how stone circles can be used to trace where we are in the moons cycles, previously he's been talking about the sun... very interesting guy, lives near the stone circle @ swinside so much of what he says is based on that, but he also travels around the country to watch the sunrise (or set) at any number of other stone circles...

went over to the landlords place to play the piano, i've arranged to record my solo piano piece there in a week and a half, the first of an album of solo piano pieces i hope...

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