The SoLuna Calendar

This is a website made to explain a newly created calendar system that is not based on an older system and meant to foster positive productive change in our species.

The West's current calendar system, the Gregorian, has been in place for more than 400 years, was based on an even older flawed calendar system, and relies on spurious-to-the-present year & day markers to determine 'when' it is. In the last 100 years, let alone last 50 years, we have been able to measure Time with much greater accuracy but still have leap years, months named after the wrong number in a dead language, and time periods that are rather hard for human minds to wrap their heads around. The Gregorian is also Latin language based, Roman Catholic, and, as previously stated, from a time period well outside the lifetime of anyone living today. Why not anglicize, secularize, and bring reference times closer to a human time scale of less than 100 years versus keeping a system where we label this year as 2020 Anno Domini?

The SoLuna calendar is a type of Lunisolar calendar that determines the first day of the year as being the first full moon or new moon on the day of or after the Northern hemisphere's hibernal solstice.

The year is then split up into Dureens, which are the durations of time between the day of a full moon and the day before it's following new moon as well as the time between the day of a new moon and the day before it's following full moon. There are 24-25 (maybe 26, I haven't crunched enough numbers yet) Dureens each year and 14-16 days each Dureen . In the case of extremely disruptive outerspatial events like asteroids slamming into the Earth, Moon, or another celestial being with enough mass to affect lunar and planetal orbits, this calendar system could become useless. For a more scientific and "exact" calendar and time system, you must go with quantum measurements or at least atomic ones not lining up with planetary movement at the slightest.

Each Dureen is split into 3 Sectoons. The first 2 Sectoons are 5 days each and the last can be 4-6 days.

When determining what year it is, you count back the years it has been since the last new year fell on the hibernal solstice. This happens about every 30 years and the last was just over 9 years ago (Gregorian year 2014AD) so this year (Gregorian year 2023AD) would be labelled as 9S, for 9 years (S)ince the last new/full moon Northern hemisphere hibernal solstice. Years before then are simply referred to as how many years ago it was to keep from doing unneeded math. Still figuring out how, where, what, and when all these should be measured from for world wide sameness of "when" it is but for now just using data from the mid northwestern of the Eastern US timezone.

Days are labelled per Dureen, not Sectoon. New moon days, full moon days, equinoxes, and solstices are observed and named also.

There are 5 Seasons with the first 4 containing 5 Dureens each and the last containing the remainder of the Dureens left in the year.

Seasons are in order as follows: Rymecur, Nusev, Aiga, Sarm, Turpeij

Dureens are in order as follows: Aizza, Bybay, Caexa, Dawai, Eava, Fufee, Geet, Heesh, Iree, Jeeq, Kipie, Loi, Minii, Nime, Olli, Poko, Quojo, Roio, Soeh, Toeg, Uffu, Veu, Wudu, Xucu, Yubu

Sectoons are in order as follows: Rustan, Suranu, Tennupe

Days are in order as follows: Moona/Nvla*, Emeriday, Aseurday, Fricaday, Railaday, Paciday, Norday, Surday, Lantaday, Indiday, Bioday, Tropoday, Stratoday, Mesoday, Hermoday, Xoday

Moona, a day of the Full Moon, and Nula, a day of the New Moon, are always the first day of the Dureen. When this is also the first day of the year Moona is designated as Moonala and Nula is designated as Nulana. When the first day of the year also falls on the Northern hemispheres hibernal solstice, Moonala is designated as Moonalana and Nulana is designated as Nulanala.

The Northern hemisphere's solstices and equinoxes are observed and named: Rieday - vernal equinox, Upday - estival solstice, Lefday - autumnal equinox, Donday - hibernal solstice

The SoLuna calendar was created with ease and practicality in mind. Instead of using the birth of a religious figure thousands of years ago as the basis for counting the years, the SoLuna calendar uses a verifiable time that happens within the range of an average human lifespan. Using a time accounting system on a human scale of time versus almost a geological scale of time stretching our minds out 2000 plus years every time we recall the date seems an exercise in futility.

This also makes time and dates easier to comprehend without the need to subtract 1529 from 2020 in your head to understand that 1529AD/CE was 491 years ago or add 2020 to 1529 to understand that 1529BC/BCE was 3549 years ago. These year dates are less helpful in understanding when something happened than just saying exactly how long ago something happened.

Instead of 7 days of a Week that don't coincide with the date of a month or Julian date of a year, the Days of a Dureen/Sectoon always land on the same number day of either, making for easier determining of 'when' someone is talking about.

Names were created based on English words for planets, continents, oceans, atmosphere levels, and numbers for inclusive, secular, and mnemonic reasonings. The seasons are the first 5 planets in order with their letters rearranged and the 3 Sectoons are the following 3 planets with their letters rearranged. Each Dureen starts with a different letter of the alphabet, ends with the same vowel as all other Dureens in the same Season, and most sound out close to the number of the Dureen. Days of the Dureen were named after continents, oceans, and atmosphere levels.

The start of the year is related to an observable occurrence, versus using the same day the new moon occurred after the hibernal solstice in 46AD/CE which the Gregorian calendar borrowed from the Julian almost 1500 years later.

There is NEVER a need for a leap year, month, day or any sort of shift. The only shifting that happens are accounted for in the last Sectoon of a Dureen and the last Dureen of the year may be the 24th or 25th but this is not a correction, it is just when the sun shines the least and the moon shows all or nothing.

5 Seasons, mostly 5 Dureens a Season, 3 Sectoons a Dureen, and mostly 5 days a Sectoon make for counting and signaling dates with one hand much easier. No Seasons, Dureens, Sectoons, or Days share the same first letter keeping abbreviations to one letter.

Following a new calendar can sound daunting, some countries refused to switch from the Julian to the Gregorian for hundreds of years because they wanted to avoid the change of "losing" 10 days off their year, but a new way of thinking about and accounting for time can help people reassess their use of it and their relationship with it. This calendar aims to press the refresh button on our Time out of this century and closer to Now.