The Druidcraft calendar was never intended as a genuine authentic ancient druidic calendar. Instead it is a tool to help modern pagan practitioners to understand the movements of the sun and moon for ritual and predictive purposes, which by its very nature is a calendar. Despite this, in this article I would like to discuss [...]
Month: February 2019
If you become interested in lunisolar calendars you will undoubtedly come across the Metonic system which is defined rather simply. The Metonic system is a way to reconcile the movements of the sun and the moon over 19 year period. 12 lunar months of 29.5 days is 354 days 1 solar year is 365.24 days [...]
In my last article in this series I discussed a number of prehistoric calendar sites that show that early humans were concerned with reconciling the movements of the sun and moon in order to follow a lunisolar calendar. The problem with reconciling the movements of the sun with the movements of the moon is that [...]
The Druidcraft calendar can be used for many additional purposes beyond being a simple calendar. In this article I would like to explain how the calendar can be used as a very simple clock for roughly telling the time. Because the calendar marks the position of the sun in the sky, and the calendar itself [...]
If you spend any time following this calendar you may have noticed over the last month that there have been a number of updates to the online calendar application. Importantly the way that months, years and leap months work has undergone some changes, and in this post I would like to explain why. When I [...]
It has now been over a year since the Druidcraft Calendar was first conceived. In that time I have spoken to a lot of people and tried to spread the word far and wide in order to get as much feedback on the calendar as I can. Overall this feedback has been positive. Every so [...]