16 Nov What is the Peace Calendar?
The Peace Calendar is a simple calendar, although a more visual one than those we are accustomed to, with alignments of boxes, and boxes within boxes.
The Peace Calendar shows you the year in one sight. The date correspond to the position of our planet, the Earth, around the Sun. The year goes along, counterclockwise, because that’s how the Earth travels around the Sun.
This calendar is meant for people living in the Northern Hemisphere, but a version for people living in the Southern Hemisphere should be coming soon. 
On the 8 planets spinning around the Sun, you see the Arctic Circle and North Pole. Because of the tilt of the Earth on it’s axis (23 degrees) you can see how the Winter Solstice, Yule, December 21st, is the longest night of the year, and how the Summer Solstice, Litha, June 21st, is the longest day of the year.
Between Solstices are the Equinoxes, when day and night are the same length for a brief instant, before one and the other becomes longer/shorter. On Ostara, March 20th, and Mabon, September 22nd.
In-between are mid-season traditional holidays: Beltane, Lughnasad, Samhain, Imbolc.
The zodiac constellations give additional spacial positional information. We’ll get into that in more details another time. As with the various symbols on the celtic original version.
Not too long ago, I discovered I had celtic roots. Like so many of us. Roots I didn’t know I had because I was self absorbed in my own generation, like nothing had had to come before me for thousands and thousands of years. Having a better understanding of time and of where I come from greatly improved the way I see myself in the present and where I want to aim for the future.
What can the Peace Calendar do for you?
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