Civilization has always depended on accurate time-keeping 

systems. Success with the timing of agricultural matters,

financial concerns including markets, accounting and taxes,

and seasonal celebrations such as festivals, all require

an accurate method of counting time. The rhythm of time

is defined as ordered recurrence in fixed intervals.

Regular astronomical cycles such as the daily rising 

and setting of stars like the Sun and the waxing and 

waning of the Moon, and their connection to the Earth's 

seasons and seasonal events, gave the ancients standards 

by which to form calendars and time counting systems.

The obsession with time-keeping and its link to 

numerological calculations eventually reveals the 

awareness of an unexplained, ordered, omnipresent 

intelligence; a sort of cosmic, or "universal  time," 

and how it's intimately linked to calendar formation 

and reform, no matter how random each may seem. 

Time is far deeper than a simple clock reading, it's 

a rhythm that ties everything together and links the 

human microcosm to the macrocosmic "all that is." 

Calendar numerology allows you to recognize its pulse 

and therefore forecast personal circumstances and 

events linked to its tempo.

In addition to the prevailing calendar, in our view, 

being automatically and mysteriously coordinated to 

everyone's life through various forms of numerology, 

there is a surprising amount of mathematical precision

involving astronomical cycles relating to the history of 

the formation our modern calendar. We feel this lends a 

great deal of reliability to its successful use as a

basis for numerological calculations.

We believe that souls incarnate on Earth with the timing 

of their fated life circumstances and events (symbolized

by comprehensive cyclical timing and delineation 

methods) synchronized with the predominant calendar 

of the time, that being currently the modern solar-cycle 

based Gregorian calendar with its 365 days and 12 months.

Our research tells us that modern and ancient numerological 

date-based methods produce the most accurate results 

using the modern, every-day calendar as mentioned above. 

In most places in the world, if you ask what date it is,

you'll receive an answer reflecting a Gregorian calendar

date; it's a universal calendar (unlike others) and the main 

synchronization system for most of the Earth's inhabitants. 

We're convinced it's intimately connected with "what is," 

seen through personality and predictive techniques that 

utilize its configuration.

The modern calendar is the international scientific, 

commercial, and administrative standard today. It 

represents the pulse of humanity and its roots are in 

ancient Egypt.

Calendar revisions throughout history have represented 

shifts toward a closer alignment with the progression of 

time. Multitudes and multitudes of constantly operating 

short, medium, and long-term time cycles tied to our 

solar calendar symbolize time, how it operates on a 

universal level, and its relationship to everyone under 

the Sun as it transpires on this plane, displayed through 

personal time cycles. These cycles outline fated personal 

circumstances and events, including spiritual progression. 

Being "in the flow," or "at the right place at the right

time," are ways of noting harmonization with the advancement 

of time, both on a universal and personal level.

Some claim that the "consciousness" of the Earth's 

inhabitants changes due to calendar revisions, but we 

believe that all changes are simply illustrative of what 

was fated to happen anyway. They don't, by themselves, 

make things happen any more than changing one's hair 

color makes one younger.

Ancient astronomers (frequently priests of various faiths) 

perched on their temple towers, working in conjunction 

with the land's king or ruler, would meticulously record 

astronomical observations, eventually developing systems 

by which to measure some of the natural cycles of this 

planet.

Evidence shows that the Sumerians, around 4000 years 

ago in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq and surrounding 

area), were possibly the first culture in the Earth's

recorded history to formulate a formal solar calendar,

which had 365 days. The Babylonians (after approximately

2500 BC) also devised an official calendar, but based it

on solar and lunar cycles (lunisolar). The Hebrew calendar

is also lunisolar and its origins are believed to be

linked to the Babylonians.

The most accurate ancient lunar calendar may have been 

formulated by the Chinese after approximately 500 BC. 

Although based on lunar cycles, it's really a lunisolar 

calendar, like the Babylonian and Hebrew calendars; its

starting point varies each year being roughly synchronized 

with the solar calendar/tropical year (about 365 days long).

The Mayans appeared to possess the most accurate calendar 

in recorded history up until around 1000 AD, varying less 

than 1 minute a year from our modern Gregorian.

The Persian calendar in the Middle Ages around 1070 

AD, thanks to astronomer Omar Khayyam, surpassed 

the accuracy of the Mayan model. This is not surprising, 

considering the Persians' and Arabs' superior scientific 

(especially astrological) contributions in the Middle 

Ages. After Omar Khayyam's Persian calendar corrections

were officially adopted, this calendar was also more

accurate than the Julian calendar, which preceded our

current Gregorian calendar. Omar Khayyam calculated the

solar year to be 365.24219858156 days long, accurate to

the sixth decimal place.

The ancient Egyptians formed a calendar (twelve 

thirty-day months plus five days to equal 365 days) 

before 2400 BC based on the star Sirius (they called 

this star Sothis). They noticed that this star would 

appear in the east just before sunrise every year around 

the time of the Nile's annual flood. A Sothic cycle is 

1460 years and is defined by the heliacal rising of

Sirius returning to the exact same point. Respected for

its mathematical reliability, this calendar was used by 

astronomers in the Middle Ages.

The Egyptians' seasonal year, the time between the 

consecutive heliacal risings of the star Sirius, is 

remarkably close to the actual length of the solar year. 

However, the approximate six hour difference means that

over just a couple of centuries their calendar would

have been totally out of synch with the timing of the 

seasons in relation to the solar year. The Egyptian 

astronomers quickly identified this problem and 

apparently tried to compensate by using a second 

lunar calendar, which tied into the solar cycle. A 

lunar calendar was also followed for festivals.

The Romans, under Julius Cesar, influenced by the 

astronomer Sisogenes of Alexandria Egypt, recognized 

the sophisticated astronomical skills of the Egyptians 

and adopted the Egyptian star (Sirius) calendar around 

50 BC, and added one day to the calendar every four 

years (leap year) to adapt to the solar cycle. They 

abandoned their lunar calendar and the Julian calendar, 

forerunner to our modern Gregorian calendar, was born.

An aside, a Metonic cycle (invented by the 5th century BC 

Greek astronomer Meton) is 6940 days including 235 lunar 

months comprising almost exactly 19 solar years. The 

19-year cycle is significant as every 19 years the Moon 

and the Sun are aspected identically, on the same day of 

the year (the Metonic cycle's error rate is about 12 hours 

every 109.5 years: 19 tropical years = 6939.602 days and 

235 synodic months = 6939.688 days).

A Callippic cycle (presented in 4th century BC by the

Greek astronomer Callippus) is a 76-year cycle equivalent 

to four Metonic cycles, less one day. It's a modification

of the Metonic cycle. These cycles, widely used by ancient 

Egyptian and other astronomers before the Alexandrian 

calendar reform (under Julius Cesar), are important for 

sequential functions, and are superb cyclical timing 

considerations that can be used to outline fated life 

circumstances.

It's interesting that the Julian calendar's implementation 

took place in year 1 of a Metonic cycle, 19 years from a 

complete 76-year Callipic cycle, which suggests that the 

designers of the calendar were heavily influenced by the 

standards of the mathematical precision of the Metonic 

and Callippic cycles.

Even though the .25/day addition every year resulted in 

the Julian calendar being only about .00781 days from 

the true solar cycle, this difference yielded about a ten 

day error by the 1500's.

In 1582 the Gregorian calendar reform was adopted under 

the reign of Pope Gregory XIII to correct the inaccuracies 

of the Julian calendar. Striving for mathematical exactitude 

in calculating the length of the tropical year (the cycle of 

the seasons or solar year, defined as the time interval 

between vernal equinoxes), the scientists of that era 

dictated that the new universal calendar first drop 11

days from the old calendar as of October 4th, 1582 

(making that day October 15th) and then initiated a 

leap year system adding a day every four years (except 

in century years evenly divisible by 400 or 4000). 

Although not perfect, this improved the solar calendar 

year to 365.2422 days, an error of about one day every 

3300 years.

Today's calendar year begins in January conceivably 

because it's the first full month when the days start 

growing longer (minutes of daily sunlight increasing 

in the Northern Hemisphere, which includes most of the

world's land and about 90% of the human population),

after the Winter Solstice at the end of December.

Additionally, the planet Saturn mutually ruling time

and the sign of Capricorn might have something to do

with the selection of January as the first month of the

calendar year. The seven day week division is probably

linked to ancient farmers planting by the moon's phases

(seven day quarters). As to why the day officially starts

at 12:00 a.m. and not sunrise, it's possibly due to the

fact that after 12:00 a.m. the Sun departs from its daily

nadir (in relation to the Earth) as it begins its ascent

to the midheaven, which it reaches at Noon.

After the 1600's the Gregorian calendar was finally used 

throughout most of Europe and was adopted by what is 

now the east coast of America in the mid 1700's, before 

1776, the recognized birth year of America. Greece and 

Russia avoided using it until the early 1900's. Japan 

formally implemented it in 1873, Korea in 1896, and 

China in 1912.

We feel accuracy in date-based numerology has always been

due to a combination of the soundness of empirically-

based numerology calculations, a mystifying link to the 

prevailing calendar of the day, along with the precision of 

that calendar in relation to cyclical earthly occurrences

(like the solar cycle).

Other-dimensional forces beyond human comprehension serve

to automatically synchronize one's birth data (day, month,

year, etc. of the calendar system) with one's timing and

personality (each mirrors the other), as symbolized by the

numerology aspects that comprise the patterns that are the

basis for delineation and prediction.

We conclude that the current universal calendar's gradual 

formation was very deliberate and calculated and its 

mathematical soundness and link to cosmic time, or universal

intelligence, allows for calendar-based numerology, like

that found in our Numerology Decoder and Time Cycle Decoder

software programs, to precisely outline how every person is

uniquely connected to the all-encompassing rhythm known as

time.

Scott Petullo

http://www.scottpetullo.com

Stephen Petullo

http://www.holisticmakeover.com

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