Viterbo, March 22nd 2026
Dear Friend,
For the longest time, I thought it was just me.
I’ve always struggled a lot with clocks and calendars. I’ve always found it really hard to deal with dates, appointments, deadlines, opening hours, times of departure and arrival, any precise moment in time, that rips me out of my natural flow.
I’ve always had this horrible, stressful feeling of running against time, running out of time, and of always being too early or to late. And over the last couple of years it got even worse for me, I just cannot relate to how fast the days, weeks, months, and years go.
If I think back to my childhood, I remember telling my mum many times, how I wanted to live outside of time counting. Sleep when I was tired, eat when I was hungry, play when I wanted to, and not be disturbed when I was doing something I liked.
Half a century later, I still feel exactly the same way about all of that. Things have improved marginally now that it’s mostly me, deciding when I have to do what, but still, I’m far from being at peace with this whole time thing.
I find it all incredibly unnatural. I understand that things would work less smoothly if we stopped tracking time, but I’m profoundly convinced that we could do it in a better way.
It was the spring solstice three days ago. Now that’s a point in time that makes sense to me. I was never able to accept the fact that we start each new year on a ridiculously random day in the middle of winter, when nature is asleep and we should be resting too. I always found that so terribly disconnected from everything.
In a year of 365 days, the moon has 13 full cycles of 28 days, a fact that was perfectly mirrored in many ancient cosmologies, from early Roman to Egyptian, to Celtic, to Polynesian, to African, to Mesoamerican ones.
I’ve been investigating these things over the last year or so, and what I didn’t know is, that in modern times, only one hundred years ago, a few major attempts were made, at reintroducing a 13-month calendar, in which every month had exactly 28 days, starting on a Monday the 1st. Every single week starts on a Monday (the 1st, 8th, 15th, and 22nd) and ends on a Sunday (the 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th).
So you would have a perpetual calendar, 13 x 28 = 364 days, with one extra day a year, that usually goes after December 28th. That day would be called the “Day Out Of Time”, and have no number attached to it. And on leap years, you would have a second “Day Out Of Time”, usually after June 28th. What a blessing these one or two days would be!
The model proposed at the beginning of the Twentieth Century still started on January 1st though, which even so, doesn’t make sense to me.
But if we start the year on the spring solstice, things begin to make a lot more sense.
To my big surprise, I found out that this topic is actually a thing! There are many people out there feeling the same way as I do, there are websites and communities and lots of research on that.
I’m enjoying my experiment with this at the moment, I’m curious to see how it changes my perception of time, and I’m happy to share the first month of my Lunar Calendar with you!
So, according to my new personal time keeping, today is Wednesday, the 3rd of April of 2026, and it’s the third day of the new year.
Another thing that’s been driving me mad since primary school, is that the names of the months make no sense at all. As an Italian native speaker, names like:
September (septem is Latin for 7)
October (octo is Latin for 8)
November (novem is Latin for 9), and
December (decem is Latin for 10)
when given to our 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th month respectively, are so utterly wrong!
If we go back to a 13-month calendar, and start the year on the spring solstice with April 1st, our months will now become
1. April
2. May
3. June
4. Sol (sol means ‘sun’ in Latin)
5. July
6. August
7. September
8. October
9. November
10. December
11. January
12. February
13. March
I hope you don’t find this too idle or silly, but the way our normal calendar has been structured, historically, by emperors and popes, is just another tool the ones in power use, to disconnect humans from their planet and their natural rhythms.
Nature works in harmonious cycles, our common calendar disrupts that natural feeling for time completely. It has no harmony, it gives a distorted image of how time flows in our solar system, and it messes with our well-being, our energy, and our sovereignty.
If I only made you smile today, that’s fine. Do you think I’m a looney? ‘Looney’ means lunatic (moonstruck) as in: a person whose mind is deranged by the influence of Luna, the moon.
More than moonstruck, I feel springstruck at the moment 😊🌿🌸🌱🌼🌷🦋
Have a great week and I’ll speak to you next Wednesday 😉
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