July 25 - Day Out of Time
Yes, it’s Wednesday, July 25. But that’s on the Gregorian calendar, not on the thirteen moon/28 day calendar! Today is a ‘day out of time.’ What, you’ve never heard of it? It’s been around for millennia, and people who think it makes more sense than our present day calendar want it to come back.
The thirteen moon calendar is based on 13 months of exactly 28 days each – four perfect weeks each month. Every day of the week of every month is exactly the same as every month. That makes 52 perfect weeks a year. But, as you can see, 13 x 28 or 52 x 7 equals 364. Aren’t there 365 days a year? Correct.
In the 13-moon calendar, that 365th day of the year is no day of the week or month at all. It’s a day out of time. In this way, the 13-month calendar remains perpetual. The days of the week and the days of the month are the same, year after year – and this is true every month of the year.
The Day out of Time, celebrated annually since 1992, always falls on July 25th. On the 13 Moon calendar, this day is no day of the month, and no day of the week. It is in between the closing of the previous year (July 24th) and the dawning of the new year (July 26th).
Back in the 1930s, the League of Nations wanted to give the world a more logical timing standard. It selected the 13-month 28-day calendar as the best way to do it. It had the support of the International Chamber of Commerce and entrepreneurs like Eastman Kodak. But conservative forces prevailed; the calendar didn’t change nor did the world. But beginning in 1993, the thirteen moon calendar started to make a come back, this time as a steadily growing world wide populist movement. From Australia to Austria, from Israel to Brazil, from Chile to Croatia – and in dozens of countries in between, the new calendar is spreading. The Day out of Time draws them all together.
This day is an opportunity to experience the freedom of being alive, true timelessness and loving kindness. Millions of people in 92 countries around the world come together to celebrate their liberation from the rat race-sustaining ideology that “Time is Money.” If you go to most any Day out of Time celebration you will see the banner of peace. The symbol on that banner (above) signifies the unity of art, science and spirituality.