A Thelemic Calendar
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
This calendar is intended to replace the old Roman calendar with a convenient system based upon the Solar year. Each 365 day year is divided without remainder into 5 months of 73 days,173 = גמל, Gimel = Luna; hence a “month”. Also, 73 = חכמה, Chokmah; one “Chokmah Day” (See The Confessions of Aleister Crowley). beginning on the Vernal Equinox.2For convenience, the calendrical year begins always on the 21st of March, whether the astronomical Equinox occurs on that day or otherwise.
| 1. 21st March | – | 1st June |
| 2. 2nd June | – | 13th August3The 13th of August being the morrow of the “feast for the first night of the Prophet and his Bride”. |
| 3. 14th August | – | 25th October |
| 4. 26th October | – | 6th January |
| 5. 7th January4The original date of the celebration of the nativity of Isa (Jesus); which was the 6th of January (the Epiphany), but due to the error of one day in the conversion to the Gregorian calendar, should be the 7th (as in the Russian Orthodox Calendar). See John Dee’s report on the subject, summarised here: [see footnote below]. | – | 20th March |
The first day of each month begins with day one, whilst the first year of the calendar (beginning in 1904) is numbered for convenience as zero.
Thus, the 8th of May 2002e.v. would be: 49/1/985The notation being in the day/month/year format. (or, fully, ☿/1/49/98/♒).
Leap days are added as before, noted as day 74 of month 5.674 = למד, Lamed = Atu VIII, “Adjustment”.
In the Aeon of Isis, there were three seasons;7See Robert Graves, The Greek Myths. in the Aeon of Osiris, four; this system has five. However, the “seasons” are not seasons as such, since it is a global calendar, and does not necessarily accord with the seasonal periods of any particular region.
Love is the law, love under will.
Frater Hoor
9th August 2002 aera vulgari
69/2/98 aerâ novâ
1 73 = גמל, Gimel = Luna; hence a “month”. Also, 73 = חכמה, Chokmah; one “Chokmah Day” (See The Confessions of Aleister Crowley).
2 For convenience, the calendrical year begins always on the 21st of March, whether the astronomical Equinox occurs on that day or otherwise.
3 The 13th of August being the morrow of the “feast for the first night of the Prophet and his Bride”.
4 The original date of the celebration of the nativity of Isa (Jesus); which was the 6th of January (the Epiphany), but due to the error of one day in the conversion to the Gregorian calendar, should be the 7th (as in the Russian Orthodox Calendar). See John Dee’s report on the subject, summarised here: http://www.hermetic.ch/cal_stud/jdee.html.
5 The notation being in the day/month/year format.
6 74 = למד, Lamed = Atu VIII, “Adjustment”.
7 See Robert Graves, The Greek Myths.