Moonwise Calendar

Compiled by William Morris
Published through Edge of Time

Description

Updated and available each year, this is a large format 13 month calendar in gorgeous black and yellow, with beautiful and inspiring illustrations by Catriona Stamp on the theme of pilgrimage in different traditions.

This is a calendar to help you keep in touch with natural cycles in the sky, the earth and yourself.

Each month begins at new crescent moon and lasts for 29 or 30 days. The months are named after trees, in an amended version of Robert Graves’ Irish tree cycle in The White Goddess.

The Moonwise Calendar 2005 has: illustrations by Catriona Stamp on the theme of pilgrimage in different traditions moon phases, moon signs and moon words for every night the usual Gregorian dates alongside for easy use
lunar months from many calendars in historical and current use festivals from many traditions: Pagan, Secular, Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Sikh, Hindu, Buddhist, Chinese and others map of the night sky each month notes for viewing the night sky, and for following the planets in their dance around the heavens.

For further information visit the Moonwise web site at:
http://www.moonwise.co.uk/default.htm

Reviews

Review One

Review Summary

An unusual, beautiful and incredibly useful calendar.

Comments

This calendar is a wonderful addition to the already highly competitive pagan market place of journals, diaries and calendars. In this instance, however, there is a unique (as far as I'm aware) and very useful feature. It is based on the thirteen lunar months of the year, giving extensive information for each of the months, with each month beginning at the new crescent moon. Each month is assigned the moon name in English, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish, Breton and French. The moon names are the Druid names used by Emma Restall Orr, alternative pagan names, heathen or anglo-saxon months and the names from the Coligny Calendar of Gaul.

Each and every day is assigned a keyword based on astrological influences, and there is a mass of beautifully presented and, importantly, easy to follow detail on every page. It would have been very easy to produce a confusing mass of impractical data, with little or no chance of the calendar being used. This is most certainly not the case. And the illustrations by Catriona Stamp are both simple and stunning.

On its own this makes the perfect calendar for pagans and those interested in other faiths. With the accompanying Moonwise Diary you will have every piece of information you could possibly hope for.

Stunning, beautiful and highly recommended.

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