Comments on: Should the Calendar We Use to Mark Time’s Passage be Changed? http://astrologynewsservice.com/opinion/should-the-calendar-we-use-to-mark-time%e2%80%99s-passage-be-changed/ Tue, 07 May 2013 18:59:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Rab http://astrologynewsservice.com/opinion/should-the-calendar-we-use-to-mark-time%e2%80%99s-passage-be-changed/#comment-82 Rab Sat, 09 Feb 2013 05:19:00 +0000 http://astrologynewsservice.com/?p=858#comment-82 A more useful question might be, Do astrologers need their own calendar(s)? Because it’s highly unlikely that the civil calendar (Gregorian) -- or the system of global time zones, for that matter – is going to change any time soon. Let’s be realistic and less Utopian. And less simplistic, imagining a problem that can be solved only by one system replacing another system. The way ahead, surely, is toward greater complexity, co-existence of systems, and choice. Some cultures do use, or have used, quite successfully more than one calendar. The Mayan culture is one well-known example, but there are many others that use different calendars for different purposes – for market days, ritual cycles, scientific time-keeping, etc., along with Gregorian for the connection to global convention. (And sometimes, as with Mayan, the various calendars interlock very neatly). A more useful question might be, Do astrologers need their own calendar(s)?
Because it’s highly unlikely that the civil calendar (Gregorian) — or the system
of global time zones, for that matter – is going to change any time soon. Let’s be
realistic and less Utopian. And less simplistic, imagining a problem that can be
solved only by one system replacing another system. The way ahead, surely, is
toward greater complexity, co-existence of systems, and choice.

Some cultures do use, or have used, quite successfully more than one calendar.
The Mayan culture is one well-known example, but there are many others that
use different calendars for different purposes – for market days, ritual cycles,
scientific time-keeping, etc., along with Gregorian for the connection to global
convention. (And sometimes, as with Mayan, the various calendars interlock
very neatly).

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