Reclaiming Time: Why a Lunar Calendar Just Makes Sense
Ever feel like time is speeding up—or dragging on unbearably slow? You’re not alone. As we age, it often feels like time accelerates, slipping through our fingers. But maybe it’s not time that’s off—maybe it’s the way we measure it.
Time, Structure & the First Calendars
As humans, we crave structure. Our minds like clarity, and calendars help us define the passing of time. Interestingly, the first calendars were lunar. Ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, and Indigenous cultures all tracked time by watching the moon. A lunar month is approximately 29.5 days—easy to follow. You simply looked to the sky: if the moon was full, you were about two weeks (a fortnight) from the new moon.
Time was once viewed as cyclical, not linear, and it was rooted in nature’s rhythms.
This is why, if you've ever attended one of my workshops or courses, you’ve heard me say:
“The sun is masculine—consistent, steady, doing the same thing each day. The moon is feminine—she shifts, cycles, and flows, just as women do.”
When the Sun Took Over
As agriculture evolved, aligning with the solar year became essential for planting and harvesting. The Egyptians developed one of the earliest solar calendars, roughly 365 days long, which later influenced the Roman calendar.
In 45 BCE, Julius Caesar introduced the Julian calendar—a solar-based calendar with 12 months. But it wasn’t perfect. By the 1500s, equinoxes were drifting, so Pope Gregory XIII introduced a reform. That’s how we got the Gregorian calendar, which most of the world still uses today.
This shift disconnected us from lunar time entirely, replacing nature’s rhythms with a fixed, solar structure tied to religious holidays and colonial agendas.
Lunisolar Calendars: The Best of Both Worlds
Some cultures—like the Chinese, Hebrew, and traditional Celtic—refused to lose the moon entirely. They adopted lunisolar calendars, blending the cycles of the sun and moon. These systems included leap months to realign lunar and solar time.
The Pagan Wheel of the Year also reflects this harmony, anchoring moon phases with solar festivals like solstices, equinoxes, and cross-quarter days.
You’ll find these influences alive in the Planets and Purpose Lunar/Solar Hybrid Calendar—a modern tool with ancient roots.
Time, Tech & the Feminine Reawakening
In our current age of digital everything—where AI, automation, and remote work reign—it’s easier than ever to unhook from the rigid 9-to-5. The shift of Uranus in Taurus and the recent Saturn cycles have disrupted how we relate to time, work, and worth.
Remember the office setup of the '80s? Filing cabinets, fax machines, corded phones. Now, most of us can run a business from a laptop—and yes, only the government still uses fax machines, lol.
So why not reclaim a time system that supports the feminine? One that recognizes our inner and outer cycles?
Feminine Timekeeping Is Natural Timekeeping
Here’s something that gets buried in the modern hustle:
Women aren’t meant to be the same every day.
We can't cold plunge, run 30 minutes, and eat the same two eggs every single day of our cycle. And we shouldn’t have to. We are not machines. We cycle. We ebb and flow. And when we force linear productivity on cyclical bodies, it leads to burnout and dis-ease.
Many women now work full-time, raise children, run households—and are expected to do it all in a world that refuses to honor their natural rhythm.
Perhaps we can reclaim the lunar way, or at least become aware of it.
Let your energy vary. Be wildly productive one day and need deep rest the next. This isn’t weakness. It’s wisdom.
Return to Lunar Time
More and more people are returning to lunar calendars to reconnect with intuition, rest cycles, and ancestral timekeeping.
Digital and printed tools like the Lunar-Solar Hybrid Calendar offer a way to remember what our grandmothers knew:
Time is alive. Sacred. Connected to Earth and sky.
🌙 You can find your printed or digital calendar here →