Orbital Calendrics

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The Orbital Calendar’s
intro to Orbital Calendrics:

Galactic Family Tree ( a sweet little graphic)

How to view this time-space map:

The background image shows the center portion of Milky Way Galaxy, a near-infrared composite made by NASA/DIRBE-COBE Project. It is a view looking toward the constellation of Sagittarius - currently the direction in which the center of the galaxy lies. Overlaying the Milky Way image is an image of Sun made by John Gregory Hanses.
Just to confirm - we do not yet have any craft that has gone out as far as the two images combined might imply to create this angle of view . The image of Sun would be much too large relatively in any case. What this combined images and design does do for us however is allow us the understanding that as the Milky Way Galaxy, seen here on a horizontal plane from a side view, slowly revolves around itself, our solar system revolves in a comparatively perpendicular plane(actual degrees off of galactic plane is approx. ).

The orbital paths of the other planets of our Solar System are shown. . Each planet is located monthly or quarterly at its heliocentric longitude (location in relation to Sun). To get a real feel about where each is at the beginning of each month, you could use some circular labels placed on the poster to mark each one and then move them next month to the next spot.

You will also notice that in the time of one “earth year” that it takes Earth to go once around Sun, the two planets closest to Sun revolve around Sun more often; Mercury about 4.5 times and Venus about 1.75 times. Now you can see why these planets have what is called a retrograde motion and look like to us from on Earth that they are going “backwards”.... well of course they are not, but we are moving at different rates.

Beginning with the Millennium 2001 Orbital Calendar poster I include the Mayan glyphs marking their system of 18 months and 5 weeks of 4 days each, color coded as they had done. The Mayan Indians of Central America had developed the most accurate time keeping system ever recorded by history, so we thought we would honor that and include them here. Please check the Mayan section for research data.

The Constellations:

When you take notice of the constellations on the outermost band, you will see that the dates given are not the same as directly across from them on the earth-based calendar portion. The constellations of stars are shown in correct heliocentric (sun, centered) longitude of time-space; the dates however refer to the time on Earth at which Sun appears to go in front of each.
To clarify: dates are given in astronomical terms as set forth by the International Astronomical Union in 1928 ( and therefore do not correspond to the conceptual dating system known in astrology).

Each day's location and the phases of the moon are shown relative to the 13 ecliptic constellations;
the heliocentric location of each of the solar system’s other planets are also shown, including Chiron and Ceres.

Pattern becomes apparent - we can see the almost 13 complete moon cycles repeating itself, in a 365-day solar year; and the standard 12 months are apparent side-by-side, color-coded for easy readability.

The Mayan traditional glyphs representing each day are displayed in their 13-day cyclic stair-step pattern, never quite repeating itself (GMS correlation).

All astronomic data have been reviewed by Guy Ottewell, Author of The ; the Mayan calendrics have been researched using GMT (Goodman -Martinez-Thompson) Correlation confirmed by John Major Jenkins, an independent archeologist and highly original decoder of the remarkable work of the Mayans on the Nature of TIME. Further tested by Richard Crutchfield, PhD, geomancer-dowser for sacred accuracy - it dowses out 5 miles!

Richard Crutchfield, Phd., researcher of the geomantic nature of sacred sites says of the poster,
"The Orbital Calendar Time-Space Poster is associated with a kind of subtle but powerful energy field that...displays a certain energy configuration that appears to be characteristic of places, objects and activities long considered to be sacred and powerful. The origin of this sacred energy seems to be beyond our galaxy (Hunab Ku) and the Orbital Calendar serves as a channel for this energy."

Orbital Calendar Guidebook:
A Brief Road Map Of Our Place in Time-Space

A Note to the Gentle Reader:

About 30% of Americans with high school diplomas are not sure the earth goes around the Sun (Gallup). The Orbital Calendar brings the relationship personally alive and immediate on an everyday basis.

Two goals are at the forefront of the development of this project:

local system geo-spatial map literacy, and,
increased awareness of each person’s kinship with the planetary community.

The following compilation of 'info-bits', suggestions and questions are offered as a take-off point from which to make your own discoveries.

Major concepts are introduced using the map/calendar to demonstrate space-time relationships, using the human body to describe planetary movements, and using cultural history to create an interpretive context.

A Note on Vocabulary and Color:

Throughout this guidebook we use some of the terminology illuminated by Buckminster Fuller, that consummate, prolific genius of the 20th century. Bucky recognized and validated Earth as a living, sentient being, no less an individual than our ships and dogs to which we accord the honor of recognition as individuals. We concur.

In this text Earth, Moon, Sun and Universe are spoken of as proper nouns ( i.e. without the article "the" prefacing them, which is otherwise used to label inanimate objects.)

Something about color:

Color has been used symbolically, and for consistency to represent the three main celestial bodies:

- Green, for the planet Earth, and the cultural events celebrated by the human inhabitants of Earth;

- Blue, for Moon and the time of her phases as seen from Earth; and

- Orange, for the interaction of Earth and Sun: The radiating lines separating the days, the Solstices and Equinoxes.

The specific colors used in the Mayan day symbols are taken from a watercolor reproduction of the Three room temple at Bonampak, done by Antonio Tejuda at Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology.

Galactic Family Tree