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“Time
has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set
us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment
and exhilaration." ~~ Kahlil Gibran ~~ |
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Occasionally, you will
run into an RDG or OMS document that has some strange annotations
to it, in the form of something like:
“Adopted this 87th day of Samradh, B.G.R. 04.” This is a date. The same date might also be recorded: 87 Samradh B4. But what's up with that? Welcome to the Druish calendar system, as used within the Reformed Druids movement. |
We don't really know a whole lot about the origins of the RDNA calendar. We assume it was a project of a long winter's weekend, probably when the television was out. No doubt a certain amount of whisky was consumed, or maybe they were smoking pot. We just don't know, and the ARDA doesn't say, or give credit. But this business of creating new calendars to signify new epochs of Druidism began with the Druids at Carleton. |
Years among the RDNA at Carleton are dated from the first official Reformed Druid service at Carleton in May 1963. Arch-Druid Robert Larson, who founded Berkeley Grove (NRDNA) in 1968 after leaving Carleton in 1965, chose to follow the Celtic custom and dated the First Year of the Reform to the Samhain (Nov. 1st) of 1962. The Gaian Reform, which began with the birth of the Reformed Druids of Gaia, also gave birth to a new epoch. Thus the year beginning the day after Samhain 2006, is the First Year of the Gaian Reform, or “1 Y.G.R.” and the year running from the day after Samhain 2007 to the day before Samhain 2008 is really 2 Y.G.R., etc. Naturally the years run backwards as well. Fortunately, unlike the civil calendar, the Druid calendar has a Zero date (Samhain 2006) which belongs to neither the Years of the Gaian Reform (Y.G.R.) nor the years Before the Gaian Reform (B.G.R.). |
The
calendar is divided into 4 seasons, each of which consists of about
91 (+ or -) days (depending). The seasons are: |
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Each
season is divided up into three months, which correspond to the
regular secular months: |
| The months of Geimredh are: |
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| The months of Earrach are: |
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| The months of Samradh are: |
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| The months of Foghamhar are: |
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| (Click on any of the above to take you to that month as rendered this year.) |
| The weeks begin on Monday and end with Sunday, and are rendered in the Welsh language. The days of the week and their Druish correspondences are: |
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The Druish correspondences come from various "Celtic" tree calendars. *Because the Coast Redwood is sacred to the OMS, we took Saturday for the Sequoia Sempervirons. |
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