Starting a petition for natural time for the end of the gregorian calendar, and the reinstatement of the 13 month, 28 day calendar also known as the 13 moon calendar. I typed this from my 13 moon calendar.... The World's current standard calendar is the Gregorian calendar, named for Pope Gregory XIII. It's 12 unevenly numbered months of 28, 29, 30 and 31 days do not correspond to each other, the length of the weeks, or any other cycles of nature. As an arbitrary division of the solar year, this calendar, although illogical, unscientific and artificial, remains the central unquestioned institution of our modern society. In Time Measurement and Calendar Construction, Broughton Richmond writes, "If the Julian/Gregorian calendar was to be offered as a new device for measuring time, we, with our present knowledge and state of living, would reject it as something utterly impractical, lacking in harmony and order, unbalanced and irregular, too clumsy a calendar to make calculations by..." The 12 month calendar, in combination with the 60 minute clock, produces an artificial timing frequency known as the 12:60. This mechanization of time has entranced humanity into a collective disassociation from our true nature and the inherent sacredness of all life. Time, the eternal canvas of now, ripe with unquantifiable potential, has been distorted and disguised by the quantification and commodificaiton of time. Our global paradigm is now driven by an outlook of materialism that is epitomized by slogans such as "time is money." Dr. Jose Arguelies explains: "It is the artificial timing frequency that is governing the whole of globalization or global civilization......with an irregular and irrational calendar, we are programmed for irrationality: irrational laws, irrational customs.... We are the only people with writs watches and the only people destroying our environment. There is a connection.... As long as we are living on the timing frequency we are going to go farther and farther away from the universal natural cycles. As we go further away, we get out of touch with our own nature and we get out of touch with the Great Nature..." To Measure the year's solar cycle in terms of natural logic, is to use a 13-moon/ 28-day calendar. Our 52-week year divides perfectly into 13 even months of 4 weeks each. Perpetual and harmonic, this ancient and cross-cultural system of time-keeping entrains our mind, body, and spirit with the natural cyclical experience of time. The sense of regularity it establishes provides a supportive foundation upon which to increasingly cultivate our abilities to be in tune with jour own inherent sense of timing. The ongoing development of this self-referential wisdom guides us to be increasingly in phase with the natural order of the living universe. The 13-moon calendar models the harmony of nature. In the time it takes our Earth to orbit the sun once, our moon has orbited us 13 times. What is commonly known as the lunar cycle is the synodic cycle of 29.5 days (new moon to new moon). The moon's sidereal cycle is just over 27 days (when it reappears in the same place in the sky). The 28-day month is the average measure of these two lunar cycles, producing a biologically accurate solar-lunar calendar. 13x28=364. The 365th day (always July 25th) is called the "day of out time" because it is no day of the week or month at all. In the spirit of festival, this internationally celebrated holiday promotes themes of forgiveness, atonement, artistic celebration of life, community, "peace through culture," and "time is art." The day of out time is now an official holiday in over 70 brazilian cities alone, including Sao Paulo, the 2nd largest city in the world! CHANGING THE CALENDAR TO A SYSTEM OF HARMONY IS UNITING PEOPLE ALL AROUND THE PLANET, TRANSCENDING BOUNDARIES OF NATION OR RELIGION, AS A GLOBAL CULTURE OF PEACE. The World 13 moon calendar change peace movement has now spread across 6 continents, active in over 90 countries. WELCOME TO THE NEW TIME! An Ancient, Universal, Harmonic Measure of the Year. Followed for over 5500 years, the 13 moon calendar is a universal reflection of perfect harmony primordially appearing in virtually all human cultures. The Lakota kept a 13 moon, 28 day count based on the "keya', or turtle, since the turtle has 13 scales on its back. The Essenes, Druids, Egyptians, Polynesians, Chinese, Maya, Inca, and several Native American tribes, all used a 13 month, 28 day calendar, and many are still using it today. The 13 moon calendar has been formally proposed as a preferred alternative to the gregorian calendar since 1849, The League of Nations had scheduled to change the world standard calendar in 1933, to a 13 month, 28 day calendar, preferring its logic and regularity. This reform was strategically blocked by massive religious objection from representatives of the Catholic Church, the very source of the gregorian calendar, who made subjective claim that the break in the 7 day week for the 365th day of the year would anger God and cause "chaos, barbarism and war". Recognizing our world to be currently saturated in chaos, barbarism and war, we advocate global calendar change to a 13-Moon Harmonic Standard as an instrument of Planetary Peace.