Luna Press Calendar

One of my favourite rituals for the turning of the year is beginning a new Luna Press Calendar.

Dedicated to the Goddess in Her many guises, it is a work of art, a labour of love, that ruins you forever for any other calendar.

It reminds me that time is spiral, not square.

It charts the year in 13 lunations - moon cycles - rather than the conventional 12 months of the Gregorian calendar. Shows each one in spiral patterns of days of the moon, with the times of rising and setting. And a wealth of other information, art, goddess-lore.

The cover image for 2009, is Prithvi (protectress), by artist Jamie Hogan. Golds, reds and oranges that make me think of an Indian wedding sari. It shows a goddess with the body of a tiger, and two heads - one, crowned, at the front, and a smaller one looking backwards, on the tail.

The artist says:

I wanted to celebrate an earthy goddess with animal instincts, strong and statuesque, calm but able to protect the earth during all its cataclysmic changes. The head on the Goddess' tail signifies multiple powers of perception. We too need to look ahead and back, while being open to Her strength in all its forms.

See it on the Luna Press site.