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interesting subject - it's rolled around in my skull for a few years now, mostly in connection with the calendar i've developed.
the idea is to create a calendar to replace the Gregorian as the international standard.
i've based a 13 month calendar on the relative amount of daylight - in the illustrations below, the Summer Solstice is completely white, the Winter Solstice, completely black, and the rest of the days incrementally grey (for latitude 49).
The Year begins on the Solstice (Winter in the North, Summer in the South). Here's the comparison:
Northern Hemisphere - Year by Daylight
Southern Hemisphere - Year by Daylight
one waxes while the other wanes.
This calendar has become the focus of my works/practice, here's hoping it may serve you well.
btw dividing the year in this fashion also places each of the 8 spokes of the Wheel of the Year 45 Days apart from one another.
this may be a useful tool in synchronising activities between both hemispheres - although, the interactivity between the two has yet to reveal itself.
In terms of geography, the convention with which I had become accustomed places North at the top, East to the right, South at the bottom, and West to the right.
The Chinese place South at the bottom, East to the left, and so on.
I've seen maps of the globe where the South is at the top, and the North at the bottom, and i spend days trying to find peace with this distorted view of my world.
is there a convention used in the Southern Hemisphere along any of these lines? Particularly as the 4 directions play such a key role in so many aspects of one's practice.
any word from South of the Tropic of Capricorn?
how does the world look from there?
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