On this page, you will find Calendar trickery in CFS quackery. May 12 in our Gregorian Calendar (May 12 being a special day to the CFS community) in fact refers to May 15 in the Julian Calendar, the Day of Mercury (Mercury being the Deity of both the Calendar and Quackery).
[INFO]   Find a Calendar

Type a specific year to find Gregorian and Julian Calendars.
  • Find a Calendar.
    Year.* AD BC
    *Insert a number or type 'last', 'this', or 'next' for last year, this year, or next year calendar.

    •     Calendar Trickery

    Shifting Julian and Gregorian Calendars allow calendar trickery (double agenda). Important years are 495 BC, 45 BC, AD 1, AD 200, AD 300, AD 325, AD 1582, AD 1700, AD 1800, and AD 1900. Since a date in one calendar does correspond to another date in another calendar, dates may in fact hide events instead of refer to events. This kind of magic is important in brainwashing techniques, business, commercials, cults, movies, mythologies, news reports, politics, pseudo-science, quackery, religion, revolutions, and wars. Most people are not aware of this - they think such dates are real instead. They believe that events actually happened on a specific date.

    This is how calendar trickery works...
  • Jump at year Y1 from calendar C1 to calendar C2 and find date D2 corresponding to date D1 in C1.
  • Travel back (or forward) in time to date D2 in calendar C2 in year Y2.
  • Jump back in year Y2 from date D2 to date D3 in calendar C1. Since the two calendars are shifting relative to each other, there is no relation between date D1 and date D3: Date D1 has been introduced only to hide date D3.
  • This procedure can be repeated several times and there might be no jumping back to C1. Also, calendar C1 does not have to be the Gregorian Calendar: the imput date D1 may even be a Gregorian/Julian date in the Julian/Gregorian Calendar.
  • Relations between astrology and dates are valid only in the Gregorian Calendar. In astrology, calendar tricks usually refer to the two constellations Dog: date D1 refers to Mercury (the Greater Dog and the Deity of the Calendar) and date D3 to Apollo (the Lesser Dog and the Deity of Time).
  • Examples.

    •     Gregorian Calendar [GC]
  • The Gregorian Calendar is the official calendar since October 15, 1582 [GC].
  • The Gregorian Calendar corresponds to the tropical year - and to a less extent to the siderial year.
  • Rules.
    • Rule 1. Calendar years exactly divisible by 4 are leap years (366 days instead of 365).
    • Rule 2. Rule 1 is not valid for calendar years exactly divisible by 100.
    • Rule 3. Rule 2 is not valid for calendar years exactly divisible by 400.
    • Rule 4. April 18, 1582 [GC] is Easter Day.
      • because April 18, 325 [JC] would have been Easter Day if the rules, proclaimed in 325 [JC] by the First Council of Nicaea (see below), had already been effective that year (historically, these were effective as of 326 [JC]).
  • For historical dates, the day the Gregorian Calendar was adopted is important.
  • The tables also list the Gregorian calendar prior to October 15, 1582 (alternate colour): the Proleptic Gregorian Calendar.
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        Julian Calendar [JC]
  • The Julian Calendar is the official calendar from January 1, 45 BC to October 4, 1582.
  • The Julian Calendar was revised on March 1, 8 AD when Emperor Augustus moved the last day of February (February 29 or February 30 for leap years) to August 31.
  • The Julian Calendar does not correspond to the siderial year.
  • Rule.
    • Calendar years exactly divisible by 4 are leap years (366 days instead of 365).
  • For historical dates, the day the Julian Calendar was adopted and abolished is important.
  • The Roman Calendar was aligned to the Julian Calendar in 1 BC and not in 45 BC due to a triennial instead of a quadrennial leap year cycle (the Leap Year Error in the Roman Calendar).
    • 45 BC, 42 BC, 39 BC, 36 BC, 33 BC, 30 BC, 27 BC, 24 BC, 21 BC, 18 BC, 15 BC, and 12 BC are Roman Calendar leap years instead of 45 BC, 41 BC, 37 BC, 33 BC, 29 BC, 25 BC, 21 BC, 17 BC, and 13 BC Julian Calendar leap years - so there have been 3 leap years too many in the Roman Calendar relative to the Julian Calendar between 45 BC and 9 BC.
    • Augustian reform: 9 BC, 5 BC, and 1 BC are no Roman Calendar leap years so AD 4 was the first quadrennial leap year and AD 1 is identical in both Julian and Roman calendars. However, there still is some disagreement about the actual Roman Calendar leap years prior to March 1, AD 4.
  • The tables in this programme list Julian Calendar defined in 45 BC [JC], characterized by quadrennial leap years. Prior to 45 BC [JC], the Julian Calendar is called the Proleptic Julian Calendar (alternate colour). However, the Roman Calendar Epoch of the Julian Calendar is also considered Proleptic Julian Calendar due to the calendar uncertainty prior to March 1, AD 8.
  • In the early Julian Calendar, a bissextile day was inserted between February 23 en 24; later the leap day moved to February 29 (this version is listed in the tables).
  • The Masonic Calendar is the Julian Calendar with 4000 added to the year number (Anno Lucis).
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        Calendar Shifting

    Calendar shifting is important in calendar trickery.
  • Easter date shift between 325 [JC] and 1582 [GC] is 10 days. By definition, 325 [JC] (when the Easter date was defined by the First Council of Nicaea) and 1582 [GC] are equal. In both calendars, Easter Day (the first Sunday on or after Full Moon after the Vernal Equinox) being April 18. [Click here for source - α being the Right Ascension].
  • Seasonal (leap year) shift between 325 [JC] and 1582 [GC] is 9 days (500, 600, 700, 900, 1000, 1100, 1300, 1400, 1500 are no Gregorian leap years) - so an additional day has been added to the Gregorian Calendar (to fit the days of the week). Seasons follow the Gregorian Calendar and although 300 [JC] is a leap year and 300 [GC] is not, the time difference between the 325 [JC] and 1582 [GC] Vernal Equinoxes being just 12 hours.
  • The Gregorian Calendar counts faster than the Julian Calendar since the Gregorian year is shorter than the Julian year.
    • Prior to March 1, 200 [GC and JC] Gregorian days are ahead of Julian days for a specific date, and Gregorian dates are earlier than Julian dates for a specific day number.
    • Both calendars are identical from March 1, 200 [GC and JC] to February 28, 300 [GC and JC]. Day numbers in both calendars are identical for a specific date, and dates are identical for a specific day number.
    • After February 28, 300 [GC and JC] Julian days are ahead of the Gregorian days for a specific date, and Julian dates are earlier than Gregorian dates for a specific day number.
  • Day Number.
    • Day #1 is defined March 1, AD 200 [GC and JC] - the first day both calendars are equal.
    • The value of Day #0 for a specific month is listed in the calendar: add the date to obtain the Day Number. In the hypertext version, Day Numbers are present under the mouse cursor.
    • In both Julian and Gregorian Calendars, Year 0 does not exist.
    • Both Julian and Gregorian years starting on January 1. However, the Year Numbers did not.
    • Dates characterized by the same Day Number in both calendars are identical.
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        Astrometry and Astrology

    Annual events in astrometry and their astrological interpretations.
  • January 1 [GC] (approx.)
  • March 21 [GC] (approx.)
    • Astrometry: Vernal equinox (αSun = 0 h).
  • June 21 [GC] (approx.)
  • July 2 [GC] (approx.)
    • Astrometry: Heliacal rising of Sirius (αSun = αSirius = 6 h 45 min 9 sec).
    • Astrology: Beginning of Egyptian Year, Revolution. 'Calendar girl': Isis/Sopdet .
  • September 22 [GC] (approx.)
    • Astrometry: Autumnal equinox (αSun = 12 h).
  • November 30 to December 18 [GC] (approx.)
  • December 21 [GC] (approx.)

    •     Internal Navigation

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  • Year
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  • Month
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  • Day
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        Links

    The links below might be interesting.
  • Calendar Converter
  • Calendar Era
  • Common years starting on Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Saturday / Sunday
  • Leap years starting on Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Saturday / Sunday
  • Julian Calendar
  • Roman Calendar
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