Lunation Calendar — Overview

A physical calendar for reading time as a cycle rather than a grid.

The Lunation Calendar is designed to help you live in closer relation to the cycles of the Moon, Earth, and Sun. It is being developed as both a practical companion and a ritual object: precise, beautiful, and grounded in the living sky.

Folded Lunation Calendar prototype beside a circular year chart and a Wolf Moon chart crossed by a burgundy thread marker. — The folded prototype, year chart, lunation chart, and thread marker shown together. The package is from the 2026 prototype; the 2027 Amsterdam edition is currently in development.

What it is

The Lunation Calendar is a set of circular charts organized by lunation. The Year Chart begins at the start of one Wolf Moon lunation and ends before the start of the next. The set includes a Lunation Chart for every lunation on the Year Chart. It also includes the additional Lunation Charts needed to span the complete calendar year.

Around those circles, the charts bring together lunar phase, dates, moon and sun elevation, zodiac position, rare events, seasonal markers, and the visible appearance of the Moon.

The calendar offers precise sky information and symbolic reference points, but it leaves interpretation open. It gives form to recurring patterns while leaving room for your own systems of meaning, practice, and attention.

A complete prototype calendar set arranged in a circle around its folded package, with the year chart in front. — One circular chart for each lunation surrounds the folded prototype, making the lunar rhythm of the year visible at a glance.

Who it’s for

The Lunation Calendar is for people who want a more direct relationship with celestial time.

It may be especially at home with artists, astrologers, ritual practitioners, designers, observers of the sky, and anyone drawn to moon-first ways of orienting themselves in the world.

Format

It is a physical printed calendar, but not a standard grid calendar or a conventional planner. It is a set of circular charts meant to be handled, laid out, and returned to on a table, altar, desk, or other working surface.

It can support planning and reflection, but it is not designed with boxes for appointments or tasks. Its primary purpose is orientation: noticing recurring sky patterns and returning attention to the shape of the year.

Prototype package opened to reveal a circular Wolf Moon chart and a printed link to the reading guide. — The circular charts nest inside the folded package, alongside a route into the reading guide.

Close view of a Wolf Moon prototype chart with a burgundy thread running from its center across the dated rings and Moon phases. — A thread marker can follow one moment from the chart’s center through the surrounding scales.

Astrology and interpretation

You do not need to know astrology to use the calendar. It can support astrological or symbolic use, but it is also useful as a way to observe lunar phases, seasons, sky paths, and recurring celestial cycles.

The Lunation Calendar uses the tropical zodiac. Zodiac positions are included as symbolic reference points along the ecliptic, not as a claim that the visible constellations have the same boundaries.

The calendar does not tell you what the patterns mean. It gives you precise sky information and symbolic reference points so you can bring your own systems of meaning, practice, and attention.

First edition

The first edition is specific to Amsterdam because many sky relationships are local. Moonrise, elevation, and the visible character of the sky depend on place.

The lunar phase cycle and many symbolic readings still apply elsewhere, but local sky details are designed for Amsterdam. Future editions may be developed for other locations.

Circular 2026 prototype Year Chart with concentric colored rings for lunations, seasons, dates, and zodiac positions. — A prototype Year Chart gathers lunation names, seasonal markers, dates, and zodiac relationships into a single annual cycle.

The first Amsterdam edition is currently in development. Planned contents include:

14 Lunation Charts, spanning the complete 2027 calendar year
1 Year Chart
a reading guide

Details may continue to evolve during development. The calendar is not available yet; subscribe for occasional updates, including launch and availability announcements.