for many years now, i have been working on a project. this project is to do with the moon. before we followed the colonizer's calendar, we had a lunisolar calendar unique to our culture and perspective. i wish to modernize this calendar and create a version practical for everyday use.
here you may find my backerkit project preview page, currently planned for kickoff in may of next year.
years ago, i began drawing a yearly page in my bullet journal which had the dates for solstices, equinoxes, and cross-quarter days, as well as the dates for the moon phases marked on it. i'm not exactly certain how long i've been doing this for, but it's been a while now. in the last handful of years, i've done a bit of digging into the the way we used to name the moons. it became clear to me very quickly, due to the existence of a leap month, that we likely had a lunisolar calendar. while i appreciate Gíihlgiigaa Tsíits Gitanee's calendar work, i'm not certain that the way he has arranged the months makes much sense for traditional life. why would we have exactly 28 day months, as opposed to following the moon? why have a leap month and a leap day? with a lunisolar calendar, you have leap months in only the years where they are needed to keep months lined up with the seasons, and many of the years have only twelve, which makes more sense with the story of six summer and six winter moons.
please find here a record of the sources i refer to for this work.