What is the Lunar Calendar? In the past, just as today, measuring time was a vitally important thing. As people got situated, they began to look to the stars, they began to observe – and one of the things they observed is how the moon changes phases. Based on this, some civilizations created calendars that followed two things – the phases of the moon, and the seasons around them. Lunar phases (or lunations) form what we today call synodic months (the word “month” coming from the Germanic word for moon) – and there are roughly 12 synodic months in a … Continue reading A History of the Lunar Calendar