Begin Anew with the Moon!
As a precursor to 3 Day New Year/Solstice Celebratio,Year 2 (2019 or 5916 Magoma Era), Mago Academy invites you from around the globe to the virtual midnight vigil to the New Year. The New Year’s Day falls on Dec. 18 in the Magoist Calendar.
When Dec. 17, Midnight PST USA or Your local midnight time. Begin the New Year with the music of the Korean temple bell designed to reenact the music of the whale. And Dec. 17 is the annual leap day, one extra day to make a year 365 days in the 13 month 28 day calendar. Check out how regular and simple a month and a year of the Magoist Calendar are (in comparison with the Gregorian Calendar that has some months for 30 days and others for 31 days with the month of Feb. 28 or 29 days) in Mago Almanac: 13 Month 28 Day Calendar.
See the excerpt on Mago Almanac below:
https://www.magoism.net/…/mago-almanac-excerpt-1-introduci…/
How We are in the Original Mother Time! Stay awake to meet the New Year of 5916 Magoma Era or Year 2 in the reconstructed Magoist Calendar! Cleanse your body and mind. Return things that you used or borrowed from others. Be tuned with all beings in WE/HERE/NOW.
We will play the Emile Bell (the Divine Bell of the Great Seongdeok King) 28 times via Google Hangouts and provide the concise reading on “Why the whale bell?”. If you want to participate in this event, email Dr. Hwang (magoism@gmail.com) with “Midnight Vigil” stated in the Subject and introduce yourself briefly (where you are located, city/country/continent, your interest in the Magoist Calendar, your blog/website etc.). She will invite you to Google Hangouts. Or she will provide the audio/video and the reading so that you can hold a virtual midnight vigil for your own audience.
Why sounding the Korean temple bell? That is because, among others, it opens up a profound vision of whales whose songs maintain the sonic balance of the earth with the cosmic music (my forthcoming essays will explicate on the topic). In short, the Korean bell mimicking whales reenacts the Magoist Cosmogony, WE/HERE/NOW. Patriarchal times, fragmented and misleading in nature, are shattered and kept at bay.
Why 28 times? It is a number that traditional Koreans have preserved, indicating the 28 days of a month in the 13 Month 28 Day Magoist Calendar, the monthly lunar-menstrual journey in the universe. In the Magoist Calendar, a year has 13 months and a month 28 days! The Moon completes orbiting the Earth on her own axis in approximately 28 days. She also revolves around the Earth in 28 days on average, measured by the time calculated by the standpoint of far distant stars (sidereal time). That makes 13 months (364 days), one year. Yet, we have 365 days on average by the Earth’s revolution of the Sun. Thus, we have a leap day (one extra day) every year, which comes right before the New Year Day in the reconstructed Magoist Calendar. Put differently, the Moon moves about 28 degrees (360 degrees divided by 13 months) every month in the sky and returns to where she was to make a new revolution on the New Year’s Day. If we follow the Moon, we will be guided by her and will travel the whole universe within a year. That is what the 13 month Magoist Calendar is about. And the lunar journey is taking place within a woman’s body, most vividly through the menstruation. Read Mago Almanac: 13 Month 28 Day Calendar (Free download code will be announced on the midnight vigil, to be available for 24 hours thereafter).
We have seen that the Korean temple bell was designed to reenact the Magoist Cosmogony. Invoking the self-creative power embedded in all beings, the bell channels the self-generating movement of the cosmic music, Yulryeo (Rhythms and Tones), HERE/NOW. Cast in the form of a female body, the bell has the dragon in its head (Yongnyu, the Dragon Loop) known as Poroe (Pulao in Chinese). The dragon is there not only to be the loop for hanging the bell but also to envelop the sound tube (Yongtong or Eumtong). The sound tube is a feature that remains debated over its function, possibly representing the tusk of a narwal, while distinguishing Korean temple bells from their Chinese and Japanese counterparts. That said, there is a yet undergirding theme in the bell to surface, the whale. For those who seek closely, the whale is recognizable as a whale-shaped wooden mallet. A whale-shaped wooden mallet is designed to strike the body of the bell. However, that is only a tip of the whale implication of the bell. A whale is the model that the bell takes after especially for its music. The song of the bells is meant to be a replica of the song of whales to be heard in land as in water. Pre-human in origin on the terrestrial land, whales are the non-human messenger of the Creatrix, Mago. In folk traditions, riding the back of a whale is euphemized as the ascension to Heaven, the Creatrix. Summarily, whales hold key to the inter-cosmic reality that Magoism advocates. It is no coincidence that the bell is called such cetacean names as Janggyeong (長鯨 Eternal Whale), Gyeongjong (鯨鐘 Whale Bell), Hwagyeong (華鯨 Splendid Whale), and Geogyeong (巨鯨 Gigantic Whale). Tapping into the whale bridges time and space beyond the human kind. The bell summons the boundless reality of WE/HERE/NOW. (An introductory part from “Whale and the Korean Temple Bell” by Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, forthcoming)
Go to Participation Manual Here.
Year 2 (2019 or 5916 Magoma Era) 3 Day New Year/Solstice Celebration
Mother Time Restored in Mago Almanac: 13 Month 28 Day Calendar (Book A) Volume 1 and 2.
Theme Marking A New Beginning in Mother Time
When Dec. 20, 21, and 22 (Time and date may vary according to your local time).
Why these 3 Days? We begin a new tradition according to the 13 Month Magoist Calendar. Tune in with Mother Time in Mago Almanac: 13 Month 28 Day Calendar (Book A) Volume 2. Dec. 18 is the New Year according to the 13 Month Magoist Calendar and Dec. 22 is Winter Solstice. New Year on the new moon before the December Solstice.
- Day 1 (Dec. 20 Thursday): Online Book & Art Fair (Coming in a separate post)
- Day 2 (Dec. 21 Friday): Online Goddess Icon Exhibit (Coming in a separate post)
- Day 3 (Day 22 Saturday): Sharing the Vision of the Mago Work, video/audio conversations with Mago Scholars by Dr. Helen Hwang (Featuring Anna Tzanova, Wendy Stiver, and possibly Amina Rodriguez and Sumaiyah Yeats). Up to 5 persons can be invited as audience discussant. 3PM PST USA. If you want to join us and ask about what Magoist Studies is and Mago Scholars, please email Dr. Hwang (magoism@gmail.com) with “Day 3 Mago Scholars Conversation) so that she can invite you to Google Hangouts.