Begin Anew with the Moon! As a precursor to 3 Day New Year/Solstice Celebration, Year 4 (2021 CE or 5918 Magoma Era), Mago Academy and Mt. Shasta Goddess Temple invite you from around the globe to the virtual midnight vigil to the New Year. The New Year’s Day falls on Dec. 17 in the Magoist Calendar.
When Dec. 16, 2020 Midnight PST USA or Your local midnight time. Begin the New Year with the song of the Korean temple bell designed to reenact the music of the whale. And Dec. 16 is the annual leap day, one of the two extra days to make a year 366 days for Year 4 in the 13 month 28 day Magoist Calendar.
The Whale Bell Striking on Dec. 16 Midnight is free for the public. Join us at 11:50 PM on Dec. 16 and meet the New Year on Dec. 17 by the Whale Bell ringing (for 20 min).
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 Planner below:
(Book Excerpt 1) Mago Almanac Planner for Personal Journey by Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D.
- Join the Zoom Meeting Live co-hosted by Yeshe Matthews, Mt Shasta Goddess Temple, free for the public
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Here is the World Clock you can check your time! https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
https://zoom.us/j/5103557912 (Password GODDESS)
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- The Mago Way, Mt. Shasta Goddess Temple App.
https://goddesstemple.disciplemedia.com/groups/magoway
- The Facebook Group, Nine Mago Celebrations (If you want to join live by video, audio, or phone, refer to below the Zoom Meeting Live.)
What to bring
Prepare and bring a sound of joy or words to say out loud so that we can all say it together! For example, “Love and light for Year 4!,” “The Whale Divine,” “Patriarchy loses!” and so forth.
Virtual Midnight Vigil is celebrated as part of 3 Day New Year-Solstice Celebration, free upon registration. You will receive the PDF book of Mago Almanac Planner Year 4 for free. Register here.
We are in the Original Mother Time! Stay awake to meet the New Year of 5918 Magoma Era or Year 4 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 Divine Bell of the Great Seongdeok King 28 times and provide the concise reading on “Why the whale bell?” and “Magoist Cetaceanism and the Korean Temple Bell.” 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 ongoing 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.
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 “Whales and the Korean Temple Bell” by Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, forthcoming) Read more on the Cetacean Code of the Korean Temple Bell and Magoist Cetaceanism below: https://www.magoism.net/2019/06/bell-essay-9-the-magoist-whale-bell-decoding-the-cetacean-code-of-korean-temple-bells-by-helen-hye-sook-hwang-ph-d/ https://www.magoism.net/2019/10/essay-1-magoist-cetaceanism-and-the-myth-of-the-pacifying-flute-manpasikjeok-by-helen-hye-sook-hwang-ph-d/
Year 4 (5918 Magoma Era or 2020) 3 Day New Year/Solstice Celebration
Mother Time Restored in Mago Almanac: 13 Month 28 Day Calendar.