Lunar Calendar
Designed for use with a Forgotten Realms Campaign
(Lunar calendar where year is divisible by four with remainder of .25)
- Full Moon - The moon's illuminated side is facing the planet. The moon appears to be completely illuminated by direct sunlight.
- First Quarter - One-half of the moon appears to be illuminated by direct sunlight. The fraction of the moon's disk that is illuminated is increasing.
- New Moon - The moon's unilluminated side is facing the planet. The moon is not visible (except during a solar eclipse).
- Last Quarter - One-half of the moon appears to be illuminated by direct sunlight. The fraction of the moon's disk that is illuminated is decreasing.
(Lunar calendar where year is divisible by four with remainder of .25)
1
20:37:30
8
11:15:00
16
23
01:52:30
16:30:00
Midwinter
Midwinter - Nobles and monarchs greet the halfway point of winter with a feast day they call the High Festival of Winter. Traditionally it's the best day to make or renew alliances. The common folk enjoy the celebration a bit less—among them it's called Dead-winter Day, noted mainly as the halfway point of winter, with hard times still to come.
(Lunar calendar where year is divisible by four with remainder of .25)
1
07:07:30
9
21:45:00
16
12:22:30
24
03:00:00
(Lunar calendar where year is divisible by four with remainder of .25)
1
17:37:00
9
08:15:00
17
19
Spring
Equinox
22:52:30
24
13:30:00
(Lunar calendar where year is divisible by four with remainder of .25)
2
04:07:30
9
18:45:00
17
09:22:30
25
Greengrass
00:00:00
Greengrass - The official beginning of spring is a day of peace and rejoicing. Even if snow still covers the ground, clerics, nobles, and wealthy folk make a point of bringing out flowers grown in special rooms within temples and castles. They distribute the flowers among the people, who wear them or cast them upon the ground as bright offerings to the deities who summon the summer.
(Lunar calendar where year is divisible by four with remainder of .25)
1
14:37:30
9
05:15:00
16
19:52:30
24
10:30:00
(Lunar calendar where year is divisible by four with remainder of .25)
2
01:07:30
9
15:45:00
17
20
Summer
Solstice
06:22:30
25
21:00:00
(Lunar calendar where year is divisible by four with remainder of .25)
2
11:37:30
10
02:15:00
17
16:52:30
25
Midsummer
07:30:00
Midsummer - Midsummer night is a time of feasting, music and love. Acquaintances turn into dalliances, courtships turn into betrothals, and the deities themselves take a part by ensuring good weather for feasting and frolicking in the woods. Bad weather on this special night is taken as an omen of extremely ill fortune to come.
(Lunar calendar where year is divisible by four with remainder of .25)
22:07:30
14
12:45:00
21
03:22:30
29
18:00:00
(Lunar calendar where year is divisible by four with remainder of .25)
08:37:30
23:15:00
21
Autumn
Equinox
13:52:30
Higharvestide
04 :30:00
Higharvestide - Higharvestide is a contraction of High harvest and High tide. This holiday of feasting to celebrate the autumn harvest also marks a time of journey's. Emissaries, pilgrims, adventurers, and everyone else eager to make speed traditionally leave on their journeys the following day—before the worst of the mud clogs the tracks and the rain freezes into snow.
(Lunar calendar where year is divisible by four with remainder of .25)
19:07:00
09:45:00
00:22:30
29
15:00:00
(Lunar calendar where year is divisible by four with remainder of .25)
05:37:30
20:15:00
10:52:30
Moonfest
01:30:00
Moonfest - The feast of the moon. A celebration of ancestors and the honored dead. Stories of ancestors' exploits mix with the legends of deities until it's hard to tell one from the other.
(Lunar calendar where year is divisible by four with remainder of .25)
16:07:30
06:45:00
20
Winter
Solstice
21:22:30
12:00:00
