☾ Keep Different Time

A lunar calendar for people who are done living on the extraction schedule.

The dominant calendar is an extraction schedule disguised as neutral time. Fiscal quarters, Black Friday, Prime Day — every recurring rhythm in mainstream life either organizes your labor or your consumption. Keep Different Time is a shared celestial calendar that organizes community life around the moon instead of the market.

No one owns the moon. No one can move the equinox to maximize Q4 revenue.

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What This Is

A static landing page and printable calendar system built around three tiers of celestial timekeeping:

Solar Feasts — four times a year

Feast	When	Purpose
The Feast of Transition	Spring Equinox	Celebrate coming out — in all its forms
The Feast of Joy	Summer Solstice	Celebrate living outside the closet and outside the lines
The Feast of the Elders	Fall Equinox	Honor our heritage, our ancestors, and our elders
The Feast of Woes	Winter Solstice	Mock our oppressors and mourn the closet

Lunar Sabbaths — every month

Phase	Sabbath	Prompt
● New Moon	Bear Each Other's Burdens	Who needs help? What can you offer?
◑ Waxing Moon	Seek Queer Joy	What brings you joy? Where will you go looking?
○ Full Moon	Feast & Share Plenty	Where are we meeting? What did you bring?
◐ Waning Moon	Learn Our History	What are you learning? Who's teaching you?

Blue Moon High Sabbaths — rare, ~every 2.7 years

• The Festival of Found Family — 14 days to celebrate the family you chose
• The Festival of Estrangement — 14 days for the losses, the families that couldn't or wouldn't hold us

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Features

• Live moon phase widget — calculates the current lunar phase and displays the corresponding prompt
• Accessible — WCAG AA contrast ratios, skip navigation, ARIA labels, keyboard navigation, prefers-reduced-motion support, forced-colors support
• Zero dependencies — single HTML file, no build step, no frameworks
• Interactive — accordion argument panels, drag-to-scroll lunar cards, scroll-tracking side navigation
• Responsive — works on mobile, tablet, and desktop

Getting Started

It's one HTML file. That's the whole thing.

# clone it
git clone https://github.com/yourname/keep-different-time.git

# open it
open index.html

No build tools. No package manager. No node_modules. Just like the calendar itself — the infrastructure is simple so the relationships can be complex.

Deployment

Drop index.html on any static host:

• GitHub Pages — push to main, enable Pages in repo settings
• Netlify — drag the file into the deploy zone
• Vercel — vercel --prod
• Literally anywhere — it's a single HTML file

Contributing

This project has no copyright, no trademark, and no ownership. Take it. Change it. Make it yours.

If you want to contribute back:

1. Fork the repo
2. Make your changes
3. Open a PR

Some things that would be good to build:

• Printable PDF calendar template for the current year
• ICS/iCal export for subscribing in calendar apps
• Localized solar feast dates (they shift slightly each year)
• Translations
• A companion app or shared calendar integration

Philosophy

The most radical thing you can do is change what clock you live by. This project doesn't tell anyone what to believe. It offers a when and a what kind of energy. The moon does the organizing. People opt into a rhythm, not a doctrine.

Chosen relationships are more fragile than inherited ones — not because they matter less, but because nothing structural holds them together. A shared calendar gives the family you built the same scaffolding that biological families get by default.

License

None. Public domain. No rights reserved. The moon doesn't have a license and neither does this.

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Est. First Full Moon You Notice