> more connected to my culture as I am more aware of holidays and other traditions that were lost when the Gregorian calendar took over.

Didn’t every culture basically use a lunar calendar before the Gregorian calendar? I remember reading that the oldest lunar calendar was found in Scotland or something.

Totally relate to your comments about being closer to nature when being aware of the moon cycle. It’s like we’re living in a clock and we’re using the gears to keep time instead of the hour hand.

makes me wish more of pre-Christian European culture had persisted.