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Why are there no leap year days?

As many have noted, February 29 is not counted as a day of the week in the thirteen-moon calendar.

Why?

Currently the Earth orbits the sun in 365.2421896698 days.

Some astronomers and scientists maintain that the Earths rotation (the day/night
alternation) is not a constant and therefore the length of the solar year can change.

This means the idea of a fixed leap year doesn't work.

Even the best astronomers are not in agreement as to the exact measurement of the solar year.

It is this .2421896698 fraction of a day that the leap year day accounts for.

Realistically speaking, the Earth does not go around the sun in 365 days some years and 366 days in other years.

The leap year day keeps the current calendar from slipping in regard to the seasons.
If no leap year day was kept spring would come earlier and earlier in the year.

So how did people figure out Leap Year days long ago?

Ancient peoples made temples or pyramids where light would shine either on the Equinoxes or the Solstices. This insured that their calendar was in synch with the seasons.

The pyramid of Chichen Itza is one of many examples of this style of architecture, where a serpent appears along the steps on Spring Equinox.

There are many examples of this type of architecture among many different cultures around the world.

Many cultures recognized long ago that the Earth did not follow a precise 365-day year,
but there are many different ways of solving this "problem" besides a leap year day.

Instead of having February 29 every four years,
why not have a thirteen-day Wavespell-Out-of-Time every 52 years?

Every 52 years there are 13 leap year days.

Instead of having an extra day on February 29 every four years, these days would be celebrated at the end of 52 years as thirteen Days-Out-of-Time.

These thirteen days would be a Wavespell-Out-of-Time, like the Day-Out-of-Time on July 25, but an entire thirteen day Festival of Peace through Culture.

Currently, since Leap Year is observed, each leap year observed takes one day out of the thirteen-day Wavespell-Out-of-Time (a more in-depth look here).

There is scientific evidence that the Earth's rotation on its axis is slowing down due to global warming. If the day becomes just one minute longer, there would be no need to add days to the calendar, as the Earth would go around the sun in exactly 365 days. For more information see global warming's effect on year length (outside webpage)

So!!
Why don't you just keep February 29 like everyone else?

February 29 is an arbitrary day… Why isn't it December 32?

The reason it is February 29 has to do with the imperial ambitions Julius Caesar, not science or astronomy. *(Read more about the history of February 29 here)

Keeping February 29 would throw off the harmonic perfection of the thirteen moon calendar!

In the current twelve-month calendar Sunday, April 01, 2001 in 2002 becomes Monday, April 1 then Tuesday April 1, 2003 and then Thursday April 1, 2004.

There is no easily recognizable system for what a day will be a year ago or a year from now with the current twelve-month calendar.

In the thirteen moon calendar Sunday, April 01, 2001 is the 25th day of the 9th moon, on Alpha, or the 5th day of the week. A year from now it will still be the 25th day of the 9th moon, on Alpha, the 5th day as it will be a thousand years from now.

That is because the thirteen moon calendar is perpetual and harmonic.

If you are familiar with the Harmonic module, there is an even deeper reason why February 29 cannot be counted (which you can read more about here)

So Leap Year isn't counted...
but the sun rises, it is a day isn't it?
I Still Don't Get it!

Yes, it is a day, but it is not a day of the week, nor does it have a Solar Seal. It is a void day, 0.0 Hunab Ku.

February 29 is completely arbitrary, a day to make up the .2421896698 of a day difference between the 365 days of the year and the actual amount of time the Earth takes to go around the Sun.

This assures that the seasons are always more or less at the same time of the year (ever noticed how sometimes Spring Equinox is March 21 and sometimes March 22?). This is due to that .2421896698 of a day fraction.

Julius Caesar and February 29 | Wavespells Out of Time

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