The Calendar of the New Era
Natural Time Calendar
This “calendar for natural time” is intended as a tool to help us reconnect with “natural truths” at a time when our lives are increasingly shaped by technology, economic forces, and supposedly “scientifically proven” facts and truths.
It invites us to reconnect with cosmic energies — those of the Sun, the Earth, the planets… — and with our spiritual and creative development, which has been under pressure for thousands of years, and increasingly so over the past century. We are creative beings, yet many of us no longer have the space or opportunity to truly express that creative nature…
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In 2026, we are living in a time in which attempts are being made to disconnect us entirely from nature and transform us into “controllable entities”. Efficiency, speed and logic have become the guiding principles of our world. Useful for business, perhaps, but detrimental to our well-being.
Much of the stress we experience — and, as a consequence, many chronic illnesses — stems from the systematic denial and suppression of our natural human rhythms and needs. For many people, true silence and rest have all but disappeared. As a result, there is hardly any space left for our creativity: we are primarily “surviving”, and even “relaxation” has largely become something organised and arranged for us.
This calendar book focuses primarily on two essential aspects of life:
The influence of the MOON in its dance with the Earth and the Sun
The extensive information on this subject offers various ways to bring your life back into harmony with the rhythms of nature and with the influences the Sun and Moon exert on the Earth, on nature, and therefore on us as human beings as well: we ARE nature.
Awareness of personal development
The classical sacred Yucatec calendar, the TZOLK’IN, has been used by the Maya for more than 5,000 years as a guide for the inner and spiritual development of both the individual and the communities in which people lived — and continue to live today.
Jeroen Vinken
Artist and writer
About the writer
Throughout my life, I have given shape to the material world we live in, guided by a desire to add products and works of art of meaning and value to what already exists. My passion has always been to develop new perspectives that enrich both our material world and the way we experience it.
For a long time, I wasn’t particularly conscious of nature or the Earth. They were simply there, taken for granted — just like the Sun, the Moon and the stars. They formed a kind of “backdrop” against which my life unfolded (and, as it happens, I once worked on theatre sets too ;-)).
To me, “real life” was the world of art and culture. I saw it as a “higher level” through which humanity distinguished itself from the other living beings on Earth.
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New visions, new perspectives and new dimensions in theatre, music, visual art and literature fascinated me. Truly new ways of seeing things that sharpen your awareness!
And I believe that the developments in art and culture during the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s were indeed an important driving force behind wider social change: exploring boundaries and fighting for freedom. How many people were inspired by the Beatles? (“The Beatles were regarded as an embodiment of the shared ideals of the sociocultural revolutions of the 1960s.” — Wikipedia.) And just think of all the discussions sparked by the different movements in the visual arts!
A great deal has changed in the world. In my view, the role of contemporary art and “culture” has been reduced to an intellectual “illustration” of developments taking place in the world, rather than playing the pioneering role they once had in Western society.
Over time, I began to truly see nature — nature and its connection with the cosmos around us. I began to see the boundless creativity and intelligence of nature and the universe, which our technocratic and purely economically driven society has reduced to little more than an imperfect “backdrop” for humanity — something that supposedly needs to be constantly improved upon.
“Developing new perspectives to enrich the material world and the way we experience it” is still my passion.
“Sharpening awareness” continues to fascinate me. I see myself as an explorer of my own consciousness.
My “field of exploration” has simply shifted: from industrial and artificial products to nature, the Earth, what it means to be human, and the forces of the cosmos.
With this “calendar for reconnecting with natural time”, I hope to add something of meaning and value to what already exists in our material world…