Master Calendar 2026–2032
TEK8 Calendar
Where every tradition converges. TEK8 seasonal wheel, Crystal Cycle phases, world festivals, Indigenous ceremonies, Olympic Games, rites of passage, and cosmic cycles — all woven into one living calendar.
"The calendar is the first technology. Every culture's calendar IS their cosmology."
TEK8 Seasonal Wheel
Eight seasons. Eight elements. Eight sabbats. The year turns through all eight petals.
Crystal Cycle
12 months. 10 steps + ENCORE + OVERTURE. The organizational rhythm.
2026–2032 Milestone Timeline
Major events on the path from now to Brisbane 2032. Olympics, Indigenous games, eclipses, and milestones.
2026
XXV Olympic Winter Games open at San Siro Stadium, Milan. Alpine skiing, biathlon, bobsled, cross-country, figure skating, ice hockey, luge, skeleton, ski jumping, snowboard.
Winter Games close at Verona Arena.
Total lunar eclipse visible from Americas, Europe, Africa.
XIV Paralympic Winter Games. March 6–15.
Arctic Winter Games in Whitehorse, Yukon. Circumpolar athletes compete in Arctic sports, Dene games, snowshoeing, dog mushing, and more.
48-team FIFA World Cup across 16 host cities in US, Mexico, and Canada. First tri-nation World Cup. Seattle is a host city.
Total solar eclipse path crosses Arctic, Greenland, Iceland, and Spain.
2027
NAIG 2027 in Calgary, Alberta. ~6,000 Indigenous athletes competing in athletics, basketball, baseball, canoe/kayak, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, volleyball, wrestling, and more.
Total solar eclipse across North Africa, Mediterranean, and Middle East.
2028
Fifth Bitcoin halving. Block reward drops to 1.5625 BTC.
XXXIV Olympiad opens at LA Memorial Coliseum and SoFi Stadium. First LA Olympics since 1984. Sports include flag football, cricket, lacrosse, squash, and baseball/softball returning.
Lacrosse returns to the Olympics for the first time since 1908. The Creator's Game — a Haudenosaunee medicine game — on the world's biggest stage. The Haudenosaunee Nationals team's decades-long fight for inclusion.
Total solar eclipse visible from Australia, New Zealand. During LA Olympics!
LA 2028 Summer Olympics close. Lacrosse returns as Olympic sport — the Creator's Game on the world stage.
LA 2028 Paralympic Games. August 15–27.
Total lunar eclipse on New Year's Eve 2028. Blood moon rings in 2029.
2030
XXVI Olympic Winter Games in the French Alps.
French Alps 2030 Winter Games close.
XV Paralympic Winter Games.
Total solar eclipse from South Africa to Australia.
2031
Hybrid solar eclipse over Pacific and Panama.
2032
Total lunar eclipse, April 2032.
XXXV Olympiad opens in Brisbane, Australia. The first Olympics with Indigenous participation at its core. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the world's oldest continuous cultures (~65,000 years). Venues across Brisbane, Gold Coast, and Sunshine Coast.
Brisbane 2032 closes on 8/8 — Guild Wellness Encounter Day. Eight elements converge on the world stage.
Brisbane 2032 Paralympic Games. August 24 – September 5.
Total lunar eclipse, October 2032.
Annual Recurring Calendar
Cultural events, festivals, ceremonies, and observances that recur every year. All traditions, all relations.
January
INSERT COIN · BeginGregorian new year. INSERT COIN — the cycle begins.
Imani (Faith) — final principle. Kwanzaa runs Dec 26–Jan 1.
Wolves howl. The long night's full moon.
Honoring Dr. King's legacy of nonviolent resistance and justice.
Spring Festival. Largest annual human migration. 15-day celebration.
February
MUSIC BEGINS · CreateCross-quarter day. Brigid's festival. First stirrings of spring fire.
Honoring African American history, culture, and achievement.
Annual TTRPG zine creation season on Kickstarter. MUSIC BEGINS.
Festival of Saraswati — goddess of knowledge, music, arts. Yellow is worn.
Heaviest snows. The hunger moon.
Anniversary of Luminara Bitcoin ordinal inscription #71,250,298.
Great Night of Shiva. Fasting, meditation, the cosmic dance of destruction and creation.
Junior division of NYO. Traditional Native games for younger athletes. Kneel jump, wrist carry, one-foot high kick, Indian stick pull.
March
GATHER · CollectCelebrating women's contributions to history, culture, and society.
The Creator's Game. Medicine game played since before contact. Haudenosaunee origin.
National celebration of reading, literacy, and storytelling.
Celebrating the 10-step Crystal Cycle. Coin Music Gather Craft Quest Rest Play Map Yield Close.
Festival of Colors. Victory of good over evil. Play without hierarchy.
Earth thaws. Earthworms emerge.
Day and night in balance. Seeds planted. Earth awakens.
Spring equinox new year. 3,000+ year tradition. Haft-sin table.
Honoring Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole, champion of Native Hawaiian rights.
April
CRAFT · ForgeAgricultural education through Minecraft. Farm sustainability simulation.
Traditional wilderness solo time begins.
Honoring ancestors. Cleaning graves, offering food.
Birth of Lord Rama. Dharma manifested.
Wild phlox blooms.
Traditional Native games competition. Kneel jump, blanket toss, seal hop, stick pull, one-foot high kick, Eskimo stick pull, Indian stick pull.
Block reward halved every ~4 years. Scarcity deepens.
Global environmental awareness and action. All 8 petals unite.
May
QUEST · SeekFire festival. Spiritual boundary crossing.
Celebration of the lei — woven love, respect, and aloha.
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
Premier hula competition. Cultural renaissance. King Kalākaua's legacy.
Birth, enlightenment, and death of Siddhartha Gautama.
Flowers everywhere. Abundance visible.
Coast Salish cedar bark harvest. Protocol and prayer.
Anniversary of first real-world Bitcoin transaction (2010).
Honoring those who died in military service.
June
REST · PauseLGBTQ+ Pride. Celebrating identity, love, and resistance.
First salmon ceremony season. The salmon people come home.
6/4 = 64 Gemstone Species. Discover your Birth Hexagram.
Racing dragon boats. Zongzi. Honoring Qu Yuan.
Honoring Kamehameha the Great, unifier of the Hawaiian Islands.
Strawberry harvest.
Independence from Spain (1898). Araw ng Kasarinlan.
Wilderness rites of passage for youth ages 11-18.
Emancipation Day. June 19, 1865.
Longest day. Peak light. The sun stands still.
Free RPG quickstarts and modules at game stores worldwide.
July
PLAY · EnjoyUnification of British and Italian Somaliland (1960). Seattle has largest Somali diaspora.
Salmonberry, huckleberry, blackberry season. Gathering is ceremony.
Mohawk rites of passage. Haudenosaunee tradition.
Folk game born on Philadelphia stoops. A pimple ball + a broomstick = infinite play.
Honoring spiritual teachers. Vyasa born this day.
Deer antlers in full growth.
Intertribal paddle gathering. Hundreds of canoes. Protocol, song, story.
Traditional Native athletic events: ear pull, knuckle hop, blanket toss, muktuk eating, Eskimo stick pull. Since 1961.
Seattle's summer festival.
Men's rites of passage on Vashon Island.
August
MAP · ChartFirst harvest. Bread from first grain. Games in honor of Lugh's foster mother.
The biggest tabletop gaming convention. 70,000+ attendees.
8/8 — Roll your 8 dice. Find your GWE. Discover your Karma.
Sturgeon most readily caught.
Up to 100 meteors/hour. Best summer stargazing.
Welcoming the first salmon. Bones returned to the river.
Annual celebration of Makah culture. Canoe races, salmon bake.
Birth of Lord Krishna. The divine player enters the world.
Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle.
September
YIELD · HarvestCultural events at the Duwamish Longhouse, West Seattle.
School year begins. Afterschool programs launch.
Bright enough to harvest by.
Ge'ez calendar new year. Spring in Ethiopia.
Sep 15–Oct 15. Celebrating Latinx heritage.
Salmon return to spawn. Festival celebrations.
Mooncakes, lanterns, family reunion.
UN-designated day of global ceasefire and non-violence.
Day and night balance again. Second harvest.
Nine nights honoring Durga. Culminates in Dussehra.
October
CLOSE · ReleaseCelebrating unique identity and belonging.
Gandhi's birthday. Ahimsa.
Global celebration of tabletop gaming.
Fields cleared, prey visible.
Honoring indigenous peoples, histories, and living cultures.
International gathering of rites of passage practitioners.
Light over darkness, knowledge over ignorance.
National celebration of afterschool programs.
The veil between worlds thins. The year's CLOSE.
November
ENCORE · ReflectHonoring Native peoples, cultures, and contributions. Since Time Immemorial.
The old Celtic new year.
Washington State tribal sovereignty curriculum.
National Novel Writing Month. 50,000 words in 30 days.
Beavers prepare for winter.
Celebrating science, technology, engineering, arts, and math.
11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.
Hawaiian new year season of Lono. Peace, harvest, sport, hula. War is kapu (forbidden). Lasts ~4 lunar months through February. Traditional games include 'ulu maika (bowling), hākōkō (wrestling), heihei wa'a (canoe racing), and kōnane (strategy game).
December
OVERTURE · DreamMakahiki continues. Traditional sport competitions, hula, and harvest celebrations.
Winter deepens. The OVERTURE moon.
Anniversary of Krishna speaking the Bhagavad Gita.
Up to 150 meteors/hour. Often the year's best shower.
Longest night. The sun reborn.
Chinese winter solstice. Tangyuan. Yin gives way to yang.
All 8 guilds gather at the still point. OVERTURE for the new cycle.
Seven principles (Nguzo Saba). Dec 26–Jan 1.
Honoring José Rizal, Filipino national hero.
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Editable Calendar
Additional events (NYO 2026, Seattle orgs, milestones, community events) are stored in
/events.json
— a file you can edit directly, even after deployment.
To add events: edit public/events.json in the source, or replace
the file on Cloudflare Pages. Each event has a standard structure with dates, categories, descriptions,
TEK8 element mapping, and optional links.
Google Calendar import:
Copy events from events.json and create .ics files,
or use a JSON-to-ICS converter to import into Google Calendar.
Each event includes standard date fields for easy conversion.
This calendar honors traditions from Coast Salish and Pacific NW indigenous peoples, Hawaiian, African, Asian, Vedic, Celtic, and many other cultures. Dates marked "lunar" or "variable" shift annually. Power Days occur when three or more cultural traditions converge.