This manual was last updated 2024-09-04.
About The Calendar of the Soul
"I regard the Calendar of the Soul as very important. For each consecutive week I have tried to draw up verses for meditation, the effect of which will enable the soul gradually to discover in itself and in its own experiences the connection with the great cosmic constellations.
These formulae for meditation do in all reality lead the soul out of its narrow confines to experience of the heavens. I can assure you that the results of long, long occult investigations are contained in these 52 verses which will enable the soul to find access to happenings in the great universe and thereby to experience the Spirits working in the onward flow of Time.
But if you ponder on the texts of the verses in the Calendar you will discern an element of Timelessness, in rhythmic alternation, an element that is experienced inwardly by the human being, the laws of which run parallel to those of Time in the outer world. Mere analogies do not suffice here.
Each one of you will be able to use this Calendar of the Soul every year. In it you will find something that might be described as the finding of the path leading from the human soul to the living Spirit weaving through the Universe.
The course of the year has its own life which the human soul can accompany and take part in. It may rightly find itself when such a sharing is sensitive to that which changes from week to week, and may feel how it gains strengthening forces from within. One will realize that such soul forces are waiting to be roused by participating in the meaning of the world's journeying and how it unfolds in the course of time. Thus one becomes aware of the delicate but vital threads that unite the soul with the world into which it is born."
Rudolf Steiner
About The Calendar of the Soul
"In this calendar there is a verse for each week composed so that the soul can experience the appropriate part of the year's journey, and something of the life that can thrive in the soul when it is thus united.
Then a healthy feeling of at-one-ness with the course of nature and a strong sense of self can develop, for undoubtedly, the soul bears a yearning to participate in the world's journeying by means of what these verses offer."
Rudolf Steiner
Preface of the second edition in 1918/19
About The Calendar of the Soul Online
[Rudolf] Steiner wanted no one to merely accept what was presented with blind faith; rather, he asked that everyone test what was offered and work in complete freedom with it. The philosophy that underlies the work of Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) embraces a profound understanding of the human being and of evolution. People are rightly mistrustful of doctrine or dogmatic teachings that claim solutions for personal and world problems. There is no such claim in the work of Rudolf Steiner, which he called Anthroposophy. On the contrary, in presenting the results of his research, he sought to awaken individuals to their own spiritual experiences and investigations and to encourage a greater attentiveness to the manifestations of the spirit in everyday life. He described pathways of inner development that can be followed by each individual in full freedom.
Beautifully put by Laurence Harwood in "C.S. Lewis, My Godfather: Letters, Photos and Recollections", Copyright 2007 InterVarsityPress
The main mission of The Calendar of the Soul Online is to make way for a living and versatile relationship towards the Calendar of the Soul and (where applied) some other work given by Rudolf Steiner.
The Calendar of the Soul Online is an automated, semi-automated and manually driven web based and mobile phone optimized application that consists of 52 meditational verses, aka The Verses of the Week or Weekly meditations, a selection of spiritual observations based on Rudolf Steiner's work, the anthroposophical path of knowledge.
This online edition differs from the original booklet known as The Calendar of the Soul in that, in addition to Rudolf Steiner's original verses of The Calendar of the Soul, German: Anthroposophischer Seelenkalender, it contains a collection of translations in various languages as well as many additional sections containing quotes, affirmations as well as monthly, weekly and daily exercises and last but not least extensive information of a great variety about the whys, hows and whens of The Calendar of the Soul.
The entire Calendar of the Soul Online is copyright © 1998 - 2024 The Calendar of the Soul Online & Marcel Solca, with this representing the respective copyrightholders who own their translations respectively translator's copyright as follows:
Antroposofiska Bokförlaget, The Anthroposophic Press, Arne Krohn Nielsen/Eivind Thomassen, Doorlie Gerdes, Durward J Starman, Editions Anthroposophiques Romandes, John F Gardner, John Salter, John Victor Roy/The Glasgow Steiner School, Lennart & Anne Marie Lundström, Marcel Solca, Marina Sagramora, Nora Rodríguez Galíndez, Ove Frankel, Pierre Paccoud, Roy Sadler, Rudolf Steiner Nachlass-Verwaltung, Rudolf Steiner Press and Tom Mellett.
An extensive copyright notice can be found in the next section.
This is also a good opportunity to express my deepest gratitude to all individuals, translators, publishers, authors, programmers, sharers of all kinds of knowledge, donators, communicators, visitors and many others (nor categorized nor mentioned, still remembered), who in one way or another contributed to The Calendar of the Soul Online throughout the years.
THANK YOU!
All of you made it all possible!
Marcel Solca
The Calendar of the Soul Online:
Copyright notices
Each verse contained in The Calendar of the Soul Online may be reprinted for personal use. Still, either the publishers or the translators are the owners of the copyright of The Calendar of the Soul Online content as mentioned below. Marcel Solca & The Calendar of the Soul Online are the co-owners of The Calendar of the Soul Online concept and dating plans, this manual, web coordination, programming and layout, graphics, CSS, Java, JQuery, VBScript and ASP (unless mentioned otherwise).
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Rudolf Steiner - Anthroposophischer Seelenkalender/Wochensprüche Copyright © Rudolf Steiner-Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach
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Owen Barfield / The Year Participated
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Giovanni Romano Colazza
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Ove Frankel
Copyright © 2012
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John
F Gardner
Copyright © 1995 John F Gardner
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Doorlie
Gerdes
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Arne
Krohn Nielsen & Eivind Thomassen
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Nielsen/Eivind Thomassen
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Anna-Lisa Lundkvist & Margaret Langen-Riedel
Copyright © Antroposofiska Bokförlaget, Stockholm
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Lennart
& Anne Marie Lundström
Copyright © 1978 Lennart & Anne Marie Lundström
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William
& Liselotte Mann
Copyright © 1990 Roswitha Spence
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Press
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Tom
Mellett /
The American Translation
Copyright © Tom Mellett
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Hans Möller
Copyright © Antroposofiska Bokförlaget, Stockholm
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Pierre Paccoud
Copyright © 2007 Pierre Paccoud
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Ruth
& Hans Pusch
Copyright © 1982
The Anthroposophic Press
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Simonne Rihouët-Coroze Copyright © 1994 Editions Anthroposophiques Romandes, Genève
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Nora Rodríguez Galíndez Copyright © 2001 Nora
Rodríguez Galíndez
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John
Victor Roy
Copyright © 2007 The Glasgow Steiner School
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Roy
Sadler
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Roy Sadler
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John
Salter
Copyright © 2003 John Salter
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Marcel Solca /
The AngloGerman Paraphrase
Copyright
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Dr DJ Starman
Copyright © 1999 Durward J Starman (alias)
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Development
The Calendar of the Soul Online is a Web Application that is always up to date. It is subject to spontaneous development without further notice at any given time, why minor disturbances may occur. This way, The Calendar of the Soul Online is always up to date via Nightly Updates and no particular updates have to be downloaded.
How to turn The Calendar of the Soul Online Web Application into a Mobile Phone Home Screen App
When adding this application to your mobile phone's or tablet's Home Screen, it will look and work similar to native mobile phone apps. Your browser provides an Add to Home Screen or equivalent option. If you are not familiar with how to use it, please check the following step by step instructions at Make Tech Easier's informative site:
For Apple iOS devices,
read this!
For Google Android devices,
read this!
Internet connection
An active Internet connection is required at all times. Slow execution may most likely be the result of a slow Internet connection but could as well be caused by the device you are using.
Latest updates
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Requests
The following requests and/or suggestions for additions have been stated and will be "possible" additions to The Calendar of the Soul Online in the future (already implemented requests have been removed):
Common dating of the Zodiac
Common dating of the Virtues
Additional section containing the Eight Weekdays Exercises by Rudolf Steiner
Additional section containing the Fundamental Exercises by Rudolf Steiner
The following requests for additions will not be added in a near future:
The calendar of personalities and saints.
The explicit meditations
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How to use the dating plans *
"Our desire is to express in the Calendar the objective fact of the birth of the Ego. We reckon from the Mystery of Golgotha, hence from Easter to Easter, not from one New Year's Day to the next. This has been the cause of derision and mockery, because it compels us to reckon with years of unequal length. But in what is unequal there is life; in what is uniform and fixed there is the impress of death, and our Calendar is intended to be a creative impulse for life."
Rudolf Steiner
Cologne 1912
When simply browsing among the verses of The Calendar of the Soul, no particular dating plan is needed. However, a dating plan's configuration becomes useful when immersing oneself in the verses during a longer period of time as the Calendar of the Soul displays certain verses on certain days and the importance of a plan becomes obvious and essential when following it through the course of the year on a regular basis.
The Calendar of the Soul offers a variety of Dating Plans (DP's) with different premises, approaches, purposes and outcomes. They all follow the Gregorian dates table, which is based upon the Vernal Equinox known as the official Vernal Equinox (dated March 21) and the full moon known as the official full moon (the Paschal Full Moon) - in other words: Western Easter (Easter according to the Gregorian calendar) occurring the day according to the currently used calendars. Some dating plans recognize some annual festivals as indicators (or clues) corresponding to certain verses of The Calendar of the Soul, whereby dating plans can be adjusted. Some dating plans do not. (For more information about dating and adjustments, learn about the different dating plans below). Dating Plans can be quickly changed via the Instant Access menu (clicking/tapping on the CS logo top left) where the numbers in brackets show the verse number of the week the respective Dating Plan is in.
The verses (meditations) of The Calendar of the Soul cover the 52 (+/-) weeks of the year beginning at Easter, ending at Holy Saturday, which gives us the possibility of four different numbers of days from Easter to Easter: 350 days (50 weeks), 357 days (51 weeks), 378 days (54 weeks) and 385 days (55 weeks). In other words, there will
never be 364 days (52 weeks) at disposal to contain the 52 verses 7 days a week.
In the original booklets containing the 52 verses, each verse was either accompanied by a certain date and/or a given week of the year beginning with Easter. The Calendar of the Soul, according to Rudolf Steiner, should always begin at Easter Sunday and end on Holy Saturday, the April 1st dating plan being an exception mentioned below. Such an Easter-to-Easter year he named "The Year of the Self" (YotS) and the first verse of the 1912 calendar was the verse he assigned to the week beginning with Easter Sunday. This verse he called the verse of the first week after Easter.
When asked about the change of dates from year to year due to the movable date of Easter, Rudolf Steiner emphasized that what mattered was to begin with the first verse at Easter. "The change of dates is not of great importance, since three successive verses of The Calendar of the Soul are kept in the same mood." Whichever dating plan used, this makes way for any reasonably scheduled dating plan to sync with the original intentions of dating The Calendar of the Soul verses, from which the initial dates that can be found in various printed reissues and facsimiles originate.
When initializing the Calendar of the Soul Online application, the verse of the current week according to a certain dating plan will always be the one displayed by default, even for the Southern Hemisphere if chosen by default. This can also be achieved from within the app when clicking/tapping the title bar.
There are various dating plans (DPs) to choose from (see the following sections):
* The Current DP of 2024/25
Since Rudolf Steiner's intention was to begin the Calendar of the Soul's course through the year with the first verse at the movable date of Easter Sunday and ending it with the fifty-second verse the week just before subsequent Easter Sunday, the verses have to be dated differently every year in order to meet his intentions approximately.
The Calendar of the Soul Online's DP of the current year (2024/25), aside from aiming at fulfilling these intentions, goes a step further in that it, as the original DP suggests, pays respect to fixing certain verses to recurring festivals such as Ascension, Whitsunday, Midsummer's Day/St John's Tide Day, Michaelmas, Christmas and Lent, which makes this DP the one to recommend.
✔ You are currently using this DP
* The Equalization DP of 2024/25
Since Rudolf Steiner's intention was to begin the Calendar of the Soul's course through the year with the first verse at the movable date of Easter Sunday and ending it with the fifty-second verse the week just before subsequent Easter Sunday, the verses have to be dated differently every year in order to meet his intentions of dating the verses.
The 2024/25 Equalization DP aims at fulfilling these intentions but does not intentionally synchronize with recurring festivals other than Easter. However, it offers the possibility to examine a previously unexplored dating method that has a slightly different approach on dating the verses than traditional practice, trailing the traditional Current Dating Plan with two verses/weeks at the most.
The eclectic Equalization DP divides the entire year between Easter and succeeding Easter into 52 equally long periods of time down to seconds, still making both ends meet at midnight between Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday, which is almost impossible to achieve without computing. The aforementioned 350 days, 357 days, 378 days or 385 days that elapse between Easter feasts, give us four different possibilities of shortened or prolonged weeks (2 decimals): 6,73 days/week, 6,87 days/week, 7,27 days/week and 7,40 days/week.
Eq is a variable measure with a scale based on percentages whose length is determined by the effective time that elapses between Easter feasts. Thus, the Eq interval is a variable measure as well. It is a time segment made of the effective time that elapses between the verses, which is the so called Year of the Self divided with 52 verses.
This DP requires that the exact amount of time (at least down to seconds) between dates of Easter occurring every year be known. In order to follow The Calendar of the Soul in a continuously equable rhythm throughout the years, the Equalization DP is the one to recommend.
Apart from Easter, the Equalization DP does not recognize the annual festivals as indicators (or clues) corresponding to certain verses of The Calendar of the Soul, which makes them coincide with respective verses only incidentally. However, beginning the dating with Easter Sunday, makes each verse related to a specific event be close at hand and using this dating method there will never be a gap or an overlap between the 52nd verse of the year and the 1st verse of the year that will follow.
It has to be mentioned that all dating plans, sooner or later, require certain adjustments to be done, mainly by including or excluding one or more days in order to make the verses fix to certain festivals or to fit the length of the entire year.
Throughout the Calendar of the Soul's Equalization DP of 2024/25 the Eq interval (the interval between the verses) is approximately 7 days 9 hrs 41 mins and 32 secs.
When reading the current verse according to the Equalization DP, click/tap the small Eq DP label at the top right hand for extensive Equalization information. If hovering over the label, the remaining time until the next verse will be displayed.
You are welcome to try out the Eq DP and get involved! Is this an acceptable dating method? Does it comply with what you find necessary as a foundation for a reasonable way of dating the Calendar of the Soul verses? Is there something you wish to add or to be changed? Would you like to contribute with your own experiences? Share your thoughts by
email. Find contact info at the bottom of the main page!
* The Sundays DP of 2024/25
Since Rudolf Steiner's intention was to begin the Calendar of the Soul's course through the year with the first verse at the movable date of Easter Sunday and ending it with the fifty-second verse the week just before subsequent Easter Sunday, the verses have to be dated differently every year in order to meet his intentions of dating the verses.
The Sundays DP will always aim at fulfilling these intentions but does not intentionally synchronize with recurring festivals other than Easter. It is a straight-forward DP in that it presents a new verse every Sunday, 52 verses in succession if the number of weeks of the Year of the Self were 52 weeks, which never occurs. If the Year of the Self lasts 50 or 51 weeks, subsequent verses after Easter will override the remaining verse(s) when a new year begins. If it lasts 54 or 55 weeks, it will display the 52nd verse during the remaining week(s) until subsequent Easter. No prolongation of weeks will be applied for any other verse than, if necessary, verse 52. No verse will be disregarded other than, if necessary, verses 51 and/or 52.
When reading the current verse according to the Sundays DP, click/tap the small Sundays DP label at the top right hand for more extensive information.
The drawback of this DP (as mentioned above): There may be more or less weeks than the 52 verses, which you have to deal with by yourself in the best possible way.
* The Resuming DP
The Resuming DP lets you participate on your own terms, at your own pace, picking up where you left off. Choose the Resuming DP in Preferences or via the Instant Access menu (clicking/tapping on the CS logo top left) and either the last displayed verse or the verse stamped manually to be resumed will be shown by default.
Stamping a verse manually for the purpose of making it stand out and study it particularly is also made possible while using other Dating plans, provided AutoResume is not checked, although the resumeable verse will only show when the Resuming Dating plan is activated. Read more about it clicking the Info button top right of the verses.
Note: The Resuming DP will only resume a certain verse and will not store certain translations if changed after a resume stamp.
* The April 1st DP of 2024/25
Rudolf Steiner mentioned that one could date the verses starting with April 1 to achieve a periodical DP running from year to year. This DP requires no further planning. One year, according to the Gregorian calendar, has approximately 52 weeks in that 365 days divided by 7 days equals 52.1428571 weeks, on a leap year 366 days divided by 7 days equals 52.2857 weeks. Since the Calendar of the Soul contains 52 verses, this DP seems to be straight forward. Nevertheless, being just one of many different ways of dating the April 1st variation, there are some adjustments to be made to keep the April 1st DP proportional toward other DPs, toward itself and toward leap year occurrences. This version of the April 1st DP is adjusted to make verses 12, 26 and 38 coincide with St. John (Midsummer), St. Michael and Christmas.
A significant drawback: This DP does not meet Rudolf Steiner's fundamental intentions of distributing the verses throughout the Year of the Self nor do the latest dates of Easter between April 22 and April 25 (when occurring) meet the intention of three verses being kept in the same mood as Rudolf Steiner's initial intentions of dating the verses do suggest. It is therefore not of great interest to follow this DP, which makes it supposedly be of historical interest only.
When reading the current verse according to the April 1st DP, click/tap the small April 1st DP label at the top right hand for more extensive information about the distribution of the April 1st DP.
* The DP of 1925/26
This DP differs quite a bit from the DP's of 1912/13 and 1918/19 below, in that Rudolf Steiner in this specific update to fit the year of 1925/26, valid from just a fortnight after his death, seems to have favored a straight forward Sundays Dating Plan with a 7 days interval throughout the Year of the Self adding just an eighth day for the final 52nd verse to make ends meet on Holy Saturday, a fact that was mainly possible specifically for this rather unique time span. Although being out of date (current dates rarely coincide with the ones given in 1925/26) and supposedly of historical interest only, this DP meets the so-called Current DP quiet well, in that the latter is (or at least can be) based mainly on the same principles.
* The DP of 1918/19
This DP differs slightly from the DP of 1912/13 below, from which Rudolf Steiner made a specific update for this special edition published to fit the year of 1918/19. Although being out of date (current dates rarely coincide with the ones given in 1918/19) and supposedly of historical interest only, this DP meets the so-called Current DP quiet well, in that the latter is based mainly on the same principles.
* The DP of 1912/13
It is also possible to use the original DP, which means the original dates that were valid in 1912/13, when the Calendar of the Soul was published for the first time. Although being out of date (current dates rarely coincide with the ones given in 1912/13) and supposedly of historical interest only, this DP meets the so-called Current DP quiet well, in that the latter is based mainly on the same principles.
* The Random DP
The Random DP picks a verse at random, whenever visiting The Calendar of the Soul Online or when clicking/tapping the title bar or the randomly generated verse numbers at the bottom of the drop-down Random DP info box.
How to choose a different DP
Choose one of the available DPs either in the Instant Access menu (top left) or in Preferences (top right) corner of the verse display window. A DP will always persist until change.
The Southern Hemisphere
For visitors living in the Southern Hemisphere: In order to start the Calendar of the Soul Online showing the verse for the Southern Hemisphere by default, choose Southern Hemisphere in the top left Instant Access menu or in Preferences and use the Opposite verse button [O] to toggle between the Southern and the opposite Northern Hemisphere verse.
The term Southern Hemisphere View is a somehow hypothetical way of approximately reversing the active dating method to fit for the Southern Hemisphere. The verses for the Southern Hemisphere, as dated by The Calendar of the Soul Online, follow the currently used interval of the Northern Hemisphere, reversed to a simple, straight forward Southern Hemisphere displacement and the Eq Dating Plan is highly recommended for this purpose.
Sergei O. Prokofieff, in his "The Cycle of the Year as a Path of Initiation Leading to an Experience of the Christ Being: An Esoteric Study" referred to Fred Poeppig receiving the following answer when Rudolf Steiner was asked about the Southern hemisphere question: "The weekly verses of the Soul Calendar must be switched round to be used in accordance with the seasonal rhythms of the particular locality" and adds that the opposite verse must then be included in order to restore the correspondence.
About choosing verses and translations
How to use and explain the Title Bar
A click/tap on the Title Bar at the top will always allow you to instantly display the verse of the week that has been assigned according to the currently selected dating plan (DP).
How to browse the verses in either direction
To take advantage of the verse navigation area, click/tap the left or right side of the verse section. To swipe left or right instead of clicking left or right, you may activate the Swipe area which will enable swiping in the verse section. This results in elimination of usual scroll and zoom-in/zoom-out gestures and scrolling will only be possible on the verse section's left and right peripherals.
Note: The left/right swipe and click/tap area will only be active on the verse section. All other sections will not be affected. If not sure what this is about, it is recommended to omit use of swipeable areas and just click left/right to navigate.
For demonstration purposes, you may activate visible Click and swipe areas in Preferences to get an idea of the swipeable and clickable/tappable area.
How to choose a certain verse
Click/tap the Verse select box on the lower row of the buttons panel at the bottom of the page and make your choice.
How to choose (or switch to) another translation
Click/tap the Translation select box on the upper row of the buttons panel at the bottom of the page and make your choice.
How to set the favourite default translation
Your current selection will always be your default translation until you make another choice. This option has been made possible thanks to contributions of donators. Thank you!
How to only show Rudolf Steiner's original verse in German
To have no translation displayed at all (which means that only Rudolf Steiner's original verse in German will be displayed), click/tap the Translation select box on the upper row of the buttons panel at the bottom of the page and choose Steiner (Deutsch) only.
How to only show Rudolf Steiner's Outlines of the original verses in German
To have only these displayed, click/tap the Translation select box on the upper row of the buttons panel at the bottom of the page and choose Steiner (Outlines) only.
How to make either the original or translated verse appear first
Check Translation first in Preferences after clicking/tapping the CS menu at the top right corner of the verse display window. This determines if the translation is shown first (above the German original) or the other way around.
More information about each translation
Translation information is displayed after clicking the ( I ) Info-button top right of the verse.
How to make the panel appear/disappear
Click/tap the red or the green Eye symbol in the panel to show/hide the panel.
This can be activated/deactivated either on the panel itself or in Preferences.
How to make the panel appear/disappear on request
The buttons panel, while hidden, will become visible instantly, when hovering or tapping over the imaginary area of it. Although (on mobile phones) it requires some training to locate the hidden panel, this function offers a cleaner and more compact look.
How to make the Panel float above the scrolling text alternatively stick and scroll at the bottom of the calendar content
Toggle click/tap the Float symbol to make the panel float above the scrolling text alternatively at the bottom of the calendar content.
These options can be switched between either on the panel itself or in Preferences.
How to switch to the corresponding verse (C)
Click/tap the Corresponding verse button [C] on the lower row of the buttons panel at the bottom to toggle between the pair of corresponding verses (aka mirroring verses). When starting with verse one at Easter for the very first time, it is recommended to omit using the corresponding verse until reaching the 27th verse. The corresponding verse will then be corresponding as the year's second half starts with verse #27: Verse #26 will correspond with it and verse 28 will correspond with verse 25 and so on.
For each week that passes, the corresponding verses reappearing in descending succession, will equally complement the verses in ascending succession. Once this process is chosen to be activated for the first time (preferably around Michaelmas), every week will have the two corresponding qualities of these verse pairs even thereafter.
Note: The Corresponding verse may not be confused with the Opposite verse mentioned below.
How to switch to the opposite verse (O)
Click/tap the Opposite verse button [O] on the lower row of the buttons panel at the bottom to toggle between the pair of opposite verses. For each week that passes, the opposite verse will equally counterpoint the current verse.
How to display the Corresponding verses in a pair or in a group of four together with the Opposite verses on a permanent basis.
Corresponding and opposite verses form a set of four verses related to and either corresponding or counterpointing each other. The best way to experience their relation is by activating the sets of complementary verses in Preferences.
The 2 Complementary Verses Set displays the basic verse along with its corresponding verse.
The 4 Complementary Verses Set displays the aforementioned 2 verses along with their opposite verses, forming the aforementioned set of four verses.
As an option, it is also possible to omit the already displayed "basic" verse, the verse that the corresponding verse and the opposite verses depend on in this regard, since the basic verse has been displayed at the top already.
How to adjust the application to your preferences
Click/tap the
symbol at the bottom left side of the Buttons Panel or at the top right corner of the verse display window. You then will be able to choose from all options available in Preferences.
Preferences manual
With the exception of occasional references in this manual as well as descriptional instructions and comments in Preferences, the Preferences themselves are not touched in depth in this manual. It is recommended that you take a look at options offered and make changes and/or adjustments by trial and error. There is nothing that can't be readjusted.
* Your BirthVerse
BirthVerse is part of the Calendar of the Soul's Equalization, April 1st and Sundays dating plans, all three being identically recurring dating plans for every year. The formula calculates which date a verse has been or will be the current verse according to the chosen dating plan. So,
which is your BirthVerse?
Note: Using different DPs may, obviously, give different BirthVerses, since every plan has a different approach on how to date the verses. Once saved, your BirthVerse will feature a star at the top left hand side and in the verse select box at the bottom. Calculation of BirthVerses according to manually dated plans have to be done manually according to the information displayed after clicking the DP-button top right of the verse.
CS Booklet (An electronic representation)
If you prefer to use the CS Booklet,
find it here. Bookmark the URL for direct use. Please note that your preferred Dating Plan has to be chosen in the main application to be working in the CS Booklet.
CS Lite (Just the verses)
If you prefer to use CS Lite,
find it here. Bookmark the URL for direct use. Please note that settings, such as Dating Plan and Translation, have to be done in the main application to be working in CS Lite.
CS Retro
The Retro version, the former main version of The Calendar of the Soul, has been entirely discontinued in 2021!
Fonts
The mainly used font, Sophia, is used by kind permission of Lutz Baar and can be found at
FontSpace. The Drop Caps feature the Calligraffitti font which can be found at
FontSpace as well. The Typewriter Font is used by courtesy of
oNline Web Fonts and is licensed by CC BY 3.0.
How to get in touch with the creator of The Calendar of the Soul Online
Feel free to send me an
email. Find contact info at the bottom of the main page!
Note: The Calendar of the Soul Online is always a work in progress!
Enjoy!
Marcel