Ancient Egyptian Good Luck Calendar

You might have heard of the Japanese Good Luck Calendar or the Chinese lucky birthday calendar, but did you know there is a good luck calendar that dates back more than 5,000 years?

The ancient Egyptians are well known for their superstitions, and they didn’t do anything without first consulting the good luck calendar.

The ancient Egyptians had a 365-day calendar, with 12 months in a year. They had three seasons, each with four months. Whereas we have Winter, Summer, Spring, and Fall, the ancient Egyptians had the seasons of growth, harvest, and flood.

As you can see, they were very much like us. However, that being said, their calendar didn’t match up with our own. We start our new year in January. But their first month of the year was what works out to be July for us.

We know this because Egyptologists were able to calculate and convert the days of the ancient Egyptian year and align them with our modern-day calendar. And what’s great is that we can now use their ancient good-luck calendar ourselves!

This calendar was meant to determine whether each day would be a good or bad day to embark on a certain activity.  The day of the year could be seen as ….

• Favorable
• Mostly favorable
• Very favorable
• Adverse
• Mostly adverse
• Very adverse

This data comes from what we now call the Cairo Calendar, a nineteenth-dynasty Egyptian almanac that lists religious feasts, mythological incidents, favorable or adverse days, forecasts, and warnings.

Ancient Egyptian Good Luck Calendar