Today, September 1, is the start of something I’ve been building toward for a long time: the Taralmanac. It’s my experiment in giving each day of the week a living rhythm — not just boxes on a calendar, but a set of eight touchstones that mix myth, history, and practice.

I’ve wrestled with how to share this — the tech, the layout, the words — and after a lot of false starts (Webflow couldn’t do what I needed, Base44 ate my first draft), I finally got a version running that feels alive enough to show. It’s not perfect. It’s not even automated yet. But it is breathing.

Why Monday belongs to the Moon

Monday — Moon’s Day — is ruled by Mani, the Norse god who carries the Moon across the sky. The Babylonians set our seven-day week by lunar rhythm, and Mani embodies that sense of time as something we ride inside, not just count on a clock.

Where Sunday is solar and outward-facing, Monday belongs to the heart and to inward tides: rest, reflection, desire, the way we orient ourselves when the lights are low.

The Eight Cards of Moon’s Day

Here’s the first full set, the ones that cycle through every Monday:

  • Moon’s Sleep (Sleep) – Rest as a tide that restores your rhythm.
  • Mani (Ruler) – The mythic guide of the Moon, reminding us that calendars are stories.
  • Mani’s Chariots of Hearts of Fire (Target) – The pull of passion; even a small action today ripples out.
  • Right Action (Noble Path) – Gentle, steady choices in alignment with wisdom and compassion.
  • Heart Health (Ambition) – Big vision supported by the literal and metaphorical circulation of the heart.
  • Heart’s Desire (Desire) – What you truly want, whether nourishing or indulgent.
  • The Moon (Luminary) – The reflector of light, ruler of voyages and messages.
  • Heart Chakra (Chakra) – The bridge between lower and upper, between earth and sky.

Each card is an anchor: something you can meditate on, stretch into, cook around, or just hold in mind as you move through the day.

What I’ve Learned (So Far)

Building the Taralmanac has been harder than I expected — not because the idea isn’t strong, but because it’s hard to make something so abstract useful. I wanted an app that would automatically know the day and show you the right eight cards. That turned out to be trickier than expected. I crashed through a few platforms, deleted things I shouldn’t have, and swore a lot at Zapier.

But then I realized: it doesn’t need to be complicated to begin. It just needs to show today. If I can get that much working, the rest can grow from there.

A New Rhythm Begins

So tomorrow, September 1, I’m launching the first live version of the Taralmanac. It won’t be slick. It won’t explain itself perfectly. But it will be there: a daily rhythm, eight cards at a time, to walk alongside the week.

And that feels like enough.

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