As an experiment, I’m organizing my 2023 into 13 three-week periods, each followed by a one-week break. This idea came about while thinking about planners and the new year.
This structure is interesting because 13 x (3 + 1) = 52, which is both the number of weeks in a year and the number of playing cards in a standard deck.
Each card in the deck could represent a week, but I will use one suit per year and have each card in the suit represent a period. Using one suit per year allows each suit [♠️,♥️,♦️,♣️] to express a Yearly Theme, as regularly discussed on Cortex.
For 2023, I selected ♥️, so the year breaks down like this:
A♥️: 01/02/2023–01/20/2023
2♥️: 01/30/2023–02/17/2023
3♥️: 02/27/2023–03/17/2023
4♥️: 03/27/2023–04/14/2023
5♥️: 04/24/2023–05/12/2023
6♥️: 05/22/2023–06/09/2023
7♥️: 06/19/2023–07/07/2023
8♥️: 07/17/2023–08/04/2023
9♥️: 08/14/2023–09/01/2023
T♥️: 09/11/2023–09/29/2023
J♥️: 10/09/2023–10/27/2023
Q♥️: 11/06/2023–11/24/2023
K♥️: 12/04/2023–12/22/2023
A Discovery and an Observation
From the Nomenclature section on Wikipedia:
Tens may be either abbreviated to T or written as 10.
Using T to represent a Ten is nice because I can use two characters to represent each period. Another nicety is beginning the year with an Ace — it’s like starting out already on top.
Hopefully, this system will be helpful. Because I was not planning on having a planning system, this may be a case of “easily imagined, easily forgotten.”
Another fun consideration is that while I know what ♥️ means to me, I have a whole year to think about what ♠️, ♦️, and ♣️ will represent.
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