The Early Modern World — Season of Repentance
Days 253–280 cover the 1500s and 1600s: colonialism, reformation, and the reckoning with history. Virgo is the season of repentance, echoing the Jewish High Holy Days: Virgo 10 (Rosh Hashanah), the Days of Awe from Virgo 11 to 19, Virgo 20 (Yom Kippur), and Virgo 26 (Sukkot). The narrative of colonialism and repentance follows its own arc rather than being spread across all days as Easter is.
Virgo has 28 days and covers days 253–280 of the Gaian year · Gaiad chapters 253–280.