41. Lunar years are shorter than solar years by about 10 or 11 days per year, and this adds up over the centuries. 42. In general, there are 11 or 12 complete months and 2 incomplete months, which contains the winter solstice, in a solar year . 43. Once the Sun moves into your birth sign on Sunday a new solar year begins and anything is possible _ well, almost anything. 44. These excess days are epacts, and are added to the day of the solar year to determine the day of the lunar year. 45. So Gregory dropped 10 days and corrected the number of leap years to make the calendar correspond more closely to the solar year . 46. In 6000 BC, the December solstice solar year had a length of 50 : 35 in excess of 365 days and 5 hours. 47. It would catch up a lunar year to a solar year because twelve lunar months are 1.3906 days short of one solar year. 48. There are seven leap months in every 19 years to make the average lunar month of 29.5 days correspond to the solar year . 49. The calendar is based on the cycles of the moon and is synchronized with the solar year by adding extra months at fixed intervals. 50. This fact is important since the Festivals in the Jewish year must fall in a particular season and seasons depend on the solar year .
