Nice and convienient for how old are you/what year is it calculations, but puts a different slant on the "birthday" celebrations, if any. Less of the "today is the day you become 18 and therefore adult", more "it's your birthday, oh and you seem to be about 17 and a half".
Do other people use this system, too?
> People do know the day they were born.
Thought so. If you keep track of whose holy day is when, you know what day it is.
> Do you have any ideas?
My vague thought so far was that the day you're born on (not under your control, or anyone else's really) is Significant in some way or other - what is it auspicious for, that sort of thing. Not "astrology" as such, because the stars probably aren't the most important part of it, but something. Therefore, your birthday is significant enough to notice, and the anniversary of it may be worth noting in some way, whereas things like initiation day, as you say, will be on days which are already important for other reasons. (Like having a RW birthday at Xmas.)
I'd guess that *how* a birthday is celebrated varies wildly. I'm just checking whether it's GAG that it's celebrated at all.
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