The Decan Log

Decanal journaling: keeping time, and keeping a record, by the sky.

The Decan Log is a daily journaling practice built on the decans: the thirty-six ten-day stretches the old Egyptians used to divide the year by the rising of the stars. Each decan is a chapter of the year and a prompt for the day. The practice is simple: you let the current decan set the theme, and you write against it, one entry at a time, until the record itself becomes a map of the year you actually lived.

It is where the larger framework stops being an idea and becomes a habit. The day gets a shape from the sky, you meet it, and you leave a clue for the version of you who reads it back. Over a full turn of the wheel, the entries stop being a diary and start being evidence.

Where it sits

The Decan Log is the daily practice underneath Coherent Complexity, and it is the engine that grounds People of the Stars: the place where the texture of a given day gets read and recorded instead of theorized. If you want the idea before the practice, start with what decanal journaling is.

The book

The Decan Log is also a book: a chapter for each decan of the year, star by star, a calendar for conscious living that you can read straight through or one decan at a time.

The journals

The series written so far. The practice began mid-cycle, at decan 29, and came around to the start.

Start with these

  1. What Is Decanal Journaling? The 36-Star Calendar and the Practice

    Decanal journaling is a practice built on the 36-star Egyptian calendar: ten-day cycles, each ruled by a bright fixed star, replacing the arbitrary seven-day week. This is the explainer page for the practice and the framework underneath it.

  2. What Is People of the Stars? A Non-Human Clock for Decision-Making

    People of the Stars (POTS) is a temporal intelligence framework that uses real astronomical data as a non-human clock for decision-making, with positioning logic borrowed from options trading. This is the explainer page for the framework and how it sits alongside decanal journaling.

Series

Everything in Time and the decans (46)

Essays (2)
Projects (3)
Journal (31)
Free Writing (10)

Where to go next