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The photons entering your eyes right now left Sirius in 2017. The brightest star in the night sky earns that title not through raw luminosity but through proximity, and the lesson it teaches about power has governed civilizations for three thousand years.
The photons entering your eyes right now left Sothis in 2017. Not centuries ago. Not millennia. Eight years. You remember 2017. You lived it. After months of receiving ancient light from distant supergiants, the final decan of the year brings you face to face with light from your own lifetime, from a star so close it feels personal, asking the only question that matters at the end of a cycle: What have you become?