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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.
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 decanal system handles the ten-day cycle beautifully. But what connects thirty-six decans into a readable year? What connects years into a life? Seven nested layers of time, each with naming conventions and review cadences, built on a five-thousand-year-old foundation and extended with systems thinking.
After thirty-six decans under thirty-six stars, five days remain that belong to no star at all. The ancient Egyptians called them the epagomenal days and considered them both dangerous and sacred: outside the protection of ordinary time, but also outside its constraints. These are the days between what was and what will be.