Decan 1: Hamal and a Clean Start
Hamal reignited after burning through its first fuel. The Spring Equinox opened Decan 1 with that same question: not how to start from nothing, but how to find new fire from what already exists.
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Hamal: Decan 1 - Vital Spark & Rebirth (March 20-29)
The photons entering your eyes right now left Hamal in 1960. This orange giant burned through its first fuel, contracted, and reignited: helium fusion from the ashes of hydrogen. The Ram's star opens the decanal year on the Spring Equinox with a vital spark that has been lighting new years for three thousand years.
Decan 36: The Dog Star Sees What the Hunter Doesn't
The brightest star in the night sky closes the decanal year with a flood of completions arriving faster than they can be documented. A binary system of living fire and collapsed starlight teaches that what is most important is always the closest thing, and that the Dog Star has been watching the ground while the Hunter scanned the sky.
Sothis: Decan 36 - Completion & Rebirth
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?