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The photons entering your eyes right now left Capella in 1982. Two yellow giants, locked in a 104-day orbit, sent this light together from 43 light-years away. The star that never sets opens Decan 5 with the ancient question of what is worth protecting and what protection costs the guardian who provides it.
The photons entering your eyes right now left Aldebaran in 1960. This K5 III orange giant spent six billion years on the main sequence, fusing hydrogen in obscurity, before expanding into a star 439 times brighter than the Sun. The Bull's eye opens Decan 2 with a teaching older than the Earth itself: foundation precedes greatness, and endurance is the price of expansion.
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.
The photons entering your eyes right now left Algol in 1932. For three thousand years called cursed, this eclipsing binary star reveals how challenges follow rhythms and obstacles become fuel. December 15-24: face what blocks your light, consume its mass, emerge brighter.
The photons entering your eyes right now left Mirach around 1825. For thousands of years this warm orange star marked the girdle. The center, the waist, the place where forces balance. December 5-14: allow reflection to reveal what action concealed, let compassion tend wounds liberation exposed.
Scheat, the unstable red giant of Pegasus—196 light-years distant, pulsating and shedding mass, representing transformation through risk and innovation from instability. A decan of daring and creative destruction.