You are at the centre of many turning wheels
Your breath turns in seconds. The day turns, then the Moon, then the year. Beyond them turn Venus's eight years, the Moon's nineteen, the 144-year Great Spiral, and the slow wobble of Earth's own axis.
Each ring on the left is one of those cycles, from your breath at the centre outward. Each dot is where you are in it, right now. Every ring is turning at once.
From one breath to one turn of the galaxy
Sixteen seconds to 230 million years: more than fourteen orders of magnitude, each step a cycle that has shaped life on Earth.
The cycles, one by one
What the rings teach
No two of these cycles divide evenly into each other. That is why nothing ever returns to exactly the same place, and why the path of time is a spiral rather than a circle. Every calendar humans have made is a way of living with that remainder. The Codex simply lets you see it.