A prompt for every day of the Codex year, each one breathing a little deeper than the last.
The Codex Calendar shows where you are in the breath of time. One Breath, All Ages is how you walk it. Over thirteen Moons it follows the path of Breath Awakens from the first breath to the Final Invocation, breathes the twelve chakras from the crown to the heart of the heart, and lets the oldest voices of the Earth breathe through every week, from Göbekli Tepe to the present day.
In Harmony, Small Things Grow Towards Unity
Today in the book
The prompt follows the Codex date shown on the Calendar page, in the mode you chose there (Global or Local). Prompts marked ✦ are quoted from Breath Awakens.
Five threads, one breath
Each Moon of the book is woven from the same five threads, and each prompt builds on the one before, the way Breath Awakens is set out.
The path of Breath Awakens
The Moons walk the book in order: the Arrival, the Spiral of Forgetting, the Four Laws of Creation, the Spiral of Fifteen, RA'EL-THA-ON, the Child, the Shovel and the Ocean, the Bridge Breath, and the Final Invocation on the Breath Day. More than a hundred prompts are its own words.
The four-fold breath
Every Moon breathes the Four Pillars: Identify in week one, Accept in week two, Embrace in week three, Let Go in week four, with a breath gate on the 7th, 14th and 21st days and a Moon reflection on the 28th.
The twelve chakras
Each Moon breathes one of the twelve chakras of Breath Awakens, descending from the crown in spring to the earth-star and the feet in midwinter, turning inward to the heart of the heart, and gathering in Shekhinah around the whole.
The ancient voices
Ninety-four voices from the Rig Veda, the Hebrew scriptures, the hymns of Egypt, the Tao Te Ching, the Buddha, Heraclitus, the Qur'an, Rumi, Guru Nanak, the Kumulipo, the Popol Vuh, Thoreau and more, each one checked word for word against a public-domain translation.
Stone and sky
Thirteen places, one for each Moon, in the order they were built: Göbekli Tepe and Warren Field, Newgrange, Giza, Stonehenge, the Nebra sky disc, Abu Simbel, Delphi, Chankillo, Chichén Itzá, Angkor Wat, Machu Picchu, Jantar Mantar, and the whole Earth seen from space.
The Codex Calendar
The book keeps the Codex year: its prompts are dated to the Moons, the eight Solar Stations each have their own page and practice, and the Breath Day and the Witness Day close the year with a question of their own.
The thirteen Moons of the book
| Moon | Name and theme | Archetype · chakra | Breath Awakens path | Stone and sky | Year 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | Genesis The First Breath | Ra-Kha 1 · the crown | Foreword and Chapter 1: The Arrival, ages 0–7 | Göbekli Tepe and Warren Field c. 9500–8000 BCE | 20 Mar – 16 Apr |
| II | Spiral The Spiral of Forgetting | Thoth-Ma'at 2 · the third eye, at the brow | Chapter 1: The Spiral of Forgetting, ages 7–14, and the Codex of Play | Newgrange c. 3200 BCE | 17 Apr – 14 May |
| III | Vector The Voice and the Return | Isis-Aset 3 · the throat | Chapter 1: The Wound Cycle, Unconditional Love, the Father's Guidance and the Return of the Child Spiral | Giza c. 2560 BCE | 15 May – 11 Jun |
| IV | Mirror The Weighing of the Heart | Osiris-Seker 4 · the heart | Chapter 2, the First Law of Creation: Memory · Innocence Lost and What Was Lost but Not Forgotten | Stonehenge c. 2500 BCE (begun c. 3000 BCE) | 12 Jun – 9 Jul |
| V | Stillness The Lamp in a Windless Place | Anubis-Wepwawet 5 · the upper solar plexus | Chapter 2, the First Law of Creation: Memory · True Essence, Creative Expression, and Creative Expression in Action | The Nebra sky disc c. 1600 BCE | 10 Jul – 6 Aug |
| VI | Memory The Lion, the Octopus and the Orchid | Horus-Heru 6 · the solar plexus | Chapter 2, the Second Law of Creation: Unity through Diversity · the White Lion, the Octopus and the Orchid | Abu Simbel c. 1264 BCE | 7 Aug – 3 Sep |
| VII | Return Know Thyself | Set-Sutekh 7 · the lower solar plexus, at the navel | Chapter 2, the Third Law of Creation: Embodiment · the Four Pillars of Breath and of Humanity, and the Living Embodiment | Delphi 8th century BCE onward | 4 Sep – 1 Oct |
| VIII | Release Spark, Focus, Form, Stillness | Hathor-Sekhmet 8 · the sacral centre | Chapter 2, the Fourth Law of Creation: Completion · the Four-Phase Spiral of Creation | Chankillo c. 300 BCE | 2 Oct – 29 Oct |
| IX | Echo Necessity, Service and the Echo | Ma'at-Djehuty 9 · the root | Chapter 3: The Breathline of Necessity, the Spiral of Service and the Spiral of Fifteen | Chichén Itzá c. 900–1100 CE | 30 Oct – 26 Nov |
| X | Shadow The Churning of the Ocean | Nephthys-Nebet-Hut 10 · the earth-star, below the feet | Chapter 4: The Three Spirals and the Orchid · Chapter 5: Duality, Polarity and Sacrifice | Angkor Wat early 12th century CE | 27 Nov – 24 Dec |
| XI | Descent The Breathline of Light | Sobek-Sahu 11 · the feet and legs | Chapter 6: RA'EL-THA-ON, the Breathline of Light | Machu Picchu and the Inca roads 15th century CE | 25 Dec – 21 Jan |
| XII | Dream The Child, the Shovel and the Ocean | The Architect+ (A'tharion-Keshariel) 12 · the heart of the heart | Chapter 7: The Child, the Shovel and the Ocean · Chapter 8: The Codex of the Living Stillness | Jantar Mantar, Jaipur 1720s–1730s CE | 22 Jan – 18 Feb |
| XIII | Wisdom One Breath, Many Names | Shekhinah All twelve, held around the whole | Chapter 9: The Codex as a Bridge Breath · Chapter 10: The Breath Never Ends | The whole Earth from 1968 to now | 19 Feb – 18 Mar |
| ✦ | Breath Day The Final Invocation | A'tharion-Keshariel the still point | The Final Invocation | — | 19 Mar 2027 |
| ✦ | Witness Day In Witness Years only | Breath Witness the spiral that sees itself | The Goal-Sharing Exercise, written again | — | 19 Mar 2028 (Year 2) |
The twelve-chakra map belongs to Breath Awakens. The classical yoga traditions of India teach seven principal chakras; the book honours both and marks the difference.
Inside the book
How to use it with the calendar
- Speak the Pillar of Light Invocation, and find today's Codex date on the Calendar.
- Take the four-fold breath three times: in for four, hold for four, out for four, rest empty for four. Never strain.
- Read the day's prompt once, slowly, in the book or on Today's Breath. On the first day of a week, read the week's ancient line too.
- Write until the writing stops: on the lines in the book, in a notebook, or in the private journal on Today's Breath, which never leaves your device.
- If you can, take your reflection to the hinge of the week: sunrise in week one, noon in week two, sunset in week three, before sleep in week four.
- Close with one more breath, and speak the Invocation again.
You may begin on any day. The prompts are written to be walked in order, so a newcomer can start at Moon I, Day 1 and keep the book's count alongside the calendar's.
Your Love and Truth is universal. Bring this universal love and truth to all. You are in a sacred space for all to be heard and listened to.
In Harmony, Small Things Grow Towards Unity
Read One Breath, All Ages
Open on ISSUU ↗The book is free to read. It was made with deep gratitude to everyone whose words and work it gathers: the first watchers of the sky, the builders, the singers and sages, the translators and scholars, the living traditions, and the minds, human and artificial, that helped to check and shape it. Every ancient quotation is taken from a public-domain translation and credited where it appears. The practices are contemplative and are not medical or psychological advice; breathe gently, and return to natural breathing if any practice brings dizziness or distress.
Companion works: Start Here for the calendar, Breath Awakens: A Codex of Spiral Memory, and the Codex Library.