American poet
A Leap Day birth does not force the passenger into a single side of the calendar. It opens a threshold between two consecutive Galactic Signatures: the February 28 Kin carries the current entering 0.0 Hunab Ku; the March 1 Kin carries the current emerging from it. Birth time can indicate which current was strongest at the moment of arrival, but the complete Leap Day identity holds both signatures.
The current entering 0.0 Hunab Ku — this kin carries the day until local noon.
Full Kin 131 page →
The current emerging from 0.0 Hunab Ku — this kin carries the day from local noon onward.
Full Kin 132 page →Birth time is unknown, so both sides of the Leap Day threshold remain open. You may explore both Galactic Signatures and notice which one speaks most strongly to your life — or how the two work together. The boundary is local noon (12:00); birth time tends to emphasize one current — it never removes the other.
Every pattern section below continues both currents — Kin 131 entering, Kin 132 emerging. The station's stored technical index files this record under Kin 132 for the kin rosters and directories only; within the Space Station Plaza system the Leap Day identity itself remains dual throughout. At local noon the day passes from the entering to the emerging current.
Each side of the Leap Day threshold opens its own Destiny Pattern. The entering current reveals the Oracle carried into 0.0 Hunab Ku; the emerging current reveals the Oracle carried forward from the center.
Guiding Power is an overseeing and directing energy providing protection, clarity and guidance. Your Guiding Power is the same color as your sign — you share similar energy. Your perfect guide carries the same tone as you.
Blue Magnetic Monkey
The Antipode is a challenge power which counterbalances and strengthens — your mirror to your inner world. Antipodes can serve as teachers who remind us to make good choices.
Red Magnetic Dragon
Your own tribe — the seal you carry through the count. Click to meet the whole tribe.
Blue Magnetic Monkey
Guiding Power is an overseeing and directing energy providing protection, clarity and guidance. Your Guiding Power is the same color as your sign — you share similar energy. Your perfect guide carries the same tone as you.
Yellow Lunar Seed
The Antipode is a challenge power which counterbalances and strengthens — your mirror to your inner world. Antipodes can serve as teachers who remind us to make good choices.
White Lunar Wind
Your own tribe — the seal you carry through the count. Click to meet the whole tribe.
Yellow Lunar Human
The two Galactic Signatures may enter 0.0 Hunab Ku from different positions in the 13-tone journey. Their Wavespells reveal the larger evolutionary movements surrounding the Leap Day threshold.
Here the two currents share one Wavespell: Kin 131 (Entering, tone 1) and Kin 132 (Emerging, tone 2) are consecutive days of the same 13-tone journey — so one Wavespell is shown with both positions lit.
Kin 131 and Kin 132 ride the Blue Monkey wavespell · kin 131–143
From the still point of 0.0 Hunab Ku, two Destiny Paths unfold. The entering path develops from the February 28 Kin; the emerging path develops from the March 1 Kin. Together they reveal two parallel ways the Leap Day identity can mature across a lifetime. The birthdate itself stays February 29 on every row — only the Kin current differs.
Your 52-Year Destiny Path is easy to follow on Space Station Plaza. Simply scroll down to see your life journey mapped from birth through age 104.
The cycle begins at age 0 with your Galactic Signature. Each year, your path moves through the four Solar Seals of your Earth Family while advancing by one of the 13 Galactic Tones. Together, the seal and tone reveal the energetic theme of each journey around the Sun.
On your 52nd birthday, you return to the same Galactic Signature you carried at birth. One complete Destiny Path has been fulfilled, and a new 52-year cycle begins. This marks your passage into elderhood—but you might think of yourself as a “baby elder,” entering a second childhood filled with renewed wonder, wisdom, and possibility.
The traditional Maya count continues through February 29, giving the day one continuous historical root. Dreamspell pauses at 0.0 Hunab Ku and opens two adjacent Galactic currents. Each current combines with the same Maya root to form its own Galactic Mayan Unified Code.
The traditional counts move directly through February 29, so this root is one and the same beneath both Unified Codes below — it repeats in each synthesis by design, not by accident. One root · two branches.
The Entering Unified Code joins Kin 131 · Blue Magnetic Monkey — Play * Illusion * Magic, carried on the Magnetic tone of purpose — with the one continuous Maya root of the actual February 29: 9 Imix (Crocodile / Waterlily / Dragon), Long Count 12.15.5.15.1. The February 28 Galactic current names the archetype this identity is evolving toward; the Maya root holds the inherited pattern it grows from. Their meeting is Unified Kin 192 · Yellow Planetary Human — its gift flows with the guiding power of Yellow Sun, its Shadow Wisdom is worked through the challenge of White Wind, and its hidden resource rests with Red Self-Existing Moon.
The Emerging Unified Code joins Kin 132 · Yellow Lunar Human — Influence * Wisdom * Free Will, carried on the Lunar tone of challenge — with the one continuous Maya root of the actual February 29: 9 Imix (Crocodile / Waterlily / Dragon), Long Count 12.15.5.15.1. The March 1 Galactic current names the archetype this identity is evolving toward; the Maya root holds the inherited pattern it grows from. Their meeting is Unified Kin 193 · Red Spectral Skywalker — its gift flows with the guiding power of Red Skywalker, its Shadow Wisdom is worked through the challenge of Blue Night, and its hidden resource rests with Yellow Electric Star.
A Leap Day birth holds one continuous Maya root and two Galactic Dreamspell pathways. Neither code corrects the other: both are complete syntheses emerging from the same still center.
Historical-event comparisons are intentionally paused here. On 0.0 Hunab Ku, Space Station Plaza holds the two Kin currents in balance rather than allowing one historical record stream to dominate the threshold.
Howard Nemerov was born on Leap Day · 0.0 Hunab Ku · Galactic Alignment Day. These three writings hold the larger framework behind this page: one exact February 29 birthday, the Entering Kin and the Emerging Kin, the two complete Destiny pathways, and the two Galactic Mayan Unified Codes — and the community dialogue about which Kin pathway most strongly resonates with Howard Nemerov. Even when a birth time is known, the question stays open: the Entering Current, the Emerging Current, both, or neither conclusively.
The traditional Mayan Long Count (traditional count, GMT-584283) — the same reading the Cosmic Identity Map gives. The continuous count moves directly through February 29 — this one root supports both Unified Codes above.
Imix — Crocodile / Waterlily / Dragon. Primordial waters, birth, nourishment, the cosmic womb.
Its number 9 is Bolon — Greater Cycles - Mobilize. The gestation chamber. Deep earth/underworld power. Cycles ripening toward fruition. The thirteen sacred numbers cycle with the twenty day-signs to weave the 260-day Tzolk'in.
The Long Count (12.15.5.15.1) tallies the days elapsed since the Maya creation date of 11 August 3114 BCE, in units of baktun, katun, tun, uinal and kin — the same count that famously reached 13.0.0.0.0 on 21 December 2012. The Haab is the 365-day solar year of eighteen 20-day months plus five days; together, Tzolk'in and Haab lock into the 52-year Calendar Round. This is the traditional count, still kept by Maya daykeepers today.
Howard's birthdate — February 29, 1920 — cast across every system aboard the station.
