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Source Library

The Cosmic Identity Map brings many traditions into one view without suggesting that they are historically identical or interchangeable. This Source Library identifies the books, institutions, lineages, calculation standards, cultural resources, and modern syntheses that inform each section of the map. It is both a record of our methodology and a collection of doorways for deeper exploration.

Each system below is labelled with the provenance classification Space Station Plaza gives it — Historical Tradition, Living Tradition, Modern Synthesis, Modern Revival, Symbolic Correspondence or SSP Synthesis — so the age and kind of every lineage stays plain.

Kinds of sources

Primary or Lineage Source
the tradition or lineage speaking for itself — a founding organization, a court, a school, a community of practitioners
Cultural Institution
museums, observatories, government calendar offices and cultural bodies that document a tradition without owning it
Academic Source
peer-reviewed scholarship and university teaching resources
Foundational Text
the book or manuscript a system grew from, cited so its age and authorship are plain
Calculation Standard
the astronomical or calendrical standard SSP calculates against
Calculator or Verification Tool
an independent calculator you can use to check a date for yourself
Introductory Learning Resource
a clear introduction for a newcomer
SSP Methodology
what Space Station Plaza itself computes, and the exact conventions it follows
Further Reading
a deeper book or study for when the introduction is not enough
System 01 · Dreamspell

Galactic Dreamspell

Provenance: Modern Synthesis
Provenance. The Dreamspell is a modern galactic count (1990–91) that borrows the twenty day-signs and thirteen tones of the Maya tzolk’in. It is not the ancient Maya calendar and does not track the traditional Maya day count; Space Station Plaza presents both, separately, on this map.

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System 02 · Gene Keys

Gene Keys

Provenance: Modern Synthesis
Provenance. A contemporary synthesis (Richard Rudd, 2009) mapping the sixty-four I Ching hexagrams onto the Sun’s position at birth and eighty-eight days before it. Its Shadow–Gift–Siddhi spectrum and Activation Sequence vocabulary are the author’s own.

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System 03 · Numerology

Pythagorean Numerology

Provenance: Modern Synthesis · Modern Synthesis with historical philosophical roots
Provenance. Ancient Pythagorean number philosophy and the modern birth-date Life Path system are not the same thing. The Life Path, Birth Day and Attitude numbers on this map belong to twentieth-century numerology, which claims Pythagoras as an ancestor; the historical sources below describe the philosophy that name refers to.

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System 04 · Chinese Zodiac

Chinese Astrology (Zodiac Year)

Provenance: Living Tradition
SSP methodology. The zodiac year on this card turns at Chinese New Year (the second new moon after the winter solstice, computed astronomically). BaZi schools bound the year at the Li Chun solar term (about 4 February) instead — so a birth between Li Chun and New Year can legitimately carry a different animal in the BaZi card below. Neither is corrected to match the other.

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System 05 · Destiny Cards

Cards of Destiny

Provenance: Modern Synthesis · Modern Synthesis with an earlier esoteric card-system lineage
Provenance. The birth-card system descends from Olney H. Richmond’s Mystic Test Book (1893) and is taught today in the Robert Lee Camp lineage. Claims of far older origins are unsubstantiated; SSP dates the system to the nineteenth century.
SSP methodology. SSP derives the Birth Card with the standard lineage arithmetic: 55 − (2 × month + day) gives the card’s position in the natural deck order (Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds, Spades, Ace to King); a result of 0 is the Joker (31 December). The short card meanings shown on the map are SSP-authored summaries in that tradition, not quotations from any book.

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System 06 · Western Astrology

Western Astrology

Provenance: Historical Tradition
SSP methodology. SSP casts the tropical Sun and Moon signs from analytic planetary longitudes at noon on the birth date — no houses, no rising sign, no exact-time Moon unless a birth time is on record. Calculation sources and interpretive sources are kept distinct below.

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System 07 · Vedic Astrology

Vedic Astrology (sidereal summary)

Provenance: Living Tradition
SSP methodology. The compact Vedic card and the expanded Jyotish card (System 19) are two views of the same sidereal calculation — Lahiri ayanamsa, the same ephemeris — not two unrelated cosmologies. The compact card is a date-level summary; the expanded card adds the birth panchanga and, with a confirmed birth time and place, the lagna and chart.

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System 08 · Classic Maya Count

Classic Maya Calendar Round

Provenance: Historical Tradition · Historical Maya Tradition
Provenance. Three things are kept apart on this map: the Classic Maya count (this card — tzolk’in, haab, Calendar Round and Long Count under the GMT correlation), the living K’iche’ Chol Q’ij (System 12), and the modern Dreamspell (System 01).

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System 09 · Burmese Weekday Sign

Burmese Astrology · Mahabote

Provenance: Living Tradition
Cultural context. Weekday-of-birth astrology is a living practice in Myanmar — the planetary posts at every pagoda belong to it. SSP presents only the weekday sign; the fuller Mahabote reading belongs to Burmese astrologers. A Myanmar-authored or institutional public source is still being sought; until one is verified only the book citation is shown.

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System 10 · Celtic Tree Zodiac

Celtic Tree Sign

Provenance: Modern Revival
Provenance. Historical Ogham — the early-medieval Irish script whose letters carry tree names — is authentic and well documented. The familiar thirteen-month Celtic Tree Calendar of birth signs is primarily a modern system associated with Robert Graves’s The White Goddess (1948). SSP does not present the natal tree calendar as a documented ancient Druid birth-sign system.

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System 11 · Birth Runes

Birth Runes

Provenance: Symbolic Correspondence · Symbolic Correspondence · Modern Revival
Provenance. Runes and the rune poems are historical. Assigning a birth rune to a half-month of the Gregorian year is a modern symbolic correspondence (twentieth-century esoterica), and SSP describes it as exactly that — never as ancient Germanic natal astrology.

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System 12 · Chol Q'ij

Chol Q’ij

Provenance: Living Tradition · Living K’iche’ Maya Tradition
Cultural context. The Chol Q’ij is a living sacred calendar kept by Maya daykeepers (Ajq’ijab’). SSP computes the day and attributes the daykeepers’ own published source; it does not generate day meanings and does not reduce the count to a personality zodiac. Learn respectfully, from Ajq’ijab’ and Maya cultural educators.

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System 13 · SSP Unified Kin

Galactic–Mayan Unified Code

Provenance: SSP Synthesis · Emerging Synthesis
Provenance. The Unified Code is an emerging synthesis promoted and made accessible by Space Station Plaza. It was not created by ancient Maya communities, by the Smithsonian, or by the Dreamspell’s founders; those lineages are cited here for the two signatures it brings into relationship.

The Unified Code: Bridging Ancient Wisdom and Galactic Consciousness

The Unified Code offers a way to honor both the wisdom of the Traditional Maya Long Count and the insights of the Galactic Dreamspell Calendar—not by choosing one over the other, but by exploring how they may complement one another. Rather than viewing these systems as competing interpretations of time, the Unified Code invites us to approach them as two perspectives on the same evolutionary journey.

The Traditional Mayan Long Count represents our foundation—our roots, our inherited patterns, and the aspects of ourselves that have been shaped through ancestry, culture, karma, and earthly experience. It reflects the qualities we arrive with and the lessons that have brought us to this point in our evolution. In many ways, it can be understood as the archetype from which we are growing.

Your Long Count signature provides insight into the deeper structures of your personality and the patterns that influence your life. It can illuminate recurring challenges, unconscious habits, and gifts that have been cultivated over many lifetimes or generations. It offers a lens through which to understand your human experience and provides a pathway for healing, integration, and transformation. By embracing both its strengths and its shadow aspects, we develop compassion for ourselves and gain the wisdom needed to consciously evolve.

The Galactic Dreamspell Calendar offers a different perspective. Rather than focusing primarily on where we have come from, it points toward where we are going. It presents an archetype of possibility—a higher expression of consciousness that invites us to grow beyond our conditioning and embody our greatest potential. It is less about our history and more about our unfolding destiny.

The Dreamspell can be viewed as an evolutionary map that encourages us to align with higher frequencies of awareness, creativity, synchronicity, and purpose. It invites us to awaken to our role within a larger cosmic story and challenges us to become active participants in our own spiritual evolution. Rather than being limited by the identities we inherited, the Dreamspell encourages us to consciously create the person we are becoming.

Neither system should be understood as inherently "higher" or "lower," nor should one replace the other. Each contains profound wisdom as well as shadow aspects that require awareness and integration. The Long Count reminds us to honor our roots, while the Dreamspell inspires us to reach toward our highest possibilities. One grounds us in our humanity; the other expands us toward our cosmic potential.

The Unified Code emerges through the synthesis of these two archetypal systems. It is created by combining your Traditional Mayan Long Count signature with your Galactic Dreamspell signature, revealing a more complete picture of your evolutionary path. Rather than existing as separate identities, these two energies enter into a dynamic relationship, each informing and enriching the other.

This synthesis represents what we call your 5D Archetype—an integrated expression of who you are becoming when your earthly wisdom and cosmic awareness begin to operate as one. It is the bridge between your human experience and your spiritual destiny, between memory and possibility, between the Earth and the stars.

Your Unified Code encourages you to embrace every aspect of yourself. It asks you not to reject your past in pursuit of enlightenment, nor to remain defined by old patterns. Instead, it invites you to transform experience into wisdom and potential into embodied reality.

Within Space Station Plaza, the Unified Code becomes more than a calculation—it becomes a living framework for self-discovery. It serves as the foundation for personalized readings, compatibility analysis, group dynamics, historical research, and community exploration. By weaving together both calendars, it creates a richer and more holistic understanding of identity than either system can provide on its own.

Ultimately, the Unified Code reflects the belief that human evolution is not about leaving one part of ourselves behind. It is about integration. As we honor where we have come from while consciously stepping into who we are becoming, we begin to embody a more complete expression of our true nature. The Unified Code is the symbolic meeting place of those two journeys—a map of transformation that connects the wisdom of the ancient world with the possibilities of an emerging planetary consciousness.

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System 14 · Tonalpohualli

Tonalpohualli

Provenance: Historical Tradition · Historical Mexica Tradition
SSP methodology. Day signs and the thirteen-day count follow the Caso/Tena continuous correlation; other modern correlation schools can give different results, and SSP’s research record documents them without computing them.

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System 15 · BaZi (Four Pillars)

BaZi · Four Pillars

Provenance: Living Tradition
SSP methodology. Solar-term convention: the twelve jie boundaries come from SSP’s own frozen, checksummed solar-term dataset (ssp-solar-terms-v1, 1850–2200), computed from the vendored astronomy engine and cross-checked against the PRC national standard GB/T 33661-2017 and the Hong Kong Observatory tables. Year boundary: the Li Chun astronomical instant (not Chinese New Year). Month pillar: the jie boundaries, Yin month opening at Li Chun. Day pillar: a continuous sexagenary day count anchored on the Julian Day Number, every real day counted, rolling over at 00:00 local civil time (the canonical convention; 23:00–01:00 births are flagged as sensitive to the early-Zi and split-Zi schools, which are documented, not computed). Time zones: when the birthplace is resolved, its historical zone converts the instant; without one, births near a boundary are reported as boundary-sensitive under a worst-case-zone rule rather than given an invented zone. Local date: the civil date of birth as recorded. Current limitation: the public card carries three pillars. Hour Pillar: computed only on a passenger’s private dossier when a usable birth time is on record, with the same disclosures.

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System 16 · Tibetan Astrology

Tibetan Astrology

Provenance: Living Tradition
SSP methodology. Phugpa-school calendar arithmetic (the Men-Tsee-Khang’s tradition), year sign changing at Losar, civil date shown — days traditionally run dawn to dawn.

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System 17 · Javanese Weton

Javanese Weton

Provenance: Living Tradition
Cultural context. The weton — the birth pairing of the seven-day week with the five-day pasaran — is living Javanese practice, observed in the courts of Yogyakarta and Surakarta and in daily life. SSP computes the pairing; interpretation (primbon) belongs to Javanese tradition. External learning links are held until an authoritative Indonesian institutional or scholarly source is verified.
SSP methodology. Pure day-count arithmetic on the Julian Day Number: continuous seven-day and five-day cycles, every real day counted, anchored on the Sultan Agung reform date (Jumat Legi, 8 July 1633) and confirmed against published court calendar dates. The weton of the civil date of birth is shown; a labelled sunset-tradition reading is added only when a confirmed evening birth time is on record.

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System 18 · Balinese Pawukon

Balinese Pawukon · Oton

Provenance: Living Tradition
Cultural context. SSP calculates the calendar structure and the birth-date position (the oton). Traditional interpretation belongs to Balinese communities and practitioners.

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System 19 · Jyotish

Expanded Jyotish · Panchanga & Lagna

Provenance: Living Tradition
SSP methodology. The compact Vedic card (System 07) and this expanded card are two views of related sidereal calculations, not unrelated cosmologies: Lahiri (Chitrapaksha) ayanamsa, the same vendored ephemeris, panchanga limbs at the birth instant, vara sunrise-bounded. Verified against the Positional Astronomy Centre’s Rashtriya Panchang.

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