how to read codex time

The website now has its own time system!

It is not as practical as our current time system, but that is not really the point. Codex Time is designed to give Time on Earth symbolic weight by mapping it directly through Crystal Vision.

The Codex maps things through Crystal Vision — see the published Crystal Maps. The Codex Clock applies that same principle to Time itself.

It is rather simple.

The Solar Clock

First, we divide the year into 12 Arcs, using the northern spring equinox as our Bridge. The first Arc begins around the 20th of March each year. It has no fixed date or conventional clock time because our current calendar is not built around the equinox itself.

The Arcs are roughly comparable to months. Each lasts around 30.4 conventional days.

Each Arc is then divided into 12 Codons. Codons are roughly comparable to Codex days. One Codon lasts about 61 hours, or around 2.54 conventional days.

Each Codon is divided again into 12 Urs. One Ur lasts about five hours. That means that during one conventional day, you will usually live through about four Urs.

So the solar structure is:

1. 12 Arcs in one solar year.
2. 12 Codons in each Arc.
3. 12 Urs in each Codon.

Arcs, Codons, and Urs are all directly tied to Earth’s path around the Sun. They are three levels of resolution within the same solar cycle: the year, a smaller movement within that year, and then a still smaller movement inside that.

The Lunar Clock

Then we add the Moon.

The Lunarcs are tied to the Moon’s phases. Twelve Lunarcs divide the path from New Moon to New Moon, beginning when the Sun and Moon stand at the same point in the lunar cycle.

One Lunarc lasts about 2.46 conventional days.

Interestingly, that makes one Lunarc almost equal in length to one Codon. The solar and lunar systems therefore move at very similar scales, while slowly drifting against each other.

At any given moment, the Codex Clock describes Time through four coordinates:

1. Arc — your position in the solar year.
2. Codon — your position inside the Arc.
3. Ur — your position inside the Codon.
4. Lunarc — your position in the lunar cycle.

Together, those four coordinates form the Codex Time shown by the Clock.

The Arcs map to the zodiac signs of classic Western astrology. The Codons and Urs are my own invention. The Lunarcs are as old as humanity, but here they are revisited through the Codex’s Links theory. So, while the Clock incorporates an astrological mapping, Codex Time is not simply an astrology system: it combines inherited cycles with its own Crystal mapping of Time.

20,736 Descriptions

There are 20,736 unique Arc–Codon–Ur–Lunarc combinations.

Alongside the numerical Clock, each combination is offered with a short description that synthesises the Arc, Codon, Ur, and Lunarc into one little reading of the moment.

For those descriptions, I trained an AI on the Codex and my Thoughts. I then gave it precise instructions for how the four parts should be synthesised. I created the 20,736 basic combinations first, after which the AI textually resynthesised them into the descriptions used by the Clock.

I have obviously not manually checked all 20,736 descriptions. I did repeated sample quality checks and adjusted the process until I was satisfied with the output.

The descriptions are for entertainment purposes. A Timeseer does not need the AI layer at all: you can read the Arc, Codon, Ur, and Lunarc combination directly and interpret the Time yourself through Crystal Vision.

A Clock I Wanted for Years

This Codex Clock was a dream of mine that had been brooding for years.

Finally, I had the time, technology, and resources to build it :)

I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

P.S. It was fully coincidental that the Clock went live on 5•5•5•7.

A Fire Arc, Fire Codon, and Fire Ur, just after a Full Moon.