Orbit

Each day is read on the eight life areas the life timeline uses (Health, Family, Money, Love, Work, Identity, Friends and Pressure) at four speeds at once: the decade luck in force that day, the yearly luck, the monthly luck and the day itself. Each speed also has a place on the twelve-stage cycle of growth and rest. That makes forty numbers a day.

Orbit folds those forty into the three directions along which this life's days differ most, and turns each one to run with age. Days that read alike sit near each other; days that read differently sit apart. The directions are found for each life on its own, so two people's shapes are not on one scale.

What lasts longer counts for more. The decade carries 53% of a dot's place, the year 27%, the month 13% and the day 7%, each half of the one slower than it. So a dot sits mostly where its decade and year put it, and the window shows the day's own reading.

• Steps (canonical): each luck pillar holds until the next one begins, so the days of one span sit together and the path climbs as a staircase. This is how the tradition counts luck.
• Thread (curated): the spans joined into one continuous line, for visualization only. Nothing in the tradition says one span flows into the next, so the drawing is labelled curated wherever it appears.

Orbit opens on Thread, and Steps is one switch away. The two are the same days with the same readings; only the line between them differs.

Tap any dot, or step a day at a time, and the window shows that day:

• the date and your age;
• the four pillars running that day (decade, year, month and day), drawn with the marks My Chart uses, and the date the decade luck began;
• the year's stage on the twelve-stage cycle, from Emerging to Growing;
• the day's reading in the eight life areas, as bars.

Before the first decade luck opens, the month pillar stands in for it, and the window marks it with an asterisk. The first day carries your glyph, and on the sample life a sunrise. You can zoom to the day's decade, year or month, or go straight to any date.

The dots are coloured by age to begin with. Settings can colour them by any one life area instead, the four speeds blended at the same weights that place a dot: crimson where the area reads difficult, blue where it reads good, grey between. Both scales were chosen so the three common kinds of colour blindness can read them.

A noble star marks a decade (large) or a year (small) whose branch is one of your day element's two helping positions. Violet means a clash meets it; hollow means it sits in your day pillar's void. Both weaken the help, and neither removes it. A star is a mark only: no score moves. Settings can hide the stars or change their size.

Every number is the engine's, computed from your chart. No language model writes or chooses anything in Orbit, and the readings are leanings for reflection, not predictions.

Which way decade luck turns depends on gender. If your profile does not say, Orbit draws your decades every ten years from birth, always forward, and a line above the drawing says they are approximate. You can answer there, and the answer is saved to your profile.