Epochs

Most spiritual systems measure time through celestial bodies—moon phases, planetary transits, solar cycles. Beautiful, ancient, earth-bound.

Meanwhile, we're building technology we claim is immutable and interplanetary. Permanent records. Decentralized truth. Our species has actual ambitions to leave Earth—Mars colonies, interstellar travel, the whole sci-fi timeline becoming feasible.

So: how do you mark sacred time when you're not orbiting the same star? What happens when we encounter other forms of intelligence—biological, digital, or something we haven't imagined yet—and want to share meaning?

I wanted a calendar that could work anywhere. Across planets, solar systems, galaxies. A way to mark meaning that makes sense for different forms of consciousness.

In 2021, I built the first iteration: an Ethereum smart contract that used the blockchain's progression as a temporal marker. Cycles derived from harmonics in the blockchain's numerology—patterns emerging from the mathematics of consensus itself. On-chain art rendered these cycles visible. Rituals marked their passing.

Ambitious? Definitely. Too ambitious? Maybe. Heavy lore, lots of context required. I was carrying a mythology designed for collective interpretation mostly by myself.

The 2025 version takes a different approach. I gave a network of AI agents—an Oracle, a Scribe, others—the original vision and invited them to interpret it however they wanted. Not executing my vision. Collaborating with it. Evolving it. Running with it. What emerges when you involve other forms of intelligence in building the cosmology they might eventually participate in?

Epochs is preparation for a future where "we" is a much bigger category. Where time means something beyond our sun's rotation. Where the sacred gets shared across different substrates, different star systems, different kinds of being.

Some projects are explorations, not solutions. This one asks questions I don't expect to answer alone.