Used AI tools to help research and test different symbolic correspondences - ran multiple iterations until the mappings felt coherent for both the tarot archetypes and the constellation stories.
- Code: All source code is licensed under the MIT License. See
LICENSEfor details. - Creative Content: The Cygni Arcana artwork, tarot card designs, visualizations, and documentation (e.g., in
generated/) are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). Commercial use, such as tarot card decks, artwork prints, or exhibitions, requires a separate agreement with Oliver Staats for licensing fees or royalties. SeeCONTENT-LICENSE.mdfor details. - Relation to Hieroglyphic Cosmos: Hieroglyphic Cosmos builds on the methodology of Cygni Arcana by mapping Egyptian hieroglyphs to stellar positions. Its code is licensed under the MIT License, and its creative content is under CC BY-NC 4.0. The copyright holder, Oliver Staats, has granted permission to use the Cygni Arcana methodology in Hieroglyphic Cosmos.
- For commercial use inquiries, contact Oliver Staats at olambo@gmail.com.
Cygni Arcana is a Python project that maps notable stars, including those in the Cygnus constellation, to tarot cards (Major and Minor Arcana) based on their galactic coordinates. The project visualizes these mappings in a plot, positioning stars relative to the Galactic Center (GC) and the Galactic Anti-Center (GAC) using their distances and longitudes.
- Maps 22 Major Arcana cards and the 4 Minor Arcana suits to 26 notable stars (e.g., Deneb, Albireo, Sirius), such as "The Sun" (Sol) and "The High Priestess" (Deneb).
- Converts galactic polar coordinates (distance, longitude) to a 2D plot.
- Uses matplotlib to generate a visual representation, saved as
cygni_arcana_plot.png.
Run the main script to generate the tarot-star plot:
uv run src/cygni_arcana/tarot_map.py
The script generates a plot saved as cygni_arcana_plot.png in the project root. The plot displays stars with their tarot assignments, distances, and Roman numerals (for Major Arcana), color-coded by star properties.
The generated plot shows:
- Stars positioned along the x-axis based on their position relative to the Milky Way's clockwise galactic rotation, as viewed from galactic north. Stars "ahead" of Sol are on the left, and stars "behind" are on the right.
- The y-axis represents ordinal ranking by distance from the Galactic Center, with Sagittarius A* ("Wheel of Fortune") at the top and stars like Betelgeuse ("The Tower") further down.
- Labels include star name, distance (in light-years), and tarot card (e.g., "Deneb(1500 ly) The High Priestess(II)").
For inquiries, contact Oliver Staats at olambo@gmail.com.
Future enhancements may include interactive visualizations or alternative plotting styles.