A New Paradigm of Time
Welcome to the MONAD Calendar-Clock app; A New Paradigm of Time. The MONAD app is a Stage 2 prototype, meaning it’s not yet fully developed, but it is more advanced than your typical prototype. MONAD already has many useful and educational features so you might as well get started using it.
MONAD has four main Modes of operation (Helio, Geo, Astro & Event) and all four Modes have useful features that you can explore right now. You can learn a great deal about astronomy, space and time, by using MONAD, but the one feature you will probably find most useful on a daily basis is the scheduling program. So let’s start with:
Event Mode
The MONAD Event Manager allows you to create and manage both Health and Regular (calendar) events. MONAD, with a 24 hour circadian clock face, is especially suited to create, organize and display Health events. MONAD is all about biorhythms, both personal and planetary biorhythms. Health Event Mode is where you record your personal biorhythms in the context of planetary biorhythms we all share. Health Event Mode is where you can create and maintain a Chronobiological Health Journal.
Health Event Mode allows a User to create 4 color-coded categories of Health Events associated with the four elements: EARTH is green (Sleep), WATER is blue (Eat), AIR is purple (Move) and FIRE is red (Think). Sleep & Eat are associated with parasympathetic activities; Move & Think are associated with sympathetic activities. As such, the organization of color-coded Health Event Wedges placed around the number dial, based on the rhythmic re-occurrence of various Health Events, describes various endocrine biorhythms. (To better understand the significance and value of these endocrine biorhythm, check out the following links: Chronobiology and Autonomic Alternation.)
When you’re ready to get started and use MONAD to create your own Chronobiological Health Journal, then check out this Screen Recording Video where I demonstrate how to record Health Events: H2Record Day Charts.
Further Stage 3 programming (Health Event Mode) will make this feature much more powerful and easier to use and will offer summary screens and chronobiological suggestions for improving your health, but don’t wait, you might as well get started now, and start learning about the all important rhythm of events that make up your life.
Now, Tap the “Calendar Button” (located between ‘Eat’ and ‘Move’ Buttons), and this will take you to Regular Event Mode:
Regular Event Mode still needs a bit of programming to get it fully operational. You can schedule regular, calendar events, but the Stage 2 Prototype only allows you to import one Calendar (‘Work’ in this case) at a time. Eventually you will be able to select, import and display four different color coded, regular calendars like ‘Work’, ‘Sport’, ‘Church’, ‘Home’, etc.
Our goal for Stage 3 programming is to make the MONAD Event Manager the only scheduling program you will ever need. We will be adding a unique All Day Events feature which will serve as important Index headings to your history of events. We will add weekly, monthly and yearly calendar formats. And our modular organization of data will add an unprecedented “Roots and Branches” feature, which will make it easy to search and find anything in your archive of memory.
If you want to get back to Health Event Mode, tap the Heart-in-a-circle Symbol. And, by the way, it’s not obvious how to get out of Event Mode into a different Mode, like Astro Mode. If you want to explore one of the other 3 Modes, pinch the screen and you will end up in:
Astro Mode
The Table at the top of the screen in Astro Mode shows the precise location of the Sun, Moon and planets (Declination & Right Ascension) at any time and date. Simply drag the Hour Hand (slow), Calendar Band (medium) or Zodiac Band (fast) to set the time and date. Any time and date has a unique configuration of the solar system associated with it. Drag the time back to your birth date and you will generate your birth chart.
You are creating the equivalent of an astrology or astronomy chart at any moment in time. For those of you used to astrology charts, the orientation of an astrology chart is such that the midhaven is aligned vertically at the top of the chart. In Astro Mode, the Hour Hand is equivalent to the midhaven, so to orient the chart so that it is familiar, simply rotate the MONAD screen until the Hour Hand is pointing straight up.
Astro Mode will eventually feature both a Scientific Astrology Program and an Educational Astronomy Program, the likes of which you have never seen before. Check out Stage 4 Programming goals if you want to see some of the new additions that are coming to Astro, Geo and Helio Modes. Now let’s check out:
Geo Mode
Geo Mode features a 3 dimensional planet Earth (with a time zone-spanning Hour Hand) at the center of a 3 dimensional, time- and date-telling celestial ring. The outside of the celestial ring shows the signs of the zodiac, while the inside of the celestial ring shows the constellations, including the constellations of the zodiac that are centered on the ecliptic, which is a great red circle marked on the celestial ring, tilted 23.5º relative to the celestial equator (the green circle, which is where the 24 hour number dial for telling time is located, just inside the celestial ring).
Note that at the base of the Hour Hand is a small green sphere, which represents your location on the globe. If you allow MONAD to access your location, this green sphere (and the Hour Hand) will be automatically placed at the proper location to reflect your body’s actual location in 4 dimensional space-time on planet Earth.
The User interface at the bottom of the screen allows you to experiment with moving your location (and the location of the Hour Hand) anywhere around the globe. You can change the time zone and/or the latitude of the Hour Hand and see how this impacts the Twilight Dial, which always shows the time of Sun rise and Sun set. The greater the latitude (away from the equator = 0º), the greater the impact there is on the proportion of night and day, especially approaching the solstices.
And even if you don’t shift the time zone of the Hour Hand, moving the little green sphere across the base of the Hour Hand, which is 15º wide at the base, note how this has an impact on the time of Sun rise and Sun set because the Hour Hand tells mean solar time, but Sun rise and Sun set are based on local solar time. I’ll make a video to explain more about this soon. (Remember to Tap the HERE button when you’re done messing around so that the Hour Hand is set to the appropriate location when you use MONAD to tell the time and date in other applications, like Event Mode.)
OK, we’ve got one more Mode to check out:
Helio Mode
Helio or heliocentric Mode has the same User Interface as Geo Mode, but instead of Earth at the center of the screen, the Sun is at the center. The real value of Helio Mode is in comparison to Geo Mode. I like to accelerate through time; slow, medium or fast, and switch back and forth between Geo and Helio Modes. This is especially useful and interesting if you are studying the phenomena of retrograde motion of the planets. (It’s also useful to involve Astro Mode because by dragging the calendar band or zodiac band, you can determine the precise moment when the planets appear to move retrograde.) Then switch back to Geo Mode or Helio Mode to see it all in glorious 3 dimensional motion.
Retrograde activity has a different mechanism for the inner planets (Mercury and Venus) than it does for the outer planets. I’ll make a video to demonstrate and explain more about this soon.
I hope that’s enough for you to feel that you got your 99¢ worth. With Stage 3 programming, every Mode will have significant improvements and additions, making it easier to use and understand. Eventually MONAD will be the ultimate program for almost anything having to do with planetary space and time.