Short, clear answers to the concepts that define Hermetia. Each explanation leads deeper into the method and, if necessary, directly into your own experience.
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Basic terms to get you started: What Hermetia calculates, how core themes arise and why the soul map is not a single chart.
Terms that explain how Hermetia makes multiple systems comparable and does not count related sources twice.
Terms for trust before profile launch: AI interpretation, consent, data minimization and legally clean language.
Terms for later premium and accompanying functions: relationship evaluation, daily impulses, journaling and reviews.
A soul map is an integrated personality image that connects calculated spiritual and psychological systems to core themes, levels and reflection impulses.
Read term →At Hermetia, convergence means that several independent system families point to the same topic, resulting in a more viable core topic.
Read term →Synastry is the comparison of two profiles or horoscopes to make resonance, friction and development issues between two people visible.
Read term →AI interpretation means that a language model translates calculated profile facts into warm, understandable text. The calculation itself is not done by AI.
Read term →A core theme is a central pattern of your soul map that is supported by multiple systems or strong signals.
Read term →A field of tension describes two simultaneously effective topics that clash and thereby make development potential visible.
Read term →A theme signal is a standardized theme that is calculated from one system and can be compared with signals from other systems.
Read term →An ephemeris contains astronomical positions of celestial bodies and enables reproducible calculations of horoscopes and related systems.
Read term →The bodygraph is the central human design graphic with centers, channels, gates, type and inner authority.
Read term →In Human Design, inner authority describes which inner compass is used to make particularly coherent decisions.
Read term →Shadow, Gabe and Siddhi describe a developmental movement from challenge to potential to mature quality.
Read term →The life number is a numerological core number from the date of birth and describes a basic theme of the life path.
Read term →In Ayurveda, doshas are basic principles of movement, transformation and structure. Hermetia uses it non-medically as a reflection signal.
Read term →The chronotype describes at what times of day energy, focus and calm may naturally be stronger or weaker.
Read term →A composite views a relationship as its own third field, derived from two profiles or horoscopes.
Read term →Art. 9 GDPR protects special categories of personal data, which may also include sensitive ideological or spiritual derivations.
Read term →The radix is a person's birth chart and shows calculated planetary positions at the time of birth.
Read term →The Ascendant is the sign of the zodiac that is rising on the eastern horizon at the time of birth.
Read term →Astrological houses assign horoscope factors to different areas of life, such as relationships, calling or withdrawal.
Read term →An aspect describes the angle between two horoscope factors and thus a relationship between two topics.
Read term →The orb is the allowed distance from an exact astrological angle or point.
Read term →A transit describes the current position of a celestial body in relation to the birth chart.
Read term →Progressions are astrological timing techniques that describe a symbolic inner development over time.
Read term →A profection is a classic astrological technique that assigns a house or theme to each year of life.
Read term →The human design type describes a basic logic of energy, action and exchange.
Read term →In Human Design, profile lines are a combination of two lines that symbolize learning style, role and development patterns.
Read term →In Bodygraph, centers are fields that are associated with energy, perception and expression.
Read term →In Human Design, a channel connects two gates and is read as a consistent motif in the bodygraph.
Read term →In Human Design and related systems, a gate is a specific position with its own symbolic quality.
Read term →In Human Design, the Incarnation Cross is an overarching motif made up of four central gate positions.
Read term →Gene Keys sequences describe developmental paths around vocation, relationships and prosperity.
Read term →The Golden Path is a Gene Keys-inspired journey through key personal themes.
Read term →An Enneagram type describes a recurring motif of attention, protective strategy and basic longing.
Read term →A wing is a neighboring type in the Enneagram that can color the main type.
Read term →Tritype describes a combination of three Enneagram patterns from different centers.
Read term →The life path is a numerological core number from the date of birth.
Read term →The name number is created by assigning letters to numbers.
Read term →Pinnacles are numerological phases of life that describe longer periods of development.
Read term →The Tzolkin is a calendar cycle with daily energies, numbers and seals.
Read term →In Tzolkin, a Kin is a combination of number and seal within the 260-day cycle.
Read term →BaZi, also called the Four Pillars, is a system of year, month, day and hour of birth.
Read term →The Five Elements describe symbolic qualities such as wood, fire, earth, metal and water.
Read term →Nakshatras are lunar houses in Vedic astrology.
Read term →Dasha systems describe longer phases of time in Vedic astrology.
Read term →In the I Ching, a hexagram is a figure made up of six lines with symbolic meaning.
Read term →A line is a single position within a hexagram or related symbol system.
Read term →Resonance describes that a statement, a symbol or a pattern connects in a subjectively noticeable way.
Read term →Self-reflection is the conscious consideration of one's own patterns, decisions and reactions.
Read term →Journaling is the written recording of observations, feelings and insights.
Read term →Consent means that an individual gives informed and voluntary consent before sensitive data is processed.
Read term →Data minimization means collecting only the data that is necessary for a clear purpose.
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