Sacred Geometry Systems

Sacred Geometry Systems is a dark and light Obsidian theme for complex knowledge maps, Canvas systems, and agent ecosystems. It turns the language of sacred geometry into a practical interface grammar: intersections, origins, ecosystems, architecture, progression, and feedback loops.

This repo contains the theme, a maintainable brand book, Canvas starter material, a map-node template, and semantic Canvas snippets.

What This Theme Solves

Large Obsidian vaults and Canvas maps can become visually flat: everything has the same weight, flow is hard to trace, and the center of a system disappears. Sacred Geometry Systems gives complex work a darker, luminous structure with clear focus states, readable cards, meaningful edge colors, and repeatable map roles.

The focus is functional, not mystical. Geometry is used as a way to reveal hidden structure and help humans move between overview and detail.

About the Creator

Sacred Geometry Systems is created by Stanislav Ivanov as part of the Livastar Observer ecosystem. The theme is designed for people who use Obsidian to map systems, projects, agent workflows, decisions, and knowledge structures with more visual clarity.

Useful links:

• Tripmindful - a related mindful preparation project.
• Livastar Observer - the wider research and product studio behind this work.
• LinkedIn - connect with Stanislav Ivanov.
• Buy Me a Coffee - support ongoing theme, template, and systems-mapping work.

Brand System

The source of truth lives in BRAND_BOOK.md. It defines:

• Core intention and tone.
• Sacred geometry language.
• Visual palette and typography.
• Obsidian Canvas usage.
• Live-map animation principles.
• Template library.
• The future SacraMap plugin concept.

Features

• Dual dark/light palettes with obsidian or ivory surfaces, gold structure, copper boundaries, deep indigo panels, and signal-cyan flow.
• Canvas-first styling for luminous cards, focused nodes, active links, and semantic map roles.
• Geometry helpers for rings, flower-of-life fields, spirals, circles, live-flow cues, and framed system panels.
• Graph and callout styling aligned with the same semantic colors.
• Accessible motion behavior through prefers-reduced-motion.
• Starter artifacts under canvas/, templates/, and snippets/.

Installation

1. Copy this repository folder into your vault's .obsidian/themes/ directory.
2. Restart Obsidian.
3. Open Settings > Appearance and select Sacred Geometry Systems.
4. Optional: copy the starter Canvas and template into a working vault and enable snippets/SG Canvas Cards.css under Settings > Appearance > CSS snippets.

Working With Canvas

Use the starter Canvas as a model for systems maps:

• Mission / north star.
• Core system.
• Agents.
• Resources.
• Interactions.
• Knowledge clusters.
• Decisions and outcomes.
• Flow tracing and decision paths.

Use templates/map-node.md for reusable note-backed nodes. Use snippet classes such as .node-agent, .node-resource, .node-decision, .node-system, and .node-knowledge to give cards semantic styling.

Customization

The main brand tokens live in styles/tokens.css. Stable public tokens include:

:root {
  --sg-obsidian: #03080d;
  --sg-ivory: #f5ead6;
  --sg-gold: #d8a84f;
  --sg-copper: #b87345;
  --sg-deep-indigo: #12122d;
  --sg-signal-cyan: #16c7e8;
}

Backward-compatible aliases from the original DS-Light theme remain available so older snippets keep rendering.

Accessibility

The theme keeps body text high contrast on dark and light surfaces, uses state color with borders instead of color alone where practical, and disables decorative motion when the user requests reduced motion.

Compatibility

• Theme version: 0.3.0
• Minimum Obsidian version: 1.5.0
• Modes: dark and light
• Obsidian Publish: not currently advertised

Roadmap

• Expand the Canvas template library with separate Agent Ecosystem, Project Constellation, Decision Tree, Knowledge Atlas, Flow Network, and Resource Map examples.
• Add a demo vault that shows the full brand language in real notes.
• Explore the SacraMap concept as a separate plugin project. SacraMap is documented here as a product direction, not implemented in this theme repo.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License; see LICENSE for details.