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Concept 9 · celestial mechanics

The Orbit Signature

What holds you, and what you circle. Your traits are the central mass that sets the gravity, your bonds decide whether your orbit is calm and close or eccentric and escaping, and your values are the bodies you keep returning to. Play with it, then read how it works.

Build a person

Pick a sample or move the dials. BIS/BAS is the charge (gold approach, teal threat).

The idea

You orbit what holds you

In celestial mechanics, a small body does not move at random, it falls into orbit around whatever exerts the most gravity. The shape of that orbit is set by two things together: how much mass sits at the centre, and how much energy the orbiting body carries. The same logic maps onto a person. A six-fold core of traits is the central mass that bends everything around it, and the things you value most are the bodies you circle, the points you keep returning to no matter how far you drift.

Honest from the start. This is a visual metaphor for how the frameworks layer, not a claim that personality is governed by actual gravity. The scores are validated; the way they are combined is designed and calibrated, not yet validated. A psychologist signs off before any public personality claim.

How each outcome is drawn

Five frameworks, one orbital system

HEXACO
The central mass, a six-fold core. Each of the six factors pushes the silhouette out along its own direction, so the body at the centre, the thing all your gravity comes from, is the maths of your traits.
BIS / BAS
The charge colour and orbital energy. Gold when approach (BAS) leads, teal when threat (BIS) leads. Approach gives a warmer, more energetic system, threat a cooler, more cautious one.
Attachment
The binding. Secure is a stable, near-circular orbit that holds. Anxiety stretches it into an eccentric ellipse. Avoidance lets the orbit open up into an escaping trajectory that does not close.
Schwartz values
The bodies you orbit, the masses you keep circling, placed at their position on the value circle.
SDT needs
The stability of the system. Met needs keep the orbits clear, bright and steady; frustrated needs leave the lines faint and the system unsettled.
How it is built

From scores to a system

  1. The six HEXACO scores shape the silhouette of the central mass at the heart of the system.
  2. Net drive (BAS minus BIS) sets the charge colour and the warmth of the whole field.
  3. Attachment sets the binding: a stable circle, an eccentric ellipse, or an open escaping arc.
  4. The strongest values become the bodies you orbit; the three needs set the stability of the orbital lines.
  5. Same scores always trace the same system, so the signature is deterministic.
Honesty and limits

What this is, and is not

A metaphor for how the layers combine, not biology and not a clinical tool. Results are tendencies, not limits. The exact link strengths are calibrated from the literature and need a validation pilot and a psychologist's sign-off before any public claim. The shareable image should be drawn from bands, not exact scores.