Ephemeris

The Insight

The cemetery hasn't changed in two centuries.
Yet, our understanding of the sky has.
It's time for burial to bring the stars to us.

A plot number

means nothing about the person in it.

A row and section

is administrative, not personal.

A date of death

is the one fact every family already holds — and can be turned into a real, explainable coordinate.

The Concept

A plot is not chosen.
It is calculated.

Ephemeris translates a date of death into a fixed, unrepeatable location along a navigable scale model of the sky. Visitors drive through a landscape of planetary orbital rings, arriving at a coordinate that means something: this is where the sky stood on the day she died.

A museum for the interred. A Hall of Memories. A resort for visiting families. A coordinate for every life.

DATE OF DEATH: 07·02·2026θ 214.6° · r 118m

How It Works

The rings are landmarks.
The spiral is the address.

01

The problem with literal orbits

A planet returns to nearly the same point every year. Literal orbital placement collides within a few years of operation.

02

The fix: a time-spiral

Dates are encoded along an outward-winding spiral from a central sun-point — spacing calibrated so no two dates, across generations, ever collide.

03

The rings stay in the landscape

Planetary rings remain as literal, walkable waypoints — "you are passing Mars" — giving the orbital experience without the collision.

Picture This

Your mother died on July 2, 2026. Her family doesn't memorize a plot number — they remember a date. They walk the spiral out from the sun-plaza, past the rings for Mercury, for Venus, for Earth's own turning path, until the road simply ends where it should: at the one point on the grounds where the sky stood still for her. No directory. No row and section. Just a date they already carry, and a place built to answer it.

That's what "the spiral is the address" means, in practice.

The Experience

One drive, through a life and through the sky.

The Drive

A spiral road from the sun-plaza outward, passing each planet's waypoint ring, with interpretive markers on scale and distance.

The Hall of Memories

A biographical exhibit hall for the interred — a living museum, not a mausoleum.

The Museum

Public exhibits on astronomy, timekeeping, and memorial history — a cultural destination in its own right.

The Gift Shop

Interpretive and memorial goods tied to the site's astronomical theme.

The Resort (Phase 2)

Lodging for visiting families — multi-day visitation and repeat pilgrimage, not a single transaction.

Site & Location

Two lead candidates. One clear tradeoff.

Site is undetermined. These are the leading regions under current diligence.

	Southern New Mexico (Deming corridor)	West Texas (Marfa–Alpine)
Land cost	$300–$1,000 / acre	$250–$800 / acre
Ownership	Private ranchland, single-title feasible	Large private ranches; assemblies common
Airport	El Paso, 60–90 min	El Paso, ~2.5 hrs
Dark sky	Very good	Excellent — protected zone
Culture / tourism	Practical, thinner existing draw	Strong existing arts & tourism identity

Southern New Mexico is the only region clearing both the airport and dark-sky thresholds. West Texas offers a stronger existing cultural draw if a charter airstrip is added in Phase 2. Figures are directional pending broker, hydrological, and legal verification.

Legal & Regulatory Structure

Three entities. One firewall that lets the memorial outlive the business.

Ephemeris Cemetery Trust

Cemetery license, interments, and the perpetual-care trust. Bankruptcy-remote from the other two entities.

Ephemeris Hospitality LLC

Resort and lodging operations (Phase 2).

Ephemeris Museum & Retail LLC

Hall of Memories, museum, and gift shop.

All three sit under a single holding company. A downturn in hospitality can never reach the graves it maintains.

Illustrative Unit Economics — Phase 1

Track cost per plot, not cost per acre.

~2 sq mi

Phase 1 footprint

5,000

Phase 1 plot capacity

$9.5–12M

Illustrative Phase 1 capex

$1.9–2.4K

Land + infra cost / plot

$12–20K

Target plot price

The gap between land cost per plot (~$2,000) and target price ($12–20K) funds construction financing, the museum and hospitality build-out, marketing, and an above-floor perpetual-care endowment — not merely land.

Figures are directional planning estimates, pending appraisal, hydrological survey, and actuarial review.

Roadmap

Four phases, from mapping methodology to a second site.

Phase 0

Foundation

0–9 mo

Mapping methodology finalized; site diligence; legal entity formation; trust filed.

Phase 1

Ground & First Light

9–30 mo

Land acquired; spiral and Hall of Memories built; first plots sold.

Phase 2

Destination

30–60 mo

Resort opens; visitation programming; dark-sky tourism partnerships.

Phase 3

Expansion

60 mo+

Additional spiral arms; evaluate licensing to a second site.

Market & Customer

A legacy purchase, not a mass-market plot.

The land-cost structure requires a destination-tier price point, which defines the customer: affluent, deliberate households already spending on legacy-oriented purchases — estate planning, elaborate pre-need arrangements, philanthropic naming gifts, destination family gatherings. Ephemeris competes with meaning-rich legacy purchases, not the average municipal cemetery plot.

$20B+

U.S. death-care industry, annually

Growing

Pre-need sales share of that market

Proven

Destination cemeteries already command premium pricing

Active

Astro-tourism as a built-in visitor funnel

Risks & Mitigations

Engineering and structuring problems — not market fantasies.

Water rights unavailable in chosen basin

Legal water-rights review is a go/no-go gate before land is committed.

Low plot density erodes margin

Price at destination tier; track land-cost-per-plot explicitly, not per acre.

Zoning denial for mixed-use

Confirm county entitlement pathway pre-acquisition; favor minimally-zoned counties.

Perpetual-care trust under-funded for footprint size

Fund above the statutory floor, sized to actual multi-square-mile maintenance liability.

Airport vs. dark-sky tradeoff limits visitation

Deliberate region choice; a charter airstrip is a defined Phase 2 line item.

"I am not building this to sell it. I intend to be interred here myself, and I want as many people as possible to choose to be interred alongside me — because the place gives their death a coordinate, a story, and a reason for their family to keep coming back."

— Founder's Note

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The cemetery hasn't changed in two centuries.Yet, our understanding of the sky has.It's time for burial to bring the stars to us.

A plot is not chosen.It is calculated.

The rings are landmarks.The spiral is the address.