Twenty-six seats, twenty-six pigments
Circle of Houses
The alphabet stands in a wheel, A at the top. Around it sits a color wheel — each letter a mineral, amber at dawn walking the spectrum back to ochre. A Letter Path is three letters. Its color is those three pigments in one pot: house half, manner three-tenths, field two-tenths.
Mix a color
Choose which seat you are setting — house, manner, or field — then tap a letter. The well in the middle is the mix. That mix is the Letter Path’s color.
Setting the house. Tap a letter on the wheel.
The pot
Indigo with indigo and olive
House 50 · manner 30 · field 20. Mixed in OKLab, the way pigments combine — not the way screens add light.
The Double Healer of the Hearth
NNB · Indigo with indigo and olive
You noticed your own wound and made a job of tending.
Open this mixNurture
House of the Healer
You noticed your own wound and made a job of tending.
Old tables call this Jung's wounded healer · the medicine path — Water · Chiron · the garden rows. A likeness, not a creed. On the wheel this house sits Indigo.
You can only help with what you are willing to go through yourself. Healing is not fixing people so they stop bothering the room. It is restoring what is already trying to live. A healer who will not be healed becomes a subtle tyrant of care.
The mineral scale
Every letter keeps one pigment. Vowels sit a little lighter. Tap any chip to set the house and keep mixing.
Allies
These three complete this house’s work.
Holding and healing are one job. Both keep people able to continue — including the one who tends.
What is tended grows. The grove and the garden are the same work from two sides.
Both remember what absence costs, so they know how to make a place.
Enemies
These three work against it — a blind spot, not a villain.
The drive to become can starve what already needs feeding. The duty to tend can postpone the life that is trying to start.
Looking far can neglect the person already hungry. Feeding can treat the future as a luxury.
The Healer will not torch what still lives. The Alchemist will not keep a corpse at the table and call it care.