A dictionary for the uninitiated

The Key

CC33 keeps Letterology’s weird metaphors. It also has to speak to people who did not arrive already fluent. This page is the audit: every coined term on the site, said twice — once in the house tongue, once in plain speech.

In other words

We read the letters of a username. The first letter names a role. The two letters that show up most after that describe how you tend to work, and what you tend to work on. Some roles help this one finish. Some roles push back so it does not fool itself. The name is the material. Nothing here predicts the future.

House

The first letter of the username names a role. L sits the Lover. That is who the reading starts as.

Manner

The letter that weighs most after that is how you work. Repeats count. First and last letters count extra.

Field

The next letter by weight is where the work happens — the kind of place, not a job title.

Letter Path

Three letters together: the role, how you work, and where. That path has a name and a mixed color.

Allies and enemies

Each house has three complements and three counterweights. An enemy is a blind spot, not a villain.

Bond

Two usernames, compared. Houses, how they work, shared letters, and missing allies the other already carries. The certificate is the postcard.

The Count

Numbers must sit as letters. A count has a court of occupants and places, a seat, the walks that made it, and Letter Paths. Zero is the Fool. We do not fold.

Open the Count

The year

How a day is read

The year is split into twenty-six two-week seats, one per letter, starting 21 March. Today's date names a role. The current two-week seat says how the season is working. The weekday says what today's work is about. The calendar year and the month only color the background — they do not rename the day.

Open the almanac

Two handles

How a bond is read

Type two usernames. We compare the role each first letter names, then how each tends to work, then where. Allies complete a job. Enemies keep it honest. Shared letters are common ground. If one name already carries an ally the other is missing, that is a gift. The number is a fit, not a forecast.

Compare two handles

34 terms that need a translation

The opaque ones

  • Handle

    The handle you live under. The handle is the destiny.

    Your username. That string of letters is the only material this reading uses.

    home · name form · share cards

  • House

    The letters you chose sit a house — Seeker, Caregiver, Rebel, Hermit.

    The role a letter names. A username sits a house by its first letter.

    home · reading · houses · circle · atlas · year

  • Sit

    The first letter sits the house. Today sits the House of the Warrior.

    Occupies, or names. A letter sits a house the way a date sits a weekday — it is the seat, not a spell.

    home · reading · year · generated copy

  • Weight

    The two letters that weigh most after that set how you work and where you work.

    How much a letter counts. Repeats count more. The first letter of a name, and other first and last letters, count extra.

    home · reading · houses

  • Manner

    The next two letters by weight set the manner and the field.

    How you work — the letter that weighs most after the first.

    reading · houses · year

  • Field

    The field is where you work. The weekday is the field.

    Where the work happens — the next letter by weight, or, on a day, what the weekday is about.

    reading · houses · year

  • Triad

    Three letters. First is the house; the next two are manner and field.

    A three-letter code: role, how, where. ALE means Seeker, working by luminosity, on the path of expansion.

    houses · letter path card

  • Letter Path

    Your Letter Path is three letters: house, manner, field.

    The three-letter figure a username sits. First letter is the role; the next two are how and where you work.

    reading · houses · circle · atlas

  • CC33

    A CC33 house.

    The club. Letterology is the reading; CC33 is whose house it is.

    home · header · footer · share cards

  • Allies

    Allies complete the job.

    Three other houses that help this one finish. They are complements, not friends in the ordinary sense.

    home · reading · circle · houses · year · atlas

  • Enemies

    Enemies keep it honest. An enemy is not a villain.

    Three houses that show this one's blind spot. They push back so the role cannot lie to itself.

    home · reading · circle · houses · year · atlas

  • Destiny

    The handle is the destiny. This is a portrait, not a prediction.

    The name is the material, not a forecast. Nothing here tells the future.

    home · footer · reading

  • Letterological Horoscope

    Letterological Horoscope

    A reading of this username. Same shape as a horoscope; the sky is the alphabet.

    reading

  • Wheel

    The alphabet stands in a wheel, A at the top. Twenty-six seats on one wheel.

    The twenty-six houses arranged in a ring, A at the top, so each role has neighbors, allies, and opposites.

    reading · circle · home · year

  • Vowels · inner

    Vowels lean inward. Consonants lean outward.

    Vowels describe the private life. Consonants describe how you show up.

    atlas · reading

  • Tradition

    Pearson Seeker · Campbell's departure

    Old names for the same figure, from psychology and myth. Color, not a rule.

    houses · atlas · letter path card

  • Correspondence

    Air · East · first hour

    Traditional atmosphere — element, direction, image. Not an instruction.

    houses · atlas · letter path card

  • Realm

    The realm is the Threshold. Path of the Hearth, the Spark, the Well.

    The kind of place this work happens in. A nickname for the field, not a map.

    letter path card · houses

  • Fortnight

    For fourteen days the sun sits in the House of the Orphan.

    The current two-week seat on the year-wheel. There are twenty-six of them, one per letter.

    home · year · reading

  • Hinge

    The leftover day or two are the Fool's hinge.

    The leftover day or two between one year-walk and the next, around mid-March. No numbered house to sit.

    home · year · reading

  • Climate

    Year and month are climate around this day. They do not sit the house.

    Background color from the calendar year and the month. Mood, not today's job.

    home · year · reading

  • Court

    Day court. Fortnight court. Year and month keep their courts.

    A letter's usual helpers and pushbacks — its three allies and three enemies.

    year · home

  • Wear

    The 13th wears that house.

    The date's number names a letter (1 is A, 13 is M). That letter is today's house.

    year

  • Grain

    The day's grain is not yours. Your manner rubs the fortnight's grain.

    The way a house tends to work — its texture. Friction means today's texture is not yours.

    reading · year

  • Crossing

    A crossing in the House of the Warrior.

    Today has a relationship to your house, but it is not a simple match.

    reading

  • Exile

    Exile weather — House of the Magician.

    Today is strongly against your grain. Do the day's work; do not make it your identity.

    reading

  • Pigment

    Amber sits the Seeker. The wheel walks the spectrum back to ochre.

    The color of a letter. A sits dawn gold; the rest walk the color wheel in order. Each pigment has a mineral name.

    circle · houses · reading

  • Mix

    Cobalt with vermilion and jade.

    A Letter Path’s color. Three letter-pigments combined: the house is half the pot, manner three-tenths, field two-tenths.

    circle · houses · reading

  • Bond

    Two handles sit a bond.

    A reading of two usernames together — how their roles, methods, and letters meet.

    bond · home · reading

  • Affinity

    Affinity 78.

    A 0–100 fit of the two names: houses, how they work, shared letters, and missing allies the other already carries.

    bond · certificate

  • The Count

    We ask a number to sit a house.

    Numbers must sit as letters. A count has a court, a seat, the walks that made it, and Letter Paths from spelling and from places.

    count · key · home

  • Seat

    2026 sits X — Trickster.

    The one house a whole number occupies, the same rule as a date or year. 1 is A. 13 is M. 26 is Z. 27 is A again.

    count · year

  • Spelling

    2026 spells B F B F.

    Each digit becomes a letter. 1 is A through 9 is I. 0 is F, the Fool. That string is then read like a username.

    count

  • Zero

    Zero is the Fool.

    There is no 0th of the month. 0 sits F, Tarot’s unnumbered card. 6 also sits F, as the sixth house. Same figure, two doors.

    count · key

Already closer to English

The rest of the tongue

  • Consonants · outer

    The consonants speak of luminosity in the outer life.

    How the name acts in public — work, rooms, the face other people get.

  • Station of the Seeker

    The year-walk begins at the Station of the Seeker on 21 March.

    March 21, where the year starts over at A. Same idea as a solstice or new year.

  • The sun

    The sun is in the House of the Orphan. The sun walks the circle.

    A way of saying which two-week seat the calendar is in. Not astronomy.

  • Visiting

    M is visiting — it is not in the name.

    Today's letter does not appear in the username. Meet it as a guest, not a verdict.

  • Homecoming

    Homecoming in the House of the Seeker.

    Today matches your house. You are on home ground.

  • Kinship

    Kinship: Lover with Warrior.

    Today is an ally of your house. The day helps the work you already do.

  • Friction

    Friction: Lover meets Hermit.

    Today pushes against your house. Useful, if you do not pretend it is easy.

  • Ordinary day

    An ordinary day in the House of the Warrior.

    No special bond between your house and today's house. Still a real day.

  • Kindred

    Same manner and field, sitting in an allied house.

    The same how and where, lived by a role that helps yours.

  • Atlas

    The twenty-six fields.

    A page for every letter: its meaning, its house, its inner and outer face.

  • Almanac

    The year on the wheel.

    The calendar: which house holds this fortnight, this month, this year, and this date.

  • Portrait

    This is a portrait, not a prediction.

    A likeness made from the letters you already carry. It describes; it does not forecast.

  • Certificate of Bond

    Certified by CC33.

    A shareable card of the pair: both names, the bond’s title, and the affinity. Made to post.