The sixteen types
All sixteen types a reading can name, each with its four sides and one everyday picture. Begin the reading
- The Flag PlanterChallenger Seen Self ArriveThink of a swimmer who takes on a new sea crossing each summer, with a judge watching.
- The PerennialChallenger Seen Self ProcessThink of a chess player who has played for the club title every season for thirty years.
- The Epoch MakerChallenger Seen World ArriveThink of a doctor who risks ten years on one new treatment and presents it in public.
- The TorchbearerChallenger Seen World ProcessThink of a nurse who has taken a campaign for clean water to new towns for twenty years.
- The Hidden HandChallenger Self-sufficient Self ArriveThink of a woman who trains for a year, runs her first marathon, and tells no one.
- The Lone AscentChallenger Self-sufficient Self ProcessThink of someone who studies harder math each year for twenty-five years and shows no one.
- The UnsungChallenger Self-sufficient World ArriveThink of an electrician who fixes a flooded clinic no one would enter, and asks no thanks.
- The OutriderChallenger Self-sufficient World ProcessThink of a diver who has mapped new caves for decades and lets others publish the maps.
- The LaureateStabilizer Seen Self ArriveThink of a judo student who earned every belt from white to black in front of the judges.
- The EminenceStabilizer Seen Self ProcessThink of a tailor whose name a whole city has trusted for forty years.
- The ArchitectStabilizer Seen World ArriveThink of a clerk who spent two years fixing a filing system that every office now uses.
- The LanternStabilizer Seen World ProcessThink of a postman who has served one village for twenty years and is known at every door.
- The HavenStabilizer Self-sufficient Self ArriveThink of a welder who paid off his home in eighteen years, told no one, and cut his hours.
- The GardenerStabilizer Self-sufficient Self ProcessThink of a dentist who has played the cello alone at home each morning for fifteen years.
- The Good NeighborStabilizer Self-sufficient World ArriveThink of a man who has mended his neighbors' bikes for ten years and never mentions it.
- The KeeperStabilizer Self-sufficient World ProcessThink of someone who has kept a mountain path safe for thirty years, unseen by walkers.