The sixteen types
All sixteen types a reading can name, each with its four sides and one everyday picture. Begin the reading
- The Flag Planter Challenger Seen Self Arrive Think of a swimmer who takes on a new sea crossing each summer, with a judge watching.
- The Contender Challenger Seen Self Process Think of a chess player who has played for the club title every season for thirty years.
- The Moonshot Challenger Seen World Arrive Think of a doctor who risks ten years on one new treatment and presents it in public.
- The Torchbearer Challenger Seen World Process Think of a nurse who has taken a campaign for clean water to new towns for twenty years.
- The Archer Challenger Self-sufficient Self Arrive Think of a woman who trains for a year, runs her first marathon, and keeps it to herself.
- The Alpinist Challenger Self-sufficient Self Process Think of someone who studies harder math each year for twenty-five years, in private.
- The Bridgebuilder Challenger Self-sufficient World Arrive Think of an electrician who takes on a flooded clinic others turned down, then slips away.
- The Cartographer Challenger Self-sufficient World Process Think of a diver who has mapped new caves for decades and lets others publish the maps.
- The Laureate Stabilizer Seen Self Arrive Think of a judo student who earned every belt from white to black in front of the judges.
- The Crest Stabilizer Seen Self Process Think of a tailor whose name a whole city has trusted for forty years.
- The Engineer Stabilizer Seen World Arrive Think of a clerk who spent two years fixing a filing system that every office now uses.
- The Lighthouse Stabilizer Seen World Process Think of a postman who has served one village for twenty years and is known at every door.
- The Anchor Stabilizer Self-sufficient Self Arrive Think of a welder who paid off his home in eighteen years, kept quiet, and cut his hours.
- The Gardener Stabilizer Self-sufficient Self Process Think of a dentist who has played the cello alone at home each morning for fifteen years.
- The Mender Stabilizer Self-sufficient World Arrive Think of a man who has mended his neighbors' bikes for ten years and keeps quiet about it.
- The Keeper Stabilizer Self-sufficient World Process Think of someone who has kept a mountain path safe for thirty years, out of sight.