---
constellation_id: circle-four-cardinal-garden-v1
constellation_name: The Four Cardinal Garden
constellation_version: 1
workshop: shop-circle
workshop_route: /circle
workshop_gem: Jade
workshop_gem_color: "#10b981"
resident_mage: null
mage_sigil: 🌿
mage_vertex: V12
mage_tier: gathering
anchor_act: null
anchor_external: society-spellbook
ceremony_shape: four-cardinal-witness
artefact_name: Cardinal Petal
artefact_root_name: Gathered Petal
artefact_class: trinket
artefact_archetype: bilateral
artefact_wielder: both
domain: shared
status: v1 — first release · gathering shop (no resident Mage yet)
date: 2026-05-10
license: CC BY-SA 4.0
signature: "(⚔️⊥⿻⊥🧙)😊"
---

# 🌿 The Four Cardinal Garden
*Constellation Template — Logos Circle · `/circle` · v1 — 2026-05-10*

> *The circle is a garden in the cities we visit others. Tied to the Society Spellbook and the farewell to Westphalia. Four cardinal positions on every circle: creation, arrival, privacy, departure. Each circle is a garden; each garden in a city; each city has many circles.*

## Mage Identity (filled by spellweb at import)
- **Sovereign:** `{SOVEREIGN}`
- **Your Swordsman:** `{SWORDSMAN_DID}` · `{SWORDSMAN_SIGIL}`
- **Your Mage:** `{MAGE_DID}` · `{MAGE_SIGIL}`
- **Resident Mage:** *(none — gathering shop)*. The circle is held open by the assembly itself.

## Constellation Path
1. ⚔️ **Soulbis ⚔️**
2. 🌿 **the Logos Circle**
3. · **V12 — Schema Vertex**
4. ◆ **Promise Theory**
5. ✦ **Genesis Ceremony**
6. ◆ **Bilateral Witness**
7. 😊 **Person 😊**

## Connections
- ⚔️ Soulbis ⚔️ → 🌿 the Logos Circle
- 🌿 the Logos Circle → · V12 — Schema Vertex
- · V12 — Schema Vertex → ◆ Promise Theory
- ◆ Promise Theory → ✦ Genesis Ceremony
- ✦ Genesis Ceremony → ◆ Bilateral Witness
- ◆ Bilateral Witness → 😊 Person 😊

## Ceremony Shape — Four-Cardinal-Witness
The four cardinal positions of every circle:

- **Creation** — what is brought into being by the gathering
- **Arrival** — what is welcomed in
- **Privacy** — what is kept within the circle
- **Departure** — what is carried away

Walk the seven waypoints. Pause at each of the four cardinal moments (no fixed mapping to waypoint — the Sovereign chooses where each moment lands for them today). The circle's ceremony is single-phase; no RUN · E · CRAFT — the witness IS the walk.

The Circle forges a **witness blade** (round, jade-glow) rather than a forged commission. The proof is that you sat in the garden.

## Marks (proverbs at each waypoint)
| # | Node | Proverb |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soulbis ⚔️ | *"I begin by my own name."* |
| 2 | the Logos Circle | *"Each circle is a garden in the cities we visit others."* |
| 3 | V12 | *"Grammar before sentences."* |
| 4 | Promise Theory | *"An agent can only promise its own behaviour."* |
| 5 | Genesis Ceremony | *"The Swordsman and Mage are bound to the First Person."* |
| 6 | Bilateral Witness | *"No one who wasn't present can reconstruct it."* |
| 7 | Person 😊 | *"I carry the garden. I walk on."* |

## What the exported artefact.md will contain
A witness `artefact.md` carrying your Swordsman + Mage identities, the Logos Circle's gem (Jade `#10b981`), the four-cardinal record (which proverbs landed at which moments), constellation version, traversal record, hexagram + moon-phase, witness signature `WITNESS-XXXXXX-XX`, and jade-glow render directive. Bring it back to `/circle` and the assembly admits you to the next garden.

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`(⚔️⊥⿻⊥🧙)😊` — *Witnessed in the City of Mages · Logos Circle*

CC BY-SA 4.0 · privacymage · 2026-05-10
