Phase 0 · Visual
Four Rings, One Board
A chessboard's concentric square rings count out 4 · 12 · 20 · 28 = 64 exactly — the hidden arithmetic of your design. Every anchor stacks up the center e-file at the top of the board, and all four rings turn clockwise (↻):
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Elements — center 4
Air at e5, clockwise — Fire, Earth, Water. The ground of everything.
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Zodiac — ring of 12
Aries at e6, clockwise through the wheel of signs / ages.
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Maya day-signs — ring of 20
Imix at e7, clockwise — shown as bar-and-dot numerals.
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Moon — ring of 28
New moon at e8, clockwise — waxing to full at d1 (bottom-center), waning back.
Verify the anchors: hover e5 (Air), e6 (Aries), e7 (Imix), e8 (New Moon) — a straight column up the middle. Taurus follows Aries at f6. New moon (e8) and full moon (d1) sit on opposite sides of the board.
What comes next
On top of this substrate goes the game: an 8×8 matrix of Emblem-vaulted crypto (BTC, Base, ETH, Polygon, Hedera, Solana, BSC + the Emblem token), market-cap ordered, with BTC/ETH vs ETH/BTC trend coloring.
Phase 1 overlays live prices. For now — feel the board. Tune the art, the flavor, the placement. Everything downstream gets easier once this feels right.