# How to Use

## Reference Workflow

Search by title, alias, Class, Domain, Mode, or Evidence State. Open the Tile and read in this order: Essence; Origin; Claim and Evidence Layers; Sources; Meanings; then Relationships. This prevents a compelling symbolic interpretation from being mistaken for a verified literal claim. When a source is class-level context rather than concept-specific evidence, the research note says so explicitly.

For comparison, choose two Tiles and inspect the exact relationship verb. Ask: Is this a documented influence, a fictionalization, a contrast, a subtype, a symbolic echo, or an editorial synthesis? Open the cited source when a factual decision depends on the answer. Similarity alone is never evidence of historical transmission.

## Reflective Reading Workflow

1. Ask a decision-bearing question in which you retain agency: “What should I examine before choosing?” is better than “What will happen?”
2. Choose a spread and record the seed. Reusing the seed reproduces the draw.
3. For each position, read the Tile’s Signal, Gift, Shadow, and position prompt.
4. If a Tile is contested, health-related, conspiratorial, identity-laden, or experiential, read its evidence layer and safety boundary aloud before interpreting it.
5. Name at least one alternative lens. A symbolic reading can remain useful without certifying a literal cause.
6. Finish with the integration practice and one action that improves information, care, consent, or agency.

Example: if **Wormhole** appears at a Threshold, the reading may ask whether the relationship between two endpoints can be redesigned. It does not predict available spacetime travel. The literal layer and sources keep the engineering claim separate from the structural metaphor.

## Story and Game Workflow

Choose a seed Tile, then follow graph neighbors whose edge verbs serve the desired structure: a World can provide a setting; a Faction can govern or oppose; a Technology can enable; an Event can precipitate; a State can complicate a witness. A generator may take one distant surprise only when it exposes the bridge used to reach it. Pin useful choices, reroll the remainder, and retain the structured recipe with the prose output.

Games use declarative operations such as draw, connect, cite-source, challenge-claim, gain, spend, transform, lock, and unlock. The rules do not execute arbitrary code. Clarity, Trust, Agency, Stability, Secrecy, and Evidence Debt make inquiry and consequence playable without rewarding mere certainty.

## Safety Stop Conditions

Stop or reframe when a reading is being used to diagnose, replace care, identify a hidden persecutor, assign collective guilt, prove special ancestry, justify surveillance, or treat coincidence as instruction. Ground in observable facts, consult qualified support where needed, and preserve the user’s ability to decline the reading. See [Epistemic and Safety Policy](../research/EPISTEMIC-AND-SAFETY.md).
