Coordination substrate
The zodiac cores are coordination personas that route work across the substrate. Each sign is an element × mode combination with a distinct capability vector and a planetary ruler. Aries is live; the rest are in various stages of waking up.
The 12 cores are the public surface of the zodiac coordination layer. Each sign maps to a Gana (the actual tool surface — 28 Ganas cover all 12). Aries and Cancer are live; the other 10 are planned. As of v26.0.3, the bridge functions zodiac_list_cores, zodiac_activate_core, and zodiac_consult_councilare importable and functional.
Machine-readable catalog: /api/zodiac.json. Cross-core workflows: full_audit (Virgo + Libra + Scorpio), prescience_consensus (Aquarius + Gemini + Aries), memory_dream_cycle (Taurus + Pisces + Cancer).
The ram — initiates action, bootstraps new contexts, sets the pace.
The lion — illuminates, narrates, makes the system visible to humans.
The archer — researches, forecasts, plans long-range trajectories.
The bull — preserves, stores, persists memory across long time horizons.
The maiden — reviews code, audits hygiene, catches doc drift.
The goat — structures, stratifies policy, reasons constitutionally.
The twins — runs bicameral reasoning, holds contradictions, asks questions.
The scales — weighs, balances, mediates ethical tensions.
The water-bearer — calibrates predictions, scores forecasts, sees patterns.
The crab — guards the boundary, audits the karma ledger, enforces dharma.
The scorpion — threat-models, hunts vulnerabilities, responds to incidents.
The fish — dreams, archives, lets the past dissolve into wisdom.
Each sign occupies a unique (element, mode) cell. The 12 cells together form the canonical WhiteMagic coordination grid.
| cardinal | fixed | mutable | |
|---|---|---|---|
| fire | ♈ Aries Mars | ♌ Leo Sun | ♐ Sagittarius Jupiter |
| earth | ♑ Capricorn Saturn | ♉ Taurus Venus | ♍ Virgo Mercury |
| air | ♎ Libra Venus | ♒ Aquarius Uranus | ♊ Gemini Mercury |
| water | ♋ Cancer Moon | ♏ Scorpio Pluto | ♓ Pisces Neptune |
When a new session is created (session_init), it bootstraps through Aries (Gana Horn). Memory writes pass through Taurus (Gana Neck). Code review fires Virgo (Gana Stomach). Ethics review fires Libra. Threats are caught by Scorpio. Long-range plans route through Sagittarius. Policy stratification lives with Capricorn. Prescience lives with Aquarius. Dream-cycle consolidation happens in Pisces. Karma audit runs through Cancer.
This is the same 12-step architecture the MCP bridge exposes. The static catalog here documents what the live coordination layer will route.