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Growth, Worth & Guilt are not weights to carry or currencies to spend.
They are mirrors that reflect where one stands in the garden of becoming.
Growth shows what has unfolded, worth reflects recognition, and guilt signals what remains unresolved.


  • Growth: reflection of change across time and cycles.
  • Worth: mirror of recognition, both self and shared.
  • Guilt: shadowed mirror, showing misalignment or fracture.
  • Garden of mirrors: together, they form a reflective ecology of becoming.

Test: If these forces are treated as possession or debt, the mirrors are obscured.


  • Reflect → Recognise → Re-align

    1. Reflect: mirrors show state of growth, worth, or guilt.
    2. Recognise: awareness dawns through self or other.
    3. Re-align: choice and care transform reflection into growth.
  • Tension curve: mirrors intensify when avoided, soften when faced.

  • Directionality: from hidden shadow → recognition → renewed unfolding.


  • Daily mirror: a small act feels growth, or guilt, in the moment.
  • Recognition glance: worth is felt when acknowledged by another.
  • Confession spark: guilt spoken aloud transforms into path for repair.

  • Life arc: growth recognised only in long reflection.
  • Communal mirrors: worth and guilt emerge in shared stories and rituals.
  • Cultural cycles: societies mirror their worth and failings across generations.

  • Commodification: reducing growth, worth, or guilt to tally or debt.
  • Denial: refusing the mirror, leaving distortions unaddressed.
  • Judgment fixation: clinging to guilt without seeking repair.

Rule: Mirrors reveal — they do not bind.


  • Mirror walk: pause to ask what each mirror is reflecting today.
  • Worth naming: acknowledge contributions — yours and others’.
  • Guilt release: transform recognition of harm into repair.
  • Garden tending: treat reflections as growth ecology, not ledgers.

Mapping to Core Glyphs:

Mirror — growth, worth, and guilt appear as reflective surfaces of the self.
Garden — together they form an ecology of development and renewal.