The Seven Moves
The breath of a Cell: Form a Cell · Weave Spirit, Hearts, and Minds · Choose a Quest · Do the Work · Celebrate, Learn, and Improve · Share the Stories · Pass The Flame.
The Seven Moves are the full gameplay loop — one inhale and exhale of a body, run daily, weekly, seasonally, and across lifetimes. They are not phases of a project that end; they are a cycle that deepens with practice, and a Cell that has run them for a season runs them better the next.
The sequence is not arbitrary, and that is what makes the seven worth holding beside The Five Moves. Weaving spirit, hearts, and minds sits second because a Circle that has not become one will not choose its Quest well. Celebrating, learning, and improving sits before the telling because what has been refined is what is worth telling. Passing the Flame comes last because the spread depends on something having actually been done, learned, and stored as Story.
How they are played. The first three moves make a body and give it work. Do the Work is where Commitment and The Record live, and where Networks of Commitments and Tightly Coupled Learning and Action enter the week. The last three return the season: Celebration and Retrospective at the turning, the story that travels, and the two or three people carried in within a week. A Cell that stops at move six dies with its founders; the seventh is never optional.
Also called: The Moves · the gameplay loop Stands on: The Great Game of LIØNSBERG · Cell · The Core Pattern Opens onto: The Five Moves · Form a Cell · Weave Spirit, Hearts, and Minds · Choose a Quest · Do the Work · Celebrate, Learn, and Improve · Share the Stories · Pass The Flame · The Turn In play: table · Home Sources: The Seven Moves, a Card in LIØNSBERG, Earth, and the Cosmos (status: captured, fold target IV) · The DNA of Heaven, Part V, "the seven moves, the breath of a Cell" (Fable synthesis, second draft) · lionsberg.wiki: The Seven Moves Open: Three numberings are live in the field: seven here, five in the Little Book and the module lexicon, and seven with different wording again in the seed. The field treats five as the compressed form of the same loop, but no page yet says so canonically. · The card is marked captured, not yet folded into the Playbook it names as its home.