Digestive × Circulatory

The hearth and the spark. The Digestive supplies the warmth; the Circulatory brings news from outside it.

Where it works

• Each provides what the other does not naturally manufacture: warmth, novelty.
• Shared comfort with people; both like a full house, for slightly different reasons.
• The Digestive forgives the Circulatory's chaos faster than other types would.

Where it grates

• The Digestive wants to stay; the Circulatory wants to leave.
• Pace. The Digestive's recovery time is longer than the Circulatory will sit through.
• The Circulatory's restlessness can read to the Digestive as a rejection of the home they have made.

She is laying the table; he has just announced they're going out.

At work

Hospitality at scale, agency principals, festival programming, family-business expansion — anywhere warmth has to travel.

In love

Lasts when both accept that *home* and *out* are two seasons of the same year, and neither has to win.

As parents

Children have a vivid childhood: lots of food, lots of guests, lots of trips. Risk: noise.

As friends

The Circulatory drags the Digestive somewhere they would never have gone. The Digestive feeds them when they get back. Both are grateful.

A scene

She has spent the afternoon on a slow lunch she meant to share. He texts at six: 'change of plan, get dressed.' She turns the heat down, smiles, goes to change.