diff --git a/src/components/actor-app.tsx b/src/components/actor-app.tsx
index be2f372..b4b7670 100644
--- a/src/components/actor-app.tsx
+++ b/src/components/actor-app.tsx
@@ -121,6 +121,8 @@ export function ActorApp() {
         } as CSSProperties
       }
     >
+      <ProfileMasthead />
+
       <MasonryGrid>
         {profile ? (
           <BlueskyProfile
@@ -169,7 +171,6 @@ function Home() {
   const [query, setQuery] = useState("");
   const { actors, isSearching } = useActorSearch(query);
   const { isOpen, openPanel, searchAreaRef } = useSearchPanel();
-  const readingLabel = getSigilReadingLabel(query, actors);
 
   function visitPresence(event: FormEvent<HTMLFormElement>) {
     event.preventDefault();
@@ -182,19 +183,16 @@ function Home() {
 
   return (
     <main className="home-page min-h-screen p-4 sm:p-8">
-      <div className="home-content mx-auto max-w-2xl">
-        <p className="home-index-label">haunt.at // an atmosphere compendium</p>
-
+      <div className="mx-auto max-w-2xl">
         <section className="home-invocation" aria-labelledby="home-title">
-          <div className="home-invocation-sigil">
-            <HauntSigil seed={query.trim() || "haunt.at"} />
-            <p>{readingLabel}</p>
-          </div>
-
           <h1 id="home-title" className="sr-only">
             Haunt compendium
           </h1>
 
+          <div className="home-invocation-sigil">
+            <HauntSigil seed={query.trim() || "haunt.at"} />
+          </div>
+
           <div
             ref={searchAreaRef}
             className="home-search-area"
@@ -240,6 +238,14 @@ function Home() {
   );
 }
 
+function ProfileMasthead() {
+  return (
+    <a className="profile-home-link mx-auto block max-w-6xl" href="/">
+      haunt.at
+    </a>
+  );
+}
+
 function useSearchPanel() {
   const searchAreaRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null);
   const [isOpen, setIsOpen] = useState(false);
@@ -261,21 +267,6 @@ function useSearchPanel() {
   return { isOpen, openPanel: () => setIsOpen(true), searchAreaRef };
 }
 
-function getSigilReadingLabel(
-  query: string,
-  actors: BlueskyActorSearchResult[],
-): string {
-  const identifier = query.trim().replace(/^@/, "");
-  const normalizedIdentifier = identifier.toLowerCase();
-  const matchingActor = actors.find(
-    (actor) =>
-      actor.handle.toLowerCase() === normalizedIdentifier ||
-      actor.did.toLowerCase() === normalizedIdentifier,
-  );
-
-  return matchingActor ? `reading: ${matchingActor.handle}` : "unresolved";
-}
-
 type HauntSigilProps = {
   seed: string;
 };
diff --git a/src/styles/globals.css b/src/styles/globals.css
index 5035c84..89a8534 100644
--- a/src/styles/globals.css
+++ b/src/styles/globals.css
@@ -25,6 +25,25 @@ body {
   background-size: 108% 108%;
 }
 
+.profile-home-link,
+.state-masthead {
+  color: color-mix(in srgb, currentColor 50%, transparent);
+  font-size: 0.75rem;
+  letter-spacing: 0.12em;
+  margin-bottom: 1.5rem;
+  text-transform: uppercase;
+}
+
+.profile-home-link:hover,
+.profile-home-link:focus-visible {
+  color: var(--profile-accent);
+}
+
+.profile-home-link:focus-visible {
+  outline: 2px solid var(--profile-accent);
+  outline-offset: 3px;
+}
+
 .home-page,
 .state-page {
   background-color: var(--home-background);
@@ -34,19 +53,10 @@ body {
   color: var(--home-text);
 }
 
-.home-content,
 .state-content {
   padding-top: clamp(1.5rem, 4vw, 3rem);
 }
 
-.home-index-label,
-.state-masthead {
-  color: color-mix(in srgb, currentColor 50%, transparent);
-  font-size: 0.75rem;
-  letter-spacing: 0.12em;
-  text-transform: uppercase;
-}
-
 .state-masthead:focus-visible,
 .state-action:focus-visible {
   outline: 2px solid var(--home-highlight);
@@ -71,21 +81,12 @@ body {
   width: var(--home-sigil-size);
 }
 
-.home-invocation-sigil p,
 .state-label {
   color: color-mix(in srgb, currentColor 48%, transparent);
   font-size: 0.6875rem;
   letter-spacing: 0.08em;
-  text-transform: uppercase;
-}
-
-.state-label {
   margin-top: 0.875rem;
-}
-
-.home-invocation-sigil p {
-  line-height: 1.3;
-  white-space: nowrap;
+  text-transform: uppercase;
 }
 
 .state-reading h1 {
@@ -126,7 +127,7 @@ body {
 
 .home-invocation-sigil {
   display: grid;
-  gap: 0.35rem;
+  gap: 0.5rem;
   justify-items: center;
 }
 
@@ -406,6 +407,7 @@ body {
   }
 }
 
+
 @keyframes atmosphere-drift {
   to {
     background-position: 100% 100%;