Esoteric · Technomancy
Technomancy
A practical workshop for magic made with machines: sigils, servitors and timed procedures you can build, feed and close.
Everything runs on the Grimoire's planets, elements and hours — and everything can be copied, changed and closed.
First time here? The words
Aspect
A planet, element, tarot card, moon phase or weekday from the Grimoire. The tools use it as an input.
Sigil
A symbol that stands for one intention. You charge it with attention, then hide or destroy it so you stop rehearsing it.
Servitor
A small made helper with one task, attention on a schedule, and a way to stop it.
Egregore
A group helper made by shared attention, a name and a purpose.
Working
A complete practice: a purpose, a method, a record and an end.
Construct
Anything made to act on your behalf: a servitor, egregore, tulpa or daemon.
Seed
A short string that makes a generated result repeatable. Keep it with the card, sheet or record.
Feeding
Attention on a schedule: a review, an offering or a task. It is what keeps a servitor or egregore active.
Close
The planned end of a working: a date, a condition for stopping it and a gesture.
The glossary has the full vocabulary. If you want to make something now, start with Build.
A worked example
A servitor is easiest to understand as a complete object: a name, one task, a lifespan, a way to feed it and a way to close it. This one is generated from today's date.
From the Foundry · a sample
THA-SAI-KAI-3
Surface one useful contact each Friday.
- Task
- One useful contact, each Friday
- Lifespan
- Eight weeks, then close
- Seed
sample-2026-11-13
The toolkit
Ten ways in. Nine working tools take an aspect from the Grimoire — a planet, element, card, phase or day — and return something you can use: a glyph, a servitor sheet, a build brief, a reading, a charter, a card, a clock, a session, a ledger or a prompt. The tenth card opens the whole workshop as data.
A sentence, a planet or element, and a seed become a sigil, a charge card and a record line.
Specify a small made helper: one task, a name, a way to feed it and a way to stop it.
Combine a Grimoire aspect, a machine pattern and a form into a one-page build brief.
A question, an aspect and a glitch or random draw, with the reading recorded.
Write the purpose, shared sigil and closing date for a group project.
The twenty-four unequal hours for your location, the ruling planet and the kind of action each supports.
A timer, white noise and a log for a repeatable recorded listening session.
A local record of the helpers you make, what you give them and when you stop them. Exports as a text file.
A read-only API and a one-file copy of the whole workshop for building your own tools.
Turn a term from the Consciousness Lexicon, an aspect and a task into a copyable prompt with a test.
Start with an aspect
The Grimoire supplies the symbols; the workshop supplies the build. Pick a planet or an element, or open the Instrument Workshop to choose a card, phase or day.
Start with an activity
The catalogues are arranged by layer — a practice, the protocol that runs it, the instrument that does it and a worked example. If you already know what you want to do, start here: each opens on the practice, and that entry links the rest of its kit.
The sections
110 entries across 9 sections. The instruments and workings are the build; the practices, protocols and constructs are the method; the prompts are the language layer; the correspondences and glossary are the vocabulary.
Buildable tools and devices: what they do, what you need, how to build or use them, and a worked example. The interactive ones open a tool.
Repeatable practices: what they do, what goes in, what comes out, and a worked example.
Step-by-step procedures: what you need, when to do them, and what can go wrong.
Servitors, egregores, tulpas and daemons: what each is, how it is made, fed and ended.
A Grimoire aspect paired with a technical pattern, the instrument the pairing suggests, and a worked example.
Complete examples: what it is, what you do, what you need, how to test it and how to close it. Copy one, change a part, keep the test.
The workshop vocabulary: a short definition and a practical note for each term.
Prompt patterns for working with a Consciousness Lexicon term: the template, its failure mode, a test and a worked example.
Practical lineages: what each one is, what it builds, and the takeaway.
How a working goes
1. Choose an aspect
A planet, element, card, moon phase or weekday sets the tone. The Instrument Workshop will suggest a form if you do not have one.
2. Build the smallest version
One page, one script, one card. Use the instrument entries for the build and the code.
3. Give it a test and a close
Write the record before the result. Set the condition that ends it. Close on the date.
4. Keep the record
A plain text log is enough (one JSON object per line). The record is what turns a one-off into a practice.
The machine layer
AI is strongest at pattern: correspondences, variants, readings, summaries and test cases. It is weakest at the things that make technomancy a practice: choosing, charging and closing. The machine layer names where each belongs.
Why it sits here
Technomancy is the newer half of the same question the Grimoire asks of older symbols. A grimoire treats a sigil as a thing with a grammar: draw it, charge it, forget it, watch what follows. This workshop asks what happens when the sigil is executable, the circle is a network, and the spirit is a process that can be started and stopped.
The Grimoire is the vocabulary; this is the machine side. The tools read the Grimoire's planets, elements, cards and hours directly, and every instrument is a way back into the older grammar.
New entries, when they land
Occasional notes when a section of the grimoire is added or revised. No account, no tracking across sites, and one line to leave.